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A comic-style illustration of a street scene in Northern California at night in 2010, featuring two cars stopped at a red traffic light. A black man wearing sunglasses, a racing jacket with '500' patches, and gold chains is leaning out of one car, smiling and listening to music. A white man with furrowed brows is driving the other car, looking angry. Musical notes are emanating from both cars, indicating they are playing music.

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A judge in a red robe with gold trim and a gavel is about to strike it, surrounded by riot police with shields and batons, and a frightened young girl sitting in a jail cell.
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An animated illustration of a music production studio with three characters. One older man with gray hair and beard, arms crossed, stands smiling in the background. A young boy with blond hair, bandage on his face, pointing excitedly, is in front of a man in a helmet and gloves, who is working at a computer with musical notes flowing around. The studio is filled with monitors, keyboards, and audio equipment.
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A futuristic spaceship flying through space with bright lights and stars. Below, an older man and a young boy are in a room with large windows, wearing goggles and waving.
A comic book scene of a woman in red combat armor firing a weapon at a large mechanical robot, with an explosion behind them. A man in black is seen in the background, appearing to be trapped or in distress as the building around them is destroyed by fire and rubble.
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About O.W. Serellus

In 2007 a man sat down and wrote a story about a world where creativity was criminalized. Where a computer could generate music directly from human thought. Where one entity owned 90% of all entertainment and used that power to control what people felt, believed and imagined. Where artists disappeared. Where an algorithm decided what the world was allowed to hear.

He had no idea he was writing the news.

That man is O.W. Serellus. And the book is The Funk Sonatra Project.

Written nearly two decades before AI-generated music became a dinner table conversation — before streaming algorithms began deciding which artists the world would ever hear — the story was already there. Waiting.

Music has always been more than sound and rhythm. It is freedom. It is culture. It is resistance. In The Funk Sonatra Project creativity itself is outlawed. Even thinking of a funky rhythm is dangerous and could land you in the Ignoritis Machine. In 2007 Serellus envisioned music being created through AI — not even knowing that technology would one day be called AI. Today we are watching that vision become reality in real time.

This is not a warning. It is a map.

Serellus is not here to tell you what is right or wrong about where music and technology are headed. He is here to ask the questions nobody in the industry wants asked out loud. To spark the conversation that needs to happen before the window closes. To explore what happens when artistry, technology and control intersect — and what it means that one book predicted it all eighteen years ago.

The Funk Sonatra Project. Written 2007. More relevant today than the day it was finished.

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