This piece was written in early 2019, commissioned by the V-A-C Foundation Moscow for their “Time, Forward!” show at the Venice Biennale. I came across it while going through files and thought it might be useful to post here, in light of exciting experimentation happening with tokenized DAO and Guild…

Posting text to this slide I use to explain some distinctions between the two. By no means comprehensive but hopefully of use. INDEPENDENT MUSIC LISTENERS RENT MUSIC FOR PENNIES ON STREAMING PLATFORMS ARTISTS RENT LISTENERS FOR AD DOLLARS ON AD PLATFORMS ISOLATED ARTISTS MAKE TUNES IN THEIR BEDROOMS FOR ISOLATED LISTENERS IN THEIR BEDROOMS “HUSTLE”…

https://soundcloud.com/ctm-festival/ctm-2019-protocolsduty-despair-and-decentralisation?in=ctm-festival/sets/ctm-2019-persistence Just dumping the transcript from this talk given at CTM:Persistence here, if you prefer to read stuff. The end gets messy as it was largely adlibbed. Gratitude to Liz Pelly, who has made haranguing Spotify the newest and most exciting genre of music journalism. …

I’ve been thinking about this a lot since the recent, somewhat unsurprising, news of Soundcloud’s troubles. My intention is to put these thoughts out there, but also to run a temperature check on how people respond to the idea of tokenization in musical communities in general. I’ll continue to add…