Perspectives in Music Arising out of Blockchain-Technology and Its Corresponding Research Strategies

Authors : Jan HEMMİNG

Pages : 177-206

View : 18 | Download : 10

Publication Date : 2018-09-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :For a start, let us take a look at one of the new services listed when search- ing the web for "music and blockchain". Results typically include Ujomusic, Peertracks, Revelator, DotBC, PledgeMusic, Musiconomy and more, some predominantly offering music, others primarily promoting new services for musicians and creative artists. Of course, these need not be seen in opposi- tion. I chose Ujomusic for the following examples. This was also the platform which hosted one of the earliest experiments simultaneously licensing and monetizing music from the British singer-songwriter Imogen Heap by using a blockchain. When preparing this article, the new album from the Portu- guese musician RAC was on offer: As I was planning to pay using a cryptocurrency, I had acquired an amount of Ethereum coins beforehand, but will not go into the details of how I did this here. These can be found elsewhere on the web and typically require a registration on one of the cryptocurrency-trading-platforms. For now, we only need to know that coins are stored in a virtual wallet which enables sending and receiving money similar to a regular bank account. You might also want to know why I chose Ethereum and not Bitcoin, for example. This will become obvious further down in this article.
Keywords : müzik, politika