Music thrives on intention.

Music is a commons to nurture, not a resource to mine.

Yet capitalism is slowly draining what we share. Digital platforms accelerate this, harvesting us, selling extraction back as "personalisation."

But harvested data contains only implicit signals, echoes of what we care about. Like Plato's cave, algorithms feed us shadows rather than substance.

We know this because we feel it. This disconnection is acute in art, but especially in music because music IS connection made physical, resonating in our ears.

It's being commoditised and turned into content. Music's value reduced to profit while our commons collapses, artists fall silent and Spotify serves royalty-free filler over human expression. We are consumers, not listeners. Forced to resonate at frequencies that are not ours.

What if tech resonated from us, rather than at us?

What would need to be different?

The answer lies in intention, made visible.

Extraction can be one sided, but connection requires mutual intention.

We must act with intention if we want vibrant culture. Art guides the way.

When a beautiful song touches us, we feel the artist's intention, their deliberate care flowing into our ears. We resonate with their expression.

When we intentionally signal care and attention for something, we attract others and calibrate together. The system begins to resonate from us, not at us.

Our world is a collective endeavour requiring cooperation through clear intention, not capitalism's invisible hand.

This is why I built Coral.

I believe rebuilding our commons requires platforms that allow us to cooperate both intentionally and transparently at scale.

Your coral, a collection of artists you back monthly, is a public signal declaring "music matters, this should exist".

The question is not "What do I get?" but "What can we create together?"

Coral is my signal.

Join me in tending music's commons.