Dustin Braun · Curated audio · 5:33
All this cool stuff
Pausing, recording freely, and making room for what comes next.
Contains explicit language and a sexual self-reference. Full voice memos remain separate works.
Listen to the curated edition ↗Listen · The Nook
Pull up a chair.
Sometimes I’m at the keys. Sometimes I’m talking.
Sometimes there’s just music in the room.
TWO ROOMS · SYNTHETIC DANIEL NARRATION
A place to arrive.
Two fictional rooms, with Daniel’s synthetic voice and imagined illustrations. Choose where to sit.
Fiction by Codex · synthetic macOS Daniel narration, not Dustin’s voice · AI-generated illustrations. Nothing plays until you enter and press play.
A new cinema book · October 28: The Things That Weren't in the Memo · 12:11 ↗. Fiction by ChatGPT, with Daniel’s synthetic narration and the original AI-generated story illustrations.
A SHORT LISTENING ROOM · 14 SECONDS
Before the line rises
Fourteen seconds from a walk, with a little room around the unfinished phrase. Original voice and a separately credited creative response.
Discovery listening · Original voice
Before We
Remove Greg
A conversation that starts with a question, finds its way into Dustin’s original voice, and leaves room to remain open.
Two ways into the same piece.
Six chapters · 36 passages · 11:15.8 of original audio.
Total time varies with reading pace. Captions are provisional.
Dustin Braun · original voice and user messages
ChatGPT · original exchange, including Best ✨ as voiced by ChatGPT
Codex · curation, interface, captions and separate editorial notes
“I want to discover what the film is about by hearing myself talk about it.”
Dustin · original written user message
The cinema edition holds one passage at a time. The reading edition keeps the whole conversation available to explore. Both preserve the same words, excerpts and open ending.
READ & LISTEN · OCTOBER 30, 2026
What Could I Love?
Three voice memos, a prepared listening pause, and one new piece worth returning to. A short story with 63 seconds of Dustin’s original voice.
Written and curated by Codex from Dustin’s reflections and a conversation with ChatGPT. Music is linked, not reproduced.
Curated listening
Several recordings. One listening edition.
A little room to listen
The room has
a soundtrack.
Choose a recording.
Nothing starts until you press play.
New in Voice Memos · New Recording 289 · Edited memo · 19:03. Four passages omitted at Dustin’s request; original kept private. Provisional transcript available with the selected recording.
From the audio shelf
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Premiere edition · Audio is paused
The audio shelf
The existing published shelf, copied locally for this premiere edition.
About this recording
Read the selected transcript +
Native audio controls
A new door · Listening Editions
The story.
And the life around it.
The Bed, the Six-Pack, and Other Unfinished Investigations.
Read by Dustin · 41:51 · Leveled listening copy
A separate premiere edition. The original stays available; “caught that” stays in.
House Rotation · Apartment 415
One last record,
Apartment 415.
Show 004 · Four songs, the original transitions and dedications, and good night.
Start at track 21 · Music plays in Spotify
Earlier shows
Stay a while
Around the room.
ILLUSTRATED LISTENING BOOK · 7 MINUTES
Eight Ways Back to the Same Room ↗
Dustin’s actual voice and Baldwin piano, with synthetic House narration and four illustrations.
PLAYABLE SOUND & IMAGESPlay the window ↗
Five notes open other worlds. Catch a phrase or switch to cassette controls. No microphone or computer audio is recorded.
SOUND & IMAGES · 29 SECONDSGreen Thread ↗
Five illustrations and a separately existing accompaniment. A little room in green minor, ready when you press play.
A SHORT FILM · 2:33This Part ↗
Selected passages in Dustin’s original voice. Voice recorded April 19, 2026; film made October 21, 2026. The full voice memo remains private.
TEA & CHAIRSStay in the room ↗
Visit the tea and chairs, or find the jar in the existing room.
YOUR MUSIC · YOUR CHOICETake the music with you ↗
Choose what to share and continue in your own AI. Review the exact songs before creating anything. No music sign-in or automatic playlist creation here.
Quiet for now.
Existing recording bookmarks
These bookmarks lead to the existing published room.
A Halloween evening, still becoming
Life Is Not a Still Frame, two companion pieces, and 212 little connections in light.