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Silverstein

Silverstein brings a long history of recorded performance into BrainDrops. Fake Feelings, made with Dadabots, treats the band’s sound as material for a new machine-generated body of music.

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🎵 Fake Feelings
Official example from 🎵 Fake Feelings. Artwork © Dadabots x Silverstein.

From Burlington to a recorded archive

Formed in Burlington, Ontario, in 2000, Silverstein established its identity through When Broken Is Easily Fixed (2003) and Discovering the Waterfront (2005). The official biography describes a continuing expansion of that sound through Dead Reflection, A Beautiful Place to Drown and Misery Made Me. The band is a performing collective: Shane Told, Paul Koehler, Josh Bradford, Billy Hamilton and Paul Marc Rousseau. That history matters here because the collaboration begins with an existing musical identity and recorded corpus, rather than a fictional band invented for an NFT release. [1][2]

A collaboration built through listening

Dadabots describes Silverstein initiating the collaboration. Neural networks trained on the band’s music produced raw audio, with vocal sounds that resemble syllables rather than conventional intelligible lyrics. The published account describes roughly one hundred experiments and extensive human listening before the final selection of 1,000 pieces, totalling more than 26 hours. Generation and editorial selection are therefore equally important to the work’s production history. [3]

Fake Feelings in the band’s history

Released through BrainDrops on 16 January 2022, Fake Feelings shifts the scale of an album towards a distributed collection of short musical objects. BD5D reads its tension as one between a recognisable source and an unstable performance: the listener can encounter the traces of a band without hearing a normal studio take. Silverstein supplies the recorded musical identity, while Dadabots supplies the computational collaboration; the joint credit should remain visible. The release also broadens an early BrainDrops catalogue often associated with images into sound. [4]

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Collectors and attribution

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Artist names here are public release credits. Aliases and collaborations are resolved only where the credited record supports the relationship.

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Sources

  1. Silverstein — official biographyArtist, collaborator or presenting organisation · accessed 2026-10-13

    Career or process evidence; release-specific claims are cited separately.

  2. UNFD — SilversteinArtist, collaborator or presenting organisation · accessed 2026-10-13

    Career or process evidence; release-specific claims are cited separately.

  3. Dadabots — Fake Feelings: AI EmoArtist, collaborator or presenting organisation · accessed 2026-10-13

    Career or process evidence; release-specific claims are cited separately.

  4. 🎵 Fake Feelings — official release recordPlatform / primary · accessed 2026-10-13

    Official credit, description, launch date and reported supply; not an independent mint audit.

  5. BD5D collector ownership evidenceRead-only chain audit · accessed 2026-10-13

    balanceOf, tokenOfOwnerByIndex and ownerOf at one block for 52 selected wallets.

Authored by BD5D · AI-assisted research and editorial synthesis. Updated 2026-10-13.

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