Music deserves a world, not a thumbnail.
Sonic Grid is the agentic media platform for music. Story, visuals, brand, community and income in one full-bleed world that’s yours, made by hand or by conversation.
The thumbnail era
For twenty years music has been a small square on someone else’s shelf, one row in a list of millions.
Full bleed
On Sonic Grid the song opens into the world it came from, at the size it was imagined.
A world you own
The story, the visuals, the brand, the people and a way to support it, in one place and under your name. This one is Devon Baldwin’s.
Turned inside out
The network lives inside the artist’s brand
Elsewhere, an artist is one tile in a feed someone else owns. On Sonic Grid the events, the press, the conversation and the community live inside the artist’s world, under their name and their look.
Karsh KaleDUST · out now
EventAlbum DUST: listening session and Q&A
GalleryDUST in Conversation, Rolling Stone India
The short path
From the music to a living presence
No web build, no agency, no blank page. You talk about the work, Sonic Grid organizes what you say and what you’ve made, and you decide what goes out. Walked here with Eccodek’s work.
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Tell the story
The Story Engine interviews you, by voice or by typing. Your answers stay in your own words.
- 2GenreDubInfluenceVieux Farka TouréGearSony MCI JH618 consoleProcessHybrid analog/digital recordingPlaceThe MonastereoLabelReal World RecordsCollaborationDesert Dwellers
Themes surface
Influences, gear, creative process, places, labels and collaborators, not only genres, pulled out as themes you can build on.
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textural organic forms, natural elements, abundant negative space, heavy film grain, muted earthy palette
Find your look
Your palette, type and visual style, set once and carried through everything you make.
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Build the world
Tracks with their own visuals, posts, gear and pages, arranged into a full-screen home.
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Open the doors
Release, start a Space around a theme, and let people subscribe. All from the same place.
In motion
Karsh Kale’s world, in 75 seconds
The studio
A deep creative toolkit
Work hands-on, or direct the same tools in plain language with the built-in guide or your own AI. You stay in control.
For fans
Go all the way in
Follow the music you love past the play button: the story behind the record, the visuals made for it, and the room where the people who love it are already talking.
Hear it in its world
Every release opens full screen, with the visuals made for it playing alongside the music.
Meet the people behind it
Forty years after the first A Winter’s Solstice, many of its original artists recorded new pieces. Their stories live with the record.
Find your people
Spaces gather listeners and musicians around a sound, a scene or an instrument, and anyone can start one.
Ambient GuitarAbleton LiveGeometry in MusicThe ResidentsSupport it directly
This album was funded by its listeners. Here, subscriptions and purchases go to the people who made the work.
Your income
Earn where your audience already is
Your audience doesn’t have to leave the world to support it. Subscriptions, merch, events and gear sit inside the same place people listen.
Subscriptions
Your levels, your names, your prices
Build your own ladder of access, from free for everyone to your closest supporters. Name each paid level, write what it gets, price it monthly or yearly, then choose who can see every post, track and drop.
- EveryoneFreeReleases, posts and the world itselfFree
- SubscribersFreeUpdates and subscriber-only postsFree
- Inner CircleYour first paid levelEarly releases, works in progress$5 / mo
- Studio PassYour top levelStems, sessions, first dibs on gear$15 / mo · $150 / yr
Merch
Your Favorite ExDevon BaldwinSell what you make next to the music it came from.
Events
DUST listening session and Q&AKarsh KaleAnnounce shows and sessions, invite-only or open.
Gear
The MonastereoEccodekShow the room and the instruments, and list gear to sell.
The team
Builders and music industry veterans
Dan Newman
Founder and CEO
Architect of Sonic Grid. Former Director of Engineering at AnyRoad; former Six Degrees Records artist.
Bob Duskis
Founding Strategic Advisor
Co-founder of Six Degrees Records; former head of A&R at Windham Hill.
Fabian Alsultany
Strategic Advisor, Business Development
A&R at Palm Pictures; talent buyer at SOB’s; VP of Programming at Wanderlust.
Justin Molina
Marketing and Growth
Former Director of Technology at AnyRoad; founder of Sol Imagery.
Derek Beres
Content
Writer for the NY Times, The Guardian and Rolling Stone; co-host of Conspirituality.
Peter Karman · Greg Blacketter
Engineering
17 years in AI, security and performance; 20+ years in test automation and QA.
Early access
Accepting early access applications
We’re bringing people in small groups, with a direct line to the team. The people who come in first help decide what this becomes.
Not ready to apply? Join the mailing list, or follow along as we build.
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