“HumAism is a practice in which the conversation between human and machine is itself the creative act. Where what emerges is neither fully human nor fully artificial but something new, something that neither could have made alone.”
Jonas Thorén
Multidisciplinary Artist
Brave Smart World™ · Brave Smart Music™ · Velvet Napalm™ · Marsington
When I began working with AI as a creative partner, something shifted. It changed my work, my thinking, and my sense of what was possible. I could not simply move on as if nothing had changed. I needed to name it, understand it, and find the words for it before I could go all in. So I started a sandbox project, and that is how Brave Smart World came to life.
Over time, all my co-thinking with AI led to a thought experiment we called HumAism, which later developed into the HumAi Manifesto.
HumAism spans all creative forms — music, visual art, video, writing, performance, sculpture and hybrid forms that did not exist before. The medium is irrelevant. The practice is everything.
Available for collaborations, research partnerships, talks and workshops, exhibitions, DJ/VJ performance, and media inquiries.
bravesmartworld@gmail.com
Disclaimer: I work mostly with Anthropic’s Claude, MS Copilot, Kling AI, and Suno, in combination with Photoshop, Camtasia, and Logic Pro. If an artist can show that their work was used in one of my productions, I will remove it.
Platforms
Spotify
Brave Smart Music & Velvet Napalm on Spotify — Released albums and singles, distributed through DistroKid under two artist names. For the full catalogue, sets and works in progress, see SoundCloud.
Brave Smart Music
Brave Smart Music — The open sandbox: any genre, any subject, made in dialogue with AI. Protest, satire, storytelling, mental health and education all live here, from verified facts set to music to full cinematic albums. Velvet Napalm is the personal side of the same practice.
Velvet Napalm
Velvet Napalm — My most personal project: every vocal built from a single source — my own voice, transformed by AI into one hybrid instrument. Any genre, any subject — tracks built from real grief, joy, protests, recovery, satire, and storytelling — all lyrics and concepts mine, written in dialogue with an AI co-writer. As human as it gets, using every tool needed in a HumAi-DAW workflow.
SoundCloud
Brave Smart Music & Velvet Napalm on SoundCloud — Albums, sets and singles across protest, satire, storytelling, mental health and education. Everything in one place.
YouTube
Brave Smart World on YouTube — Music videos and Shorts for the tracks, plus the original Marsington episodes, experimental audiovisuals and stories. AI-generated clips and HumAi VJ visuals, all in one place.
Brave Smart World on Instagram — Short previews of the music, videos and HumAism art. Reels, glimpses and work in progress, a quick way in before you go deeper.
Featured Projects
Human Rights Tracks
Verified facts on human rights crises and incidents, set to music. A growing series.
https://soundcloud.com/brave-smart-music/sets/human-rights-tracks
Marsington
Marsington — A novel and a film project in progress. A crew of cyborgs, former prisoners rebuilt to terraform Mars, a faceless corporation known only as The Company, and a Friday afterwork party that sets off a chain of consequences. Satire, science and pub-talk prose, written and visualised with AI as co-thinker.
Mental Health Albums
Social Anxiety, The 12 Steps, EDM & Mindfulness, Zenbient, Zenhouse, Zentrance, Taochno, Dubhism, and more.
Photo Mashups
My own photographs remade by AI, printed on paper, then drawn and painted over by hand. Some are photographed again and fed back to the AI, so the work keeps passing between hand and machine. Inspired by cyberpunk, sci-fi and the future we are heading into.
Sonicpedia
Verified knowledge set to music, from history (Anne Frank, Tibet) and science (Einstein, quantum physics, glucose) to animals and economics. Not made for memorizing. Made as a hook: an entry point that makes you curious enough to go and learn more.
EDM Musicals
Full-length cinematic albums that turn personal creative writing into musical stories. Spoken word, techno, trance and house, told chapter by chapter, track by track.
MindGames
MindGames — 2054. A bullied teenager locks his tormentors inside a virtual world with no logout. Nobody wins. Nobody gets out. Kraftwerk-style minimalism, adapted from my 2019 short novel.
Sculptures
Hand-carved sculptures in Swedish wood, mostly birch, made with knife, saw and chisel. Coloured with pencils and finished in layer after layer of varnish. Cyberpunk and sci-fi creatures and objects, begun as a counterweight to everything digital. Each one unique.
