MUSIC, FILM & R&D
AI in creative practice
Justin Scott Dixon / Voyager
Music, pictures and tools. AI expands what I can work with. I still listen, choose, direct and edit.
- Period
- Ongoing practice
- Contribution
- Artist
HISTORY & CONTEXT
The Unexpected
Direction
The story, film frames and my musical archive. Direction for the score.
Emotional continuity
Set the opening’s tone. Carry the audience between tension and vulnerability.
Editorial craft
Choose the cues, then edit to picture. Generation was part of it; the edit mattered.
HISTORY & CONTEXT
Creative systems
Music exploration
Source material, stylistic direction, repeated listening. Suno experiments shaped by selection.
Visual storytelling
PROXIMITY: character references, narrative continuity and storyboards. Planning production across models.
Everyday language
Make it clear. Keep my voice. No added context, no explaining what the words already say.
HISTORY & CONTEXT
Research into tools
Sound ReFormer
Sound ReFormer started with a production problem: reconstruct generated material as editable performance. That became an instrument-design investigation.
Repeatable methods
Document the prompts. Gather evidence. Build tools so the experiment can be reviewed and repeated.
Human direction
More precise expression, guided by experience and judgment.
COLLECTION CONTEXT
Unexpected
Unexpected brought my musical archive, sound work and editing into a feature film. This is how I worked on it. Public credits retain their published wording, including the uncredited music roles.
- Date
- 2026
- Format
- Feature-film post-production sound
- Contribution
- Post-Production Sound · Re-Recording Mixer · Supervising Sound Editor · Music / Music Supervisor — Uncredited
Directing the score
A musical foundation
My musical archive, the story and frames from the film. The starting point for AI-assisted score development.
Prompting and selection
ChatGPT helped articulate what the scene needed. Suno supplied musical material. I listened for what belonged.
Editing to picture
Then the edit to picture. Timing the cues, setting the opening’s tone, carrying suspense into vulnerability.
Creative range
Artist account
AI expanded what I could realize beyond what I could perform or produce alone. Taste, experience and judgment guided what stayed.
Emotional continuity
Prepare the audience in the opening. After the action, give the film somewhere to settle.
Process and credit
My account of the process. Formal screen credits retain their published wording.
Further reading
PUBLIC REFERENCES