A company named following the early-noughties convention of squishing the final syllable (think "Grindr", "Flattr", and othrs) doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
'Songtradr is a music marketing company that says it will "continue to operate Bandcamp as a marketplace and music community with an artist-first revenue share"'
It presents a series of sound works and recordings in which sound artists work with the listening act in existential finitude situations.
The artists were asked to create a sound work that can be heard by a person in existential finitude (in a relatively short period of time) or a sound work to be heard while someone dies or a sound work that the artists themselves would like to listen to while they die.
"Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through."
@acousticmirror
Unsure how I feel about a major open source library project actively working to fuel the development is proprietary AI that will be used unethically....
It's Saturday night in my corner of the planet, so it's time for me to come up with another crazy-ass business idea. This week, it's the Drunk Book Club.
We meet once weekly in your nearest 100 Montaditos. This week, we're drinking and reading (not necessarily in this order) Salomé Voegelin's The Political Possibility of Sound.