This grant will help fund the continued creation of:

Samples for SEEDS DAO

SEEDS DAO is an increasingly decentralized music samples DAO. The purpose of the DAO is to scale global music collaboration by creating CC0 compositions that can be remixed freely. 80% of proceeds go to the treasury in order to help it's proliferation. So far funding has been slow but the music is getting used around the world. 3 full projects have been made (1 of those coming early next year), many songs released and tons of beats created and sent in.

Here's a Spotify playlist for the first year.

CC0 & open source generative music projects

So far I've created Infinite Branches and Particles. Both projects are open source code and CC0 music (completely in the public domain). Infinite Branches created an algorithm for harmonically resolving chord progressions and Particles has 5 different melodic creation algorithms. More projects to build out open music creation are in the works to continue building out adn refining the generative music code base.

Onchain database(s)

By creating a standard for open databases and publishing onchain, links and content hashes become way more accessible for other onchain projects' usage. For example, an onchain database for links to SEEDS samples, stems, bpm/key and other information becomes available for generative projects to access and remix algorithmically. This kind of open and modular accessibility needs to be highlighted and built on to show the value of onchain data.

All these projects are continuing as fast as possible but funding remains a huge impediment to the pace while the market hasn't yet understood the potential Open Music has.

This grant can massively boost the productivity of these projects and also serve as a signal to other creators of how valued the work is and encourage them to build in an open & modular way as well.