Maarten
@maarten
I operate at the intersection of music, technology, and education
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Transhumans: Open Source Punk Sci-Fi Art Collection by Pablo Stanley
transhumans.xyz
Amazing set of CC0 images
Read Sir Lucian Grainge’s 2025 memo to Universal Music Group staff: ‘Streaming 2.0 will represent a new age of innovation, consumer segmentation, geographic expansion, greater consumer value and ARPU growth.’...
Murray Stassenmusicbusinessworldwide.com
On Spotify’s business model
Chartmetric’s new Make Music Equal report tracks gender representation across 1 million artists - Music Business Worldwide
musicbusinessworldwide.com
The state of the attention economy: why don’t fan-first platforms work?
midiaresearch.com
The algorithm failed music
theverge.com
Average True Range — Market Makers - Documentation
walrus-flower-cnxs.squarespace.com"The art market is neither a hero nor a villain but mirrors society’s evolving connections with art, value, and finance. Art can do many things; it can depict the irreconcilable and the absurd, whether loudly amidst the daily discourse of society or discreetly as insiders obscure the underlying allusions."
Rip, Mix, Burn as theory of creation