Why, absolutely! How would one go about that? I honestly have no idea, or perhaps less than no idea.
I recently learned about NLNet grants and they seem like the first funding body that I find applicable to the sphere and scope of my skills and interests.
Regardless of my pretty out there former experience with grantfarming, still I’d rather prefer looking into something that alongside collaborators to keep me grounded. (More reliable ones this time, I would hope.) Because I bet the proverbial farm on not learning to see how the “big money people” do, and thus couldn’t fathom what they’d actually like to see – or indeed how they ended up with so much money if the idea is for us to tell them what they want (as is often the case with the entire concept of retaining a knowledge worker out here in the outskirts of Orkland…)
NLnet in particular does seem like a realistic way for me to fund a certain backburner project of mine, one that is not music-specific, rather in general interest of the Web; and particularly the transparently decentralized parts of it such as APub, ATProto, or Nostr – but good old HTTP is also fine. (Details over E2EE.)
Hackery aside, purely temporal media-wise: I would love to do some form of artist residence at some point in my life. However, as that would presumably involve demonstrating results – which for me would preferably take the form of a live musical performance – it’s also contingent on completing my present tool-building arc. I’m generally unfamiliar with the whole process of negotiating such a thing into existence, I don’t think I could become good at that fast enough, though stranger things have happened.
Being the faceless fixer for the artists actually making names for themselves feels… safer, I guess? I have no need to put myself out there – just my thoughts and my work.
So, if anyone is giving out grants for spiteful schizotypals to stay out of the culture, well sign me up – it’s what my present poorly gilded handcuffs amount to, anyway 