MUSICIAN AGREEMENT
All musicians that perform with Sonic Multiplicities should be aware of the implications and outcomes resulting from that choice.
A few notes before we begin...
It is the responsibility of each performer to understand and be able to operate within the technical concepts explained on this page.
All visitors to this page should expect to have their IP address logged in order to validate that they have read the information contained below.
Please email Andrew Grathwohl with any questions related to these matters.
Background
Playing Sonic Multiplicities music is a pretty sweet deal for the musicians who embrace the opportunity. Not only will you be a participant in one of the most exciting and revolutionary integrations of free improvisation and artificial intelligence out there today, you will also get a trick-ass audio master of your performance - and perhaps even more.
It has taken a lot of time, personal expense, and hardship to get the SM project where it is today. It challenges the current musical environment in more ways than the purely performative - we also take great leaps forward in how we treat rights, licensing, privacy, and even music releases.
Therefore, your participation in SM is bound to your understanding of the below information. We put this document together in order to provide the full scope of what performing with SM means.
SM performances have life-long implications. Your contribution to the SM training data will contribute to the outcomes of each and every musician that comes to perform on SM after you. Your own outcomes were very much dictated by the actions, choices, and decisions made by the performers that came before you.
Data We Ingest
Without exceptions, every single Sonic Multiplicities performance is thoroughly documented. This is the data we take in, and what we do with that data.
Before the Performance
Before any performance officially begins the SM software begins recording a 22 channel PCM audio file to disk. Performers should therefore expect to have their musical performance as well as their spoken conversations recorded to disk.
During the Performance
Audio data is analyzed and logged in real-time by the SM software. This analysis and logging data is saved to the SM's data storage backend, retained indefinitely for the purposes of training the SM machine learning implementations.
After the Performance
In addition to the real-time data collected, the SM machine learning implementations are trained on other data adjacent to the SM performance. This includes the precise date & time the performance took place, the GPS location of the performance, and the results of all API calls made before, during, and after the recording took place.
Licenses & Credits
All performers surrender their rights of music ownership and publication to Andrew Grathwohl, who also retains 50% of the compositional credit. The remaining 50% is split evenly between each participant in the recording.
Unless significant contributions were made, no performer may claim credits for production roles. Audio engineering, audio mixing, audio tracking, audio mastering, and all other such credits are assigned to Andrew Grathwohl.
Releases
Performers must understand that any and all Sonic Multiplicities recordings are viable for release for free on the official Sonic Multiplicities podcast feed, as well as other web endpoints that provide free audio streaming services such as the Multipli.city homepage and SoundCloud.
Andrew Grathwohl and Sacred Data, LLC retain exclusive rights to use SM audio recordings to produce new music releases, including physical CD & vinyl. These releases will be available on, in addition to the free resources listed above, paid digital streaming services and physical media.
Profits made from releases go directly into financing new opportunities for SM performance.
Performers with more than 20 titles under their belt (as listed on the Multipli.city homepage) are entitled to the use of SM funds for new experiments such as instrument modifications, equipment purchases, and accessories for the creation of new sonic palettes.
Performers with more than 50 titles are entitled to the use of SM funds to pay for travel, room and board expenses relating to new SM endeavors.