A true New Music Economy should not ask artists and audiences to leave one closed system only to enter another.
Better tools matter. Faster payments matter. Direct relationships matter. But if participation depends on staying inside one company’s platform, one marketplace or one speculative ecosystem, the underlying problem has not really changed.
Open rails mean artists and audiences can connect, exchange value and move between services without being trapped by a single gatekeeper. The interface can change. The community can change. The economic relationship should remain portable.
That is the direction worth exploring: not another digital enclosure, but infrastructure that gives people more freedom over how value moves.
We’re taking that conversation into the room at New Music Economy: Change The Game, Tramshed Tech, 30 July.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1993164926951
Better tools matter. Faster payments matter. Direct relationships matter. But if participation depends on staying inside one company’s platform, one marketplace or one speculative ecosystem, the underlying problem has not really changed.
Open rails mean artists and audiences can connect, exchange value and move between services without being trapped by a single gatekeeper. The interface can change. The community can change. The economic relationship should remain portable.
That is the direction worth exploring: not another digital enclosure, but infrastructure that gives people more freedom over how value moves.
We’re taking that conversation into the room at New Music Economy: Change The Game, Tramshed Tech, 30 July.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1993164926951
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