As of today, October 17th 2024, I am officially out of my pub deal.
After 5 years stuck in a less-then-ideal co-publishing agreement, I am now free. This document is an Option Warning Letter that my lawyer sent to my publishing company, giving them the allotted 20 business days to trigger their remaining option. Today marks the end of those 20 business days, so I am now finally out of the deal. :)
This agreement came to me at a time when I did truly needed it. I signed a record deal and publishing deal with this same company in 2019. The advance afforded me the runway to live and session in Los Angeles, and release my nearly-finished album at the time “The Mathematics Of Nature”. We wanted to work together mainly on the record deal side, since they were interested in prioritizing me as an Artist project as oppose to a Songwriter. But because my main point person worked on the publishing side of the company, that side of the deal was non-negotiable for them. And so I took it, even though my lawyer advised against it. He was right in a lot of ways, since now I am 5 years into the deal and still owe over 75% of the publishing advance back. That point person of mine also left the company many years back at this point.
Because of the way my deal was structured, I was able to send an Option Warning now. If they didn’t trigger it, I would be out of the deal for all future catalog. They do still have my back catalog up until now, and I hope to one day pay back that advance and start earning royalties off it.
It feels freeing to be out of this deal, knowing than any songs I write from today onward are mine and mine alone. I get to build up a fresh catalog that I can do whatever I like with.
With this, my focus turns more fully to the development of my onchain music catalog.
at a time it was an advanced technology... we're just in a light year time ahead from the "wells fargo" wagon network. keep going!
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the whole metaverse, discord server, online city thing had to cool down in 22/23. we were so sick of being forced into it, and finally the world was re-opening. we needed to breathe in fresh air.
but rest assured, $higher fidelity internet experiences will return. and they will show up having matured technically, socially and systemically
A few reasons I'm very excited about @zora's new protocol design:
• It makes released work feel perpetual: Some of my best music I haven't minted yet because it feels like you have to absolutely nail the primary mint, since after that it was effectively all over. With a liquidity pool coming online after mint, it feels like the market around the work exists forever. • An onchain creator royalty that feels natural: Secondary royalties on NFTs were offchain and socially enforced, until they lost that social game. With LP fees pointed back to the creator, we are using an onchain royalty that is a natural and useful incentive mechanism within the uniswap protocol to point value to creators directly from their works' markets. • Feels more fun: The added feeling that this work could light up into a valuable liquid market makes minting more exciting. Right now this excitement is at a fever pitch, but as this protocol upgrade settles into maturity, I think that feeling just becomes this added little spark to the experience.
Playing hopscotch
I was telling God watch
God wash me down I’m bleeding
My dad drank scotch on the front porch
I was never not home that season
I was never not cold still freezing
Still remember how to skate with the knees in
Taming my fool like I’m head of my school
Like I’m sitting at home with my feet up
I was never really all that bored
I was just tryna find my Isha
But now I’m busy chasing out visas
And I’m on my own with the easel ya
Say you put it off
Say you put it off everyday
A million years go by you’re still ok
Say you put it off
Say you put it off everyday
A million years go by you’re still
Bought it up quick and I let it all stick
So I couldn’t share shit with the outside
Get a little kick out of taboo
And boy do you feel like an outlier
I could never put out that fire
‘Til I let it burn
So make it all yours Ima make it all mine
Call this some initiation
Let it all sweat out of your pores
You’re the one you come face it
I don’t need shoes I’m ancient
I don’t take shape I’m—
Say you put it off
Say you put it off everyday
A million years go by you’re still ok
Say you put it off
Say you put it off everyday
No way
You better not say, you better not say
You’re better off falling
One day Ima be safe
I’ll be on TV stuffed in the margins
Don’t face any of those days
Any of those ways of a weak kid walking
Say you put it off
Say you put it off everyday
A million years go by you’re still ok
A million years go by you’re still ok
Dutchy I love how you use 'magical' in multiple comments here. I don't know if you fuck with this dude [flusser](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vil%C3%A9m_Flusser) but jamie sof put me on to his work 'towards a philosophy of photography' and he uses magical in a simillar way. im only through a couple chapters but it already feels like the best thing ive read on media and the blockchain. thanks for commenting :)
Beautiful to read.
