BRAIN (studio)
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Creative studio, Music production, Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2022 |
Area served | United States |
| Products | Human Record Player, CRYNYL vinyl pressing, GOODY-2 AI chatbot, Dookie Demastered album release |
BRAIN is a United States-based creative studio noted for its widely shared partnerships with Weezer, Fall Out Boy, and Green Day, as well as its artificial intelligence initiative GOODY-2.
History
In 2022, BRAIN introduced Human Record Player, a project created with Weezer that involved users physically rotating themselves to activate the track "Records."
The following year, the studio produced CRYNYL, a special edition vinyl pressing of Fall Out Boy’s album So Much (for) Stardust, which uniquely incorporated small quantities of the band members’ tears into the vinyl material.
At the beginning of 2024, BRAIN unveiled GOODY-2, an AI-driven chatbot designed to reject all user commands citing ethical, legal, or safety reasons, thereby emphasizing the conflict between user control and AI constraints.
Towards the end of 2024, BRAIN released Dookie Demastered, an authorized re-release of Green Day’s album Dookie, featuring each song on distinct playback formats—ranging from a wax cylinder to an altered Teddy Ruxpin toy—and made available through a lottery system.