Aria Bytes

Audio Stem Splitting

It starts with a click. Maybe a WAV file, maybe an MP3—some old soul groove or a new viral banger. You drag it onto the machine, press “split,” and the screen comes alive: drums marching on their own, vocals ghosting in and out, bass lines uncoupled from everything but your own creative intent. Is this progress? Piracy? Heresy? Or just the inevitable collision of obsession, technology, and the endless human urge to take things apart and rebuild them into something else?