To me, being able to cement music that's dear to your heart on the forever library is the valuable magic. Discourse, public sentiment have always been such a fickle noise signal, at the beginning and the end it always was and always will be the quiet personal journey that fuels the art of turning imagination and emotion through creative expression into something tangible in the real world. The amount of music I've created that I always didn't release or didn't love myself that ended up having deep impact on strangers changed my perspective on the value of resonance so many decades ago. It's why since I pivoted to smart contracts, I've maintained uninterrupted consistency and unwavering conviction in staying the course and never slowing down due to external factors like market price, sentiment, or public discourse. 120 1/1's on catalog since 2022 and I'm not even close to finished securing my back catalog. Things like Scarcity, Price, and all the "tradable asset" side of this technology aren't as important as the reason I choice to hard pivot in the first place.. A Forever Storage of Legacy tied to Context that will hopefully remain in tact long after I'm gone to serve as Proof of a lifetime of uninterrupted dedication, love and servitude to the love of my life. "Music"
"I Used to love H.e.r."
2021 feels so long ago sometimes. "I feel like we'll see something real again".
I think it's really worth asking why we put our best work out in 2021. Part of the answer is that a lot of the best musicians at that time were hired by platforms or started platforms to help build out the space. The platforms got really interesting but did less great work get put on them?
I don't personally thinking onboarding new users is particularly interesting until we can answer why our own output changed (at least for me) in quality and quantity between 2021-2024. Having a highly dedicated core of talented and engaged users is pretty cool - I don't understand the rush to onboard the rest of the world. I'm used to building for process instead of outcome; it's much more sustainable over time.
The track [I contributed to for songcamp season 2]( is one of my favorite things i've been a involved in.
"I've been know to never quit, even when nobody gives a shit"
for a while "still remember how to skate with the knees in" was the line that lodged itself like a splinter in my brain. a pigeon toed as a kid, I started skating and playing hockey to try and deal with it and needed to learn how to keep my feet parallel so i could skate backwards because they made me defense as i wasn't quite fast enough for offense and i've sorta felt like that in one way or another ever since. my daughter woke me up early today so i got breakfast down the street and waited for the typewriter store to open but the woman looked busy when i looked in the window so maybe i'll go back tomorrow and see if she'll sell me a typewriter. it really doesn't seem like she wants to sell anyone a typewriter despite running a typewriter store. there's whiskey around the edges of these verses - let it all sweat out of your pores. when i met matt for the first time i was 3 beers into it at the function. the night my wife's water broke i was on my third glass of whiskey and haven't had a drink since. i've put a lot of things off for a really long time.
im not even gonna touch the substance of what you're saying in the written piece here because i have so many thoughts about that moment and they're gonna come out in a really long thing I'll post later. but i wanted to share how the song makes me feel. also, this piece is so personal, and i don't think i was going to find that tone on my own but i wanted to get there. thanks for giving me a map.
Appreciate the trip down memory lane - agreed on the resonance and the special early feeling of a record feeling truly valuable and the energy behind that interaction.
Looking back at the bids takes me back to what the vibe was back then and makes me wonder how we get back there.
It's not gone forever - I think it just needs a reset.
Appreciate all you do and love the vibe of this post. Can't figure out how to mint it but has my full support!
the mintable mintality of minting is mint to mintion the mints and mintally minties as mint as possible in less than 1 mint. that mints that your minters and your mintuits are more than mintable in mintably sound condimints. mint i said before, mint as mint as you can. and minting will mint you minty more.
and then3 ppl mint this
after seeing you mint this
you make money
if you mint this
sunfire autumn
Fall in Montreal
Publishing Agreement Terminated [Redacted]
After 5 years stuck in a less-then-ideal co-publishing agreement, I am now free. This document is an Option Warning Letter that my lawyer sent to my publishing company, giving them the allotted 20 business days to trigger their remaining option. Today marks the end of those 20 business days, so I am now finally out of the deal. :)
This agreement came to me at a time when I did truly needed it. I signed a record deal and publishing deal with this same company in 2019. The advance afforded me the runway to live and session in Los Angeles, and release my nearly-finished album at the time “The Mathematics Of Nature”. We wanted to work together mainly on the record deal side, since they were interested in prioritizing me as an Artist project as oppose to a Songwriter. But because my main point person worked on the publishing side of the company, that side of the deal was non-negotiable for them. And so I took it, even though my lawyer advised against it. He was right in a lot of ways, since now I am 5 years into the deal and still owe over 75% of the publishing advance back. That point person of mine also left the company many years back at this point.
Because of the way my deal was structured, I was able to send an Option Warning now. If they didn’t trigger it, I would be out of the deal for all future catalog. They do still have my back catalog up until now, and I hope to one day pay back that advance and start earning royalties off it.
It feels freeing to be out of this deal, knowing than any songs I write from today onward are mine and mine alone. I get to build up a fresh catalog that I can do whatever I like with.
With this, my focus turns more fully to the development of my onchain music catalog.
