Maarten

@maarten

I operate at the intersection of music, technology, and education

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Did Charli XCX Go Mainstream, or Did the Mainstream Just Go Niche?

Tatiana Cirisano midiaresearch.com

MUSIC x and Fandom

A Short Introduction to Feral Technology

austinwadesmith.substack.com

MUSIC x

Unfree Agents

Liz Pelly thebaffler.com

MUSIC x and Music Tech / Future of Music

A still pertinent critique of Spotify, but also of platform-culture

Economic opportunities for our avatars | Social Mobility in the Digital Age | L'Atelier

atelier.net

MUSIC x and Music & Sustainability

The teens making friends with AI chatbots - The Verge

Jessica Lucas theverge.com

MUSIC x and Fandom

the act of interacting with chatbots compares to logging in to an anonymous chat room 20 years ago

COMPOST Issue 01: Sacred Servers by Zach Mandeville

one-compost-digital.ipns.localhost

Community building

The Modern Gala: How Latashá and C.Y. Lee Are Meming Patronage into Existence — Decential Media

MacEagon Voyce decential.io

“Amidst an exploitative music industry and extractive creator economy, could patronage nouveau become a blueprint for music’s future? Can Lee and Alcindor effectively instantiate their modern-day reprisal of a centuries-old relationship?”

Taylor Deupree and Joseph Branciforte on transcribing an electronic classic - CDM Create Digital Music

cdm.link

MUSIC x and Writing about music

Progressive Ownership: A Model for Application Tokens

Variant variant.fund

MUSIC x and Web 3 Business Models

We need to keep thinking about new ownership models, and crypto tends to force those on us