CASH Music: stands for Coalition of Artists and Stake Holders. CASH Music is a flexible platform through which creative stake holders — artists and audience — may interact and support one another through community. CASH believes that an engaged, participatory and supportive audience promotes a healthy, vibrant ’scene’ fostered around creative works.
Via CASH Music, the listener/fan is asked to interact with the Artist’s output, assess it, and be inspired by it, thereby enhancing it’s value. When value is realized, the listener/fan is asked to contribute accordingly — money, ideas, effort, or all of the above.
The listener/fan and the CASH artist share the common goal of the continuation of the creative process and artistic output. They describe it as a ‘read-write culture’ where the cumulative parts of the artistic enterprise — money, ideas, effort — enrich the total experience.
CASH supports distribution by torrent as part of a suite of ‘e-anticommerce’ tools — as well as a few other ‘nifty surprises’.
Currently CASH Music has three artists on it’s roster:
Kristin Hersh: kristinhersh.cashmusic.org
Donita Sparks + The Stellar Moments: donitasparks.cashmusic.org
Xiu Xiu: xiuxiu.cashmusic.org
I believe CASH Music is the closest thing we have seen to the ‘intellectual property as stock‘ concept previously mentioned by Terry McBride in WIRED (Wired 14.09: No Suit Required)…Artists offering shares in their enterprises which people will be able to make equity investments.
But probably the most important aspect of this concept is the opportunity for the listener/fan to build a more visceral connection to the Artist by actually having an ownership stake in the creative enterprise.
User-Funded CASH Music Label Triples Artist Roster | Listening Post from Wired.com
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