Tunebook – Connecting Musicians, Sharing Traditions, and Inspiring Greatness

I am applying for a $5k Developer Grant.

Please review my application and discuss! See DFINITY’s directions for becoming a registered reviewer here. They will be collected by DFINITY. When two weeks passes, DFINITY will release them and they will appear as a new section on this post.

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MY APPLICATION:

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For anyone reading this in the future, I would like to explain something that apparently was not clear in the application:

Over the years, many seminal collections of Celtic tunes have been hosted on various servers, but searching for them today often leads to a frustrating result—broken links and inaccessible files. The largest resource for Celtic music, thesession.org, is a Web1 site, managed by a single individual. While it has served the community well, its slow updates and centralized control pose a significant risk. When the site owner can no longer maintain it, there’s no guarantee the music will be preserved or that the site will remain online.

Celtic music is an ancient tradition that will continue to evolve for hundreds of years to come. Unfortunately, the current digital preservation efforts are fragile. In my own search for digital versions of essential Celtic tune collections, I’ve had to rely on the Wayback Machine—a resource vulnerable to attack and far from a guaranteed method of preserving important cultural data.

Building Tunebook on the Internet Computer ensures that this will never happen again. ICP’s decentralized infrastructure guarantees the permanence and security of data. By using this technology, Tunebook will preserve the greatest collection of transcribed Celtic music in history and ensure it lives on for centuries, long beyond my lifetime. The collection, once hosted on vulnerable, centralized servers, will now have a permanent home on the blockchain, where it will be safe from loss or degradation.

Moreover, there currently isn’t a service that allows musicians to connect and share tunes, which would be hugely beneficial to this global, social culture. Celtic musicians are constantly looking to discover each other’s repertoires, as this is crucial for participating in local and international music sessions. From North and South America to Europe, Australia, Israel, and Japan, Celtic music is a global tradition with countless participants. Tunebook will not only preserve the music but also serve as a social platform where musicians can connect, share tunes, and participate in this living tradition.