Appetite for Distraction

Stephanie Guerrero & Maarten Walraven

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Appetite for Distraction

Stephanie Guerrero and Maarten Walraven dissect all things music and tech. They ask each other the hard questions around the trends that everyone talks about.

06/28/2023

A rock solid conversation with Rae Isla

Steph and Maarten talk to Rae Isla about rocks, of course, middle class creators, a life before Web3 - and how that laid foundations of independence - and how she's circling back to more traditional music industry pathways, but now with a rock solid community behind her.

51 min
06/04/2023

An invitation to dream big with Natalie Crue

Steph & Maarten talk to Natalie Crue about crypto, music, non-profit, the metaverse, Web3 tools, and life hacks. It's a crypto music history lesson and an invitation to dream big into the future all at once.

44 min
05/12/2023

Riffing on gas

Steph and Maarten discuss the crazy gas fees and whether it's time to look at layer-2 blockchains or other layer-1 blockchains. The conversation veers into why it's so good to be an independent artist.

16 min
02/03/2023

Please, someone do something exciting in Web3

Yash and Maarten go on a little rant about the state of music in Web3

16 min
01/18/2023

Blockchain fundamentals & alternative models to funding with Dan Fowler

Yash and Maarten talk to Dan Fowler about the history and potential of blockchain tools for music. They touch on everything, from metadata to licensing, and from the artist-as-platform to supply-side disruption.

48 min
12/20/2022

Web3 power dynamics with Blaire Michael

Blaire Michael critically engages with the Web3. We hear enthusiasm for the opportunities that this new technology offers artists. Equally, we hear a wariness and a call for attention to the varying power dynamics at play in this growing ecosystem.

39 min
12/09/2022

On building trust with Robin Spottiswoode

Yash and Maarten talk to Robin Spottiswoode, co-founder of Nifty Music, about the current state of music & crypto.

47 min
11/18/2022

FTX fiasco & NFT creator royalties

Yash and Maarten talk about the FTX fiasco and secondary royalties on NFT marketplaces

24 min
11/05/2022

Community building in context

From community to fan theories like a 1000 true fans, everybody seems to agree that it's important to work on bringing people together around what you create. We go into why it's so difficult to actually put together a framework around community that more people can use and which scales. Moreover, a lot of the interactions between artist and fan become commercialized to the point where the fan becomes an investor. This brings its own sets of problems with it, and we dig into them.

20 min
10/21/2022

Music NFTs don't exist

Do Music NFTs actually exist? If they do, how should we utilize them?

13 min

10 Episodes

Stephanie Guerrero and Maarten Walraven dissect all things music and tech. They ask each other the hard questions around the trends that everyone talks about.

Creator

Stephanie Guerrero & Maarten Walraven
Years Active

2022 - 2023
Episodes

10
Rating

Clean
Copyright

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