It's been a few months now, but better late than never!
In December Louis-Louise Kay, one of our steward members, spoke to DIY Conspiracy about some of the bigger vision and bigger picture elements of Mirlo.
Built from the belief that the music industry no longer serves artists or listeners, Mirlo is pushing for a radical, federated, and decentralized reimagining of how music is shared online.
Check it out on their website.
We're particularly excited by this interview because it created a space for us to talk a bit more about the bigger picture, something that can easily get lost in the day-to-day of running and maintaining a music distribution platform.
…the thing is, we are firmly anti-hegemonic—anti “one big platform to rule them all”—so this is not the kind of battle we want to be fighting, and in that spirit we’ve been trying to reach out to other platforms and figure out ways to build things more cooperatively. We’ve already had many encouraging conversations with other likeminded platforms like Jam, Ampwall, or Bandwagon about figuring more of these things together and helping each other out. This is where the ethos of federation can also become useful to us, despite the context not being social networks or Mastodon.
None of this happens without the input of musicians and labels though and with this in mind, we’d like to invite expressions of interest from UK musicians and/or labels who might be free to participate in a London-based workshop centred around many of the subjects in this interview. Please drop us a line if you’re interested at our email address.
How does music making or listening fit into your community making practice?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://mirlo.space/team/posts/642