Cypherpunk meets bluegrass: how Justin Holmes is transforming traditional music funding and distribution with blockchain

September 4, 2023 3:25 am | read 3 minutes

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St. Petersburg, Florida September 3, 2023 (Issuewire.com) — Bluegrass and ‘old time’ music have never quite fit the music industry paradigm of publishing and distribution. A team made up of bluegrass musicians and fans affiliated with the Threshold Network is betting that blockchain technology will get much better.

“In the early part of the 20th century, when Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson came from the mountains to play their music in American cities, they were driven primarily by one technological innovation: AM radio,” he says. justin holmes, whose album “Vowel Sounds” is set to be the first to be released on the new platform. “It is the same for creators of traditional music today, but the innovation that is now being questioned is blockchain technology.”

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The records will be encrypted using Threshold Access Control (TACo), and then distributed via BitTorrent and IPFS. Then, once Holmes fans contribute 10 ETH to the Revealer smart contract, a decryption key will be released, making the album available. Records will immediately go into the public domain under a Creative Commons license – and contributors will be rewarded with a “revealer artifact”, a special NFT that can unlock features and content on the Threshold network.

“The fact that so many mainstream bluegrass musicians have come forward to be a part of this project is incredible,” says Holmes. Among others, the record features IBMA Player of the Year Corey Walker, Jake Stargell, Christian Ward and Harry Clarke. “You can hardly get a better performance on planet Earth today than for a studio group, and this is the first time any of these guys will be presenting their work on-chain.”

This record marks the first time that some of Americana’s leading, kickass pickers have chosen to have on-chain representation.

As we sometimes see, this isn’t just a random inclusion of NFTs in existing music – instead, it’s a record written and recorded by a prominent cryptographic engineer who managed to make inroads into Nashville bluegrass .

This is why mainstream bluegrass musicians are choosing now to take on this type of project. And although it is hard to put into words precisely, it is clear that the conservative record industry is not representing traditional music in a way that is satisfactory to the people who study it and make it.

vowel sounds showcases the signature style of Justin Holmes, blending blockchain lyrics with a traditional bluegrass-style soundscape. The album consists of 10 tracks that explore themes of bankruns, surveillance, cryptography and more in fantastic cypherpunk styles.

“The concept of ‘ownership’ of a song doesn’t really fit into the conventions of bluegrass and old-time music, so it doesn’t make sense to say that an NFT represents ownership of a song. To participate in the Reveal, and those who do will receive a Revealer Artifact (an ERC-721) that can later be used to gain access to resources and unlock access to some of our live events. Can be done with other technologies.” Justin Holmes says

Vicky Vaughan says:

“Justin Holmes’ new record, Vowel Sounds, sounds like a trans-Atlantic space voyage into its own auditory world. With a masterful bluegrass sound bed, Holmes beautifully weaves lyrical themes of planetary respect, ancient singing pedagogy and freedom is and still remains fickle in all its complexity. [The description of vocal overtone solos explained and then employed is nothing short of fascinating. Holmes has proven he’s a master of fitting woodwind instruments onto a traditional Bluegrass canvas with his use of tin whistle, melodica and flute which impressively turns each instrument into an Appalachian adjacent voice.] After one listen, Vowel Sounds makes you eager to hear a follow-up project from this creative and mysterious human being!”

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For more information and updates, visit or watch one of Justin’s live performances at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIPOWFna9Wg&t=443s

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