BPM-001 OWNER'S MANUAL

Back
Pocket
Music.

Building the tools that should already exist. Mostly in a browser. Mostly on purpose.

Rev. 2026.03 Traverse City, MI Status: Powered On 7 Active Projects

⚠ Safety Information

01 — Portfolio

The BPM
Family.

Companies, tools, and experiments operating under the Back Pocket Music umbrella.

Audio Processing / Tools

Retroizer

Give your audio the warmth it deserves. Tape saturation, lo-fi degradation, and vintage character — all in the browser.

retroizer.com ↗

Artist Label / Sister Company

Interactive Music Systems

The sister label of Back Pocket Music. Artist-focused, always searching for incredible talent that wins hearts and minds.

interactivemusicsystems.com ↗

Satire / Creative

Corporate Apology

Because sometimes a brand needs to say sorry — and it might as well sound good. AI-generated corporate contrition, scored and delivered.

corporateapology.com ↗

Music / Performance

KBD Trio

Where the instruments are weird and the arrangements are weirder. A performance project at the intersection of composition and experimentation.

kbdtrio.com ↗

Community / Meetup

TC Audio

The Traverse City Audio Collective — a monthly gathering for audio nerds, musicians, sound designers, and anyone who thinks too hard about speaker placement.

tcaudio.co ↗

Visual / Ambient

Tubez

A fireplace screensaver for people who think in signal path. Glowing vacuum tubes, oscilloscope drift, and the warm hum of analog electronics — all in the browser.

Launch Tubez ↗
02 — AI Studio

We taught the
machines to
listen.

Browser-based AI tools for audio creation.

🎙

ElevenLabs V3 · Kie.ai

Dialogue
Lab

Multi-speaker voiced dialogue with emotional direction. Assign voices, write lines, drop in emotion tags — [excitedly], [whispering], [sighing] — and generate expressive audio from the ElevenLabs Text-to-Dialogue V3 model. 80+ voice characters. 70+ languages. Built for game audio prototyping, podcast intros, and scenes that need a soul.

Multi-speaker Emotion tags 80+ voices
🎵

Suno V4 · Kie.ai

Suno
Studio

Full music generation with the complete Suno API via Kie.ai. Generate from prompts, extend tracks, replace sections, upload and remix your own audio, strip vocals, generate covers. The full production workflow — not just generation. Style tags, custom lyrics, negative prompts, and V4/V4.5 model selection.

Suno V4 / V4.5 Extend Section Replace Vocal Remove Mashup
🤖

Claude Sonnet · Anthropic

AI
Composer

Describe a mood, a reference, a feeling — get production-ready prompts for Suno, ElevenLabs, and other AI music tools. Claude reasons like a composer and speaks the language of the models. Powered by the same frameworks behind Songwright, now directly in the browser.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Suno prompts Dialogue scripts Style analysis
🌊

Stable Audio 2.5 · Stability AI

Stable
Audio

Text-to-audio generation explicitly trained for cinematic and game audio use cases. Detailed instrumentation prompts, sound design, hybrid music/SFX. Enterprise-grade sonic results from Stability AI's flagship audio model.

Stable Audio 2.5 Cinematic SFX + Music
Coming Soon
03 — The Lab

Six instruments
that got
out of hand.

Browser-based audio tools. Web Audio API + Tone.js. No installation. No server.

Gravitational

Polyrhythm Galaxy

Planets on orbits. Orbits as time signatures. Wait for the Eclipse Event.

Live

Subtractive

Silence Sculptor

Start with noise. Chisel away at a radial disc until the groove emerges.

Live

Human Feel

Drift Clock

A clock that drifts. Apply emotional presets. Watch your grid develop a personality disorder.

Live

Stochastic

Probability Garden

Generative melody through probability. Tiered note selection. Controlled randomness.

Live

Phase Relationships

Phase Mirror

When two waveforms align — or don't. The physics of interference made visible.

Live

Acoustics

Harmonic Aligner

Morph between 12-TET and pure just intonation. Hear the beating frequencies dissolve.

Live

All tools run in the browser. No installation. No account. No waiting.

Open Full Lab →
04 — Field Notes

Experiments,
accidents,
and things that worked.

Dispatches from the frontier of AI music and browser audio.

2026 — Ongoing

Conversational Control of Audio Software via MCP

Using the Model Context Protocol to bridge AI reasoning with Wwise WAAPI. Speak to your tools in plain English. Query project state, batch-edit parameters, and build audio events conversationally. Yes, it's exactly as fun as it sounds.

MCP · Wwise · AI

Sep 2025

From Instrumental to Anthem: AI-Powered Finishing

A back catalog of released instrumentals, always feeling incomplete. Fed them to Suno's Remix feature as professional-quality source material. The principle: garbage in, garbage out. The results: genuinely startling. Every track presented raw, no DAW.

Suno · Experiment

2025 — Ongoing

Micro-Tuning for Alternate Tunings

Extending sweetened tuning beyond standard guitar. Browser tools that calculate optimal cent offsets for DADGAD, Open G, Nashville — any system. Because equal temperament is a compromise and you're not a compromiser.

Acoustics · Tuning

2024–2025

13 Months, Thousands of AI Songs, One Framework

The research behind Songwright. Systematic experimentation with source-first production methods, translating the vocabulary of professional composition into descriptors these models can act on. The patterns that emerged became a product.

Research · Songwright
05 — Signal Source

Tools for composers
who think
in systems.

I've spent 17 years designing music systems for games at PlayStation Studios — scores for The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Journey. Grammy-nominated, BAFTA-recognized work that taught me one thing above all else: the best music happens when you build the right system and then get out of its way.

Back Pocket Music is where that philosophy lives outside the studio. I build tools at the intersection of music theory, acoustics, and AI — not to replace the composer, but to remove the friction between the idea and the sound.

Conversational control of audio middleware. Browser instruments that make complex musical concepts playable. Prompt engines that translate feeling into production-ready direction. Everything here is built with the same conviction: if a tool should exist and doesn't, build it.

The best creative technology is the kind that disappears — leaving nothing between you and the music except the decision to press play.

tedkocher.com ↗ ted@tedkocher.com

Focus Areas

  • Interactive Music Systems
  • MCP for Audio Software
  • Acoustics & Tuning
  • Browser Audio Tools
  • AI Music Production
  • Adaptive Scoring

Stack

  • Web Audio API
  • Tone.js
  • Vanilla JS
  • Claude / Anthropic
  • ElevenLabs
  • Suno via Kie.ai

Design Philosophy

  • Offline-first
  • Single-file when possible
  • Beginner-friendly
  • Copy / paste deployable
  • No venture capital

Credits

  • 3× Grammy Nominated
  • 4× BAFTA Recognized
  • 50+ Shipped Titles
  • PlayStation Studios
  • 17 Years AAA

Caution

Back Pocket Music L.L.C. is not responsible for: decisions made while listening to generative ambient at 2AM, the realization that all music is just air vibrating, or the sudden urge to buy a modular synth you cannot afford. No refunds. No returns. No equal temperament.