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Project Name: Parture

Website: https://parture.org/

Git: (still private until tokenomics have been validated)

Languages: Rust, WASM, Elm/React/*, Js, Avalance, Colony.io, TerminusDB

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION

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Parture is a decentralized protocol that aims to collect/generate digital sheet music for all music that was ever recorded, and make it available to all musicians for free, by aligning financial and social incentives. The total collection of structured sheet music is made queryable through a decentralized blockchain network allowing a myriad of applications to be built. The query fees are divided over the transcription contributors.

A problem for many musicians is that most sheet music simply doesn't exist, and there are no proper incentivizes on the internet for doing the work and sharing home-grown transcriptions. The compositional copyright issue also hinders the ability for centralized sites to stay online.

Parture keeps an index of all known music (like MusicBrainz), and tracks the progress of transcribing everything per artist, album, genre in a very project-management oriented way. Transcribers build up reputation (per artist and genre) and validation/moderation priviliges on Colony.io by transcribing music ("proof of work"). Transcribers earn tokens whenever their transcriptions are accepted into the main index and included in query results. Transcribers can create a profile for themselves highlighting their reputation earned per domain (the link to actual contributed data is unlinked using ZKproofs for privacy). Transcribers can organize themselves in groups/guilds to have little communities where the earned stakes are assigned to the guild (Colony.io sub-DAO).

Copyright's are managed by enabling blacklists in nodes in response to DMCA requests, reserving payments to rightholders, and have the Parture DAO buy up or license the composition rights of works available on the platform (analog to UltimateGuitar).

# Example applications that can be built on the platform include:

* mathematically correct genre definitions, based on the actual structure of music

* generation of a perfect genealogy tree of music based on "who was the first to do that chord/x ever in music?"

* calculate the structural/musical similarity between songs (useful in copyright litigation)

* conversion of all sheet music into any fringe format, i.e. Klavarskribo, Synthesia, Braille or any weird custom notation

* generating arrangements of any song to fit for use by a particular instrument with particular key requirements, like "generate 'Highway to Hell' to be played by violins"

* automatic generation of instructional music video's, where an AI character shows hand positions and guitar grips

Parture creates a (to be) open source stack of a blockchain node that hosts a customizeable (WASM core + whatever frontend) collaborative sheet music editor that works like Git, where transcriptions can be worked on in multiplayer (using CRDT's), branched, merged, versioned. The node can be used to create your own sheet-music based community like UltimateGuitar, Songsterr, MySongBook, Flat.io, SoundSlice, etc for free.

Whitepaper available on request.

Love to get in touch: https://forms.gle/5C5PRJpNx1QGx3a89 or https://discord.gg/PD3dw2vH