Lute
What is
Lute?
Artist-centric live music platform,
Artist-curated streaming music service,
Ephemeral record label.
Global, live radio, with the opportunity to support real artists in real-time.
Craving a return to the Real…
At Lute, we want to give online music back to the musicians. We imagine a novel approach to live streaming where you're heard because you're talented, and for no other reason. Where listeners are transported to other places, to hear other people.
Stripped down performances from the heart—raw, not rough—rooted in the real.
Lute is for…
Musicians & Music Lovers.
Musicians, facing a crisis of discoverability, unsatisfied by low streaming payouts, constantly hustling to promote and produce the next concert-quality live stream, in search of transparency and fair dealing. Music Lovers, facing a tyranny of choice, unsatisfied by Top 40 lists, constantly shuffling away from songs they’ve already heard, in search of true discovery.
For info about performing on Lute, check out our FAQ for Lute Players. For details on what it’s like to listen, check out this guide.
Good tech is Human.
‘The central struggle…has ever been to understand one another… And it is this very thing that the machine helps us to do! It begins by annihilating time and space… To me, in France, a friend speaks from America…. Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures…our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing us together.’
-Antoine de Saint Exupery, ‘Wind, Sand, & Stars’
Our human commitments:
No targeted ads.
No selling your data.
No algorithms.
Transparent payouts.
Revenue sharing.
Sustainable Development.
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Curated is Cool.
Think of Lute as your favorite radio station you tune into when you just want to hear something fresh. The club you trust to bring in great acts, any night of the week. The indie record label you know will pick up amazing talent, regardless of what the rest of the industry is doing.
Lute is curated by artists, for artists, to provide fleeting, live performances from talented musicians around the world.
’Complete, incidental music.’
Get involved.
If you are a musician, music lover, producer, engineer, label owner, venue operator, tour manager, sound expert, instrument maker, A&R scout, patron of the arts, philanthropist, planet defender, people person, or otherwise, we want to hear from you! Use the form here or drop us a line directly.
nick [at] luteapp [dot] com
Washington Heights
New York, NY 10033
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All photography courtesy Montana Agte-Studier.