
Arpeggi Labs raises $5.1m led by a16z crypto to build open-source music creation
As the world becomes increasingly digital, our ability to collaborate and build on the ideas of others has never been easier. Technology has led to a creative explosion for many artistic mediums, but today’s outdated music infrastructure hinders artists from the natural creative process of sharing music for reuse and iteration. Tracking down rights holders, papering legal agreements, exploiting licensing fees… We started Arpeggi Labs to create a better way to make music. Arpeggi is building w...

A Year in Review
A year ago today, we set out to revolutionize the way music is created, transformed, and shared online. Music-making has always been collaborative, but recent advancements in cryptographic technology have opened up new possibilities for decentralized, permissionless collaboration over the internet, and that’s when Arpeggi comes in. We created a brand new DAW, built natively on-chain, to pull from and contribute to a freely-licensed sound library where attribution is automatically tracked and ...

Kits AI: Your Voice, Your Terms
The State of AI Voice ModelsOver the last few months, AI voice conversion technology has led to an explosion of music made in the likeness of some of the world’s most popular artists, from Drake and The Weeknd to Grimes. This new technology has the potential to be one of the most revolutionary tools in music history, but it presents major challenges for artists.Artist control: Unofficial, unlicensed AI voice models let anyone say anything in an artist’s voice, with no way for artists to regul...
Music creation for the next generation: Arpeggi Studio & Kits

Arpeggi Labs raises $5.1m led by a16z crypto to build open-source music creation
As the world becomes increasingly digital, our ability to collaborate and build on the ideas of others has never been easier. Technology has led to a creative explosion for many artistic mediums, but today’s outdated music infrastructure hinders artists from the natural creative process of sharing music for reuse and iteration. Tracking down rights holders, papering legal agreements, exploiting licensing fees… We started Arpeggi Labs to create a better way to make music. Arpeggi is building w...

A Year in Review
A year ago today, we set out to revolutionize the way music is created, transformed, and shared online. Music-making has always been collaborative, but recent advancements in cryptographic technology have opened up new possibilities for decentralized, permissionless collaboration over the internet, and that’s when Arpeggi comes in. We created a brand new DAW, built natively on-chain, to pull from and contribute to a freely-licensed sound library where attribution is automatically tracked and ...

Kits AI: Your Voice, Your Terms
The State of AI Voice ModelsOver the last few months, AI voice conversion technology has led to an explosion of music made in the likeness of some of the world’s most popular artists, from Drake and The Weeknd to Grimes. This new technology has the potential to be one of the most revolutionary tools in music history, but it presents major challenges for artists.Artist control: Unofficial, unlicensed AI voice models let anyone say anything in an artist’s voice, with no way for artists to regul...
Music creation for the next generation: Arpeggi Studio & Kits

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From the moment we first met Sassy on Twitter Spaces, it was clear her voice was of tremendous value to Arpeggi and the broader web3 music space. While Sassy is an experienced musician and producer in her own right, her reach and influence extends far beyond. Sassy’s desire to increase accessibility and inclusion in the music creation process is a core tenant of Arpeggi’s mission to address the lack of representation within both music production and the NFT space.
As our community grows, it’s important to have an artist like Sassy to represent Arpeggi and welcome new musicians into our space. Building Arpeggi is an opportunity to build a new music creation ecosystem more open source and inclusive than the old paradigms, and Arpeggi is thrilled to welcome Sassy to the team to help lead this effort.
For more information about Sassy and her background, a brief bio can be found below. To connect with Sassy, follow her on Twitter @SassyBlack_.
SassyBlack is a multifaceted creative force with a focus in the performing and literary arts. Hailing from Seattle, this Goddess of “psychedelic soul” & “hologram funk” explores sound through deep electronic compositions.
A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, Catherine has fostered a thriving solo career, writing, composing and producing all of her music with over 17 projects released since 2014. In addition to her own compositions, she has composed music for Microsoft, WNYC, University of Washington, 5th Avenue Theatre (15 Minute Stories) and the film Seattle Women Black Panthers: Keepers of the Dream.
Along with her music, which has been featured on Adult Swim, BET’s Twenties, TNT’s Claws as well as the Michelle Obama Spotify Playlist Vol. 1, her acting prowess has been featured on HBO’s Vinyl and Comedy Central’s Broad City. Her musical journey is available for listening and purchase through Bandcamp, Spotify & all other streaming platforms.
Sassy is currently writing her first musical as part of the 5th Avenue Theatre’s First Draft program as well as completing two new EPs to be released in 2022. Newly navigating the NFT world, Sassy is excited to join the Arpeggi Labs team as the Head of Artist and Community Partnerships.

From the moment we first met Sassy on Twitter Spaces, it was clear her voice was of tremendous value to Arpeggi and the broader web3 music space. While Sassy is an experienced musician and producer in her own right, her reach and influence extends far beyond. Sassy’s desire to increase accessibility and inclusion in the music creation process is a core tenant of Arpeggi’s mission to address the lack of representation within both music production and the NFT space.
As our community grows, it’s important to have an artist like Sassy to represent Arpeggi and welcome new musicians into our space. Building Arpeggi is an opportunity to build a new music creation ecosystem more open source and inclusive than the old paradigms, and Arpeggi is thrilled to welcome Sassy to the team to help lead this effort.
For more information about Sassy and her background, a brief bio can be found below. To connect with Sassy, follow her on Twitter @SassyBlack_.
SassyBlack is a multifaceted creative force with a focus in the performing and literary arts. Hailing from Seattle, this Goddess of “psychedelic soul” & “hologram funk” explores sound through deep electronic compositions.
A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, Catherine has fostered a thriving solo career, writing, composing and producing all of her music with over 17 projects released since 2014. In addition to her own compositions, she has composed music for Microsoft, WNYC, University of Washington, 5th Avenue Theatre (15 Minute Stories) and the film Seattle Women Black Panthers: Keepers of the Dream.
Along with her music, which has been featured on Adult Swim, BET’s Twenties, TNT’s Claws as well as the Michelle Obama Spotify Playlist Vol. 1, her acting prowess has been featured on HBO’s Vinyl and Comedy Central’s Broad City. Her musical journey is available for listening and purchase through Bandcamp, Spotify & all other streaming platforms.
Sassy is currently writing her first musical as part of the 5th Avenue Theatre’s First Draft program as well as completing two new EPs to be released in 2022. Newly navigating the NFT world, Sassy is excited to join the Arpeggi Labs team as the Head of Artist and Community Partnerships.
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