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

Direct artist support matters most when the value arrives as something useful—not as points, a project token or an asset that must be traded before it can be spent. That changes the relationship. The fan supports the artist directly. The artist receives value without being locked into another speculative loop. The implementation matters, but so does the principle: hard money, open rails and fewer layers between community and creator. New Music Economy: Change The Game — 30 July, Tramshed, Woolwich. 🟠🎶 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1993164926951

Primal broken on both phones…again. 😞

Haha! Need spare phones for relays 🤣

🫡🫡

😂😂😂

🧡🫡👊

👊🫡