“I’m really into this idea of authentic fakes,” Tim Boucher tells me over Zoom in early October. He’s sitting in a cluttered but sunny garage, surrounded by hand-woven baskets he made himself. His oceanic blue eyes are alert, regularly darting across the room, up to the heavens, then back to the screen. We’re about halfway through a lengthy and verbose conversation about AI , and I’m struggling to keep track of his names.

You may know him better as Andrew Frelon .

When I initially reached out to Boucher, he was transitioning from the Frelon character — a self-proclaimed “spokesperson” of the psych-rock AI “band” The Velvet Sundown — to “talent” himself, as the generator of 40 albums released in 30 days under the name Sutem Min.

Over the summer, The Velvet Sundown took streaming se

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