``` ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Sebastian Krüger · Stuttgart, Germany ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════╝ ```   Software engineer with a taste for the editorial. I build things that sit at the intersection of code, generative AI, and aesthetics — sometimes useful, sometimes beautiful, ideally both. Music runs in the background of most of my days.   --- ### The Web **[pivoine.art](https://pivoine.art)** · *Editorial magazine* An editorial magazine for AI-generated art and generative aesthetics. Where the machine learns to see, and we learn to look back. **[roux.pivoine.art](https://roux.pivoine.art)** · *Fashion journal* Slow publishing for a fast world. One hundred photographs at a time — a fashion journal that refuses to hurry. **[bar.pivoine.art](https://bar.pivoine.art)** · *Cocktail compendium* 425 recipes from the open cocktail dataset, served with AI-generated photography and a dark amber aesthetic. Client-side search, no server. Pull up a stool. --- ### Currently Reading (& Writing) **[Kaleidoskop](https://dev.pivoine.art/valknar/kaleidoskop)** · *Soon on Amazon* A German children's bedtime anthology — twelve independent stories, each paired with AI-generated watercolor illustrations. Written in Markdown, typeset with CSS, printed at 8.5 × 8.5 inches. A love letter to bedtime rituals, built with a surprisingly nerdy pipeline. --- ### Other Work | Project | What it does | |---|---| | [bitwig-mcp](https://dev.pivoine.art/valknar/bitwig-mcp) | MCP server for controlling Bitwig Studio via OSC | | [ableton-mcp](https://dev.pivoine.art/valknar/ableton-mcp) | AI assistants that play your Ableton sessions | | [kit](https://dev.pivoine.art/valknar/kit) | High-performance toolkit for developers & designers | | [magnific](https://dev.pivoine.art/valknar/magnific) | CLI for the Magnific AI upscaling API | --- ### Interests ``` AI & generative systems · editorial design · music production DAW automation · self-hosted infrastructure · print-on-demand publishing ``` --- Stuttgart · he/him · building in public, slowly, on purpose