And here’s the meta-shift:
As AI music evolves, entirely new perceptual categories will emerge — textures we can perceive but not yet lexically anchor. When that happens, the engineer’s role becomes almost philological: you will coin terms for experiences that did not previously exist.
The frontier of sound engineering is not plugins.
It’s vocabulary.
Develop a lexicon the way a luthier develops calluses.
Sound is not just heard.
It is described into existence.
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