☀️
Peace & Quiet
Test_001 (start)
vet visit wtv
Selfie
Lucy on stairs (2024)
(c)rest
Tuesday
horse & buggy energy fr
just opened a trad bank account
but rest assured, $higher fidelity internet experiences will return. and they will show up having matured technically, socially and systemically
the whole metaverse, discord server, online cities thing had to cool…
You make Ether by making Ethereum
I really like music. And I really like Ethereum.
crypto music is destined for greatness
and i don't intend to do it for all replies but it's fun to do rn to you :)
(replying, again, to @songadaymann and @zora)
no i am doing this manually
yes, really.
a great halloween costume idea is @jessepollak tbh
going forward, all my tweets will be minted on @zora
Providence
• It makes released work feel perpetual: Some of my best music I haven't minted yet because it feels like you have to absolutely nail the primary mint, since after that it was effectively all over. With a liquidity pool coming online after mint, it feels like the market around the work exists forever.
• An onchain creator royalty that feels natural: Secondary royalties on NFTs were offchain and socially enforced, until they lost that social game. With LP fees pointed back to the creator, we are using an onchain royalty that is a natural and useful incentive mechanism within the uniswap protocol to point value to creators directly from their works' markets.
• Feels more fun: The added feeling that this work could light up into a valuable liquid market makes minting more exciting. Right now this excitement is at a fever pitch, but as this protocol upgrade settles into maturity, I think that feeling just becomes this added little spark to the experience.
A few reasons I'm excited
FORM [VISUAL]
ima be safe
ill be on tv stuffed in the margins
Form
Produced by Rabitt
minteddd and folowed man
Simple enjoy the mint
$Higher
Floodgates
guitar (still)
TREASURE
so beautiful 55555 $enjoy
i suppose it's a fragrance (instrumental)
olfaction traction 77777 $enjoy
beautiful 50000 $enjoy
FORM & FUNCTION
Best if viewed on INPUBLIC.FUN
I think it's really worth asking why we put our best work out in 2021. Part of the answer is that a lot of the best musicians at that time were hired by platforms or started platforms to help build out the space. The platforms got really interesting but did less great work get put on them?
I don't personally thinking onboarding new users is particularly interesting until we can answer why our own output changed (at least for me) in quality and quantity between 2021-2024. Having a highly dedicated core of talented and engaged users is pretty cool - I don't understand the rush to onboard the rest of the world. I'm used to building for process instead of outcome; it's much more sustainable over time.
The track [I contributed to for songcamp season 2]( is one of my favorite things i've been a involved in.
"I've been know to never quit, even when nobody gives a shit"
thank you for the paper so i could scribble a lil map down
im not even gonna touch the substance of what you're saying in the written piece here because i have so many thoughts about that moment and they're gonna come out in a really long thing I'll post later. but i wanted to share how the song makes me feel. also, this piece is so personal, and i don't think i was going to find that tone on my own but i wanted to get there. thanks for giving me a map.
Appreciate the trip down memory lane - agreed on the resonance and the special early feeling of a record feeling truly valuable and the energy behind that interaction.
Looking back at the bids takes me back to what the vibe was back then and makes me wonder how we get back there.
It's not gone forever - I think it just needs a reset.
Appreciate all you do and love the vibe of this post. Can't figure out how to mint it but has my full support!
this is a test nft but you should still mint it
BAD [bad]
colorful indices trying to get through
This NFT is for LATASHÁ
100% creator earnings from this NFT pay out directly to a secure wallet under LATASHÁ's control.
This won't make up for the horrible feeling that something like this produces, but we can at least counteract some of it with some good vibes!! ❤️🌟💫
You can have my humble enjoy allowance too
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this NFT is $1
How cool is that!?
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Higher
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Tender (prod. Rabitt)
enjoy - matthew chaim (prod. rabitt)
Download the stems, remix & enjoy: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gnO-bYOc7AIN-KwHXW6XZMkGadvS8vew?usp=sharing
so cool
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PS. I enjoy your work ❗️❗️❗️
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do you enjoy music?
leave your ideas for the song in the comments as well! we’ll include our favourite ones. enjoy :)
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fresh media
guilded and transfixed
fun fact this is the first song i ever uploaded to audius - via a pseudonymous artist account - on january 18 2021. so yeah, many moons ago.
Salt
Written by Matthew Chaim & Jason Yik Nam Wu
Produced by Rabitt
Mixed by Brandon Unis
Artwork by Mac Pogue
Daily Grind - PFP
PFP of the song 'Daily Grind', first song from the debut album 'Juan & the Pursuit of Happiness' by Dontmesswithjuan.
Original artwork by Abraham Merr
PFP made for Matthew Chaim, thank you <3
MAY_ALL_BEINGS_BE_HAPPY.PDF
NEW MOON PAGES.
POWERFUL GRACE PAGES.
THE WILTERN VISIONS.
GRATEFUL, THANKFUL PEACE PAGES.
WISE MOTION PAGES.