European Artist Bank

We’re not a bank for art. We’re artists building the bank we always needed. Fair pay. Real ownership. Infinite imagination. 👇 Sign the manifesto

[European Artist Bank @EuroArtistBank]

Inspiration for sonic heroes and heroines

[European Artist Bank @EuroArtistBank]

@TARartRAT @DJBobbyStarrr @joinwebzero

[TARartRAT @TARartRAT]

CHEERS to @DJBobbyStarrr whose @EuroArtistBank tools made it possible for me to scan, secure & print a mini Maté gourd in clay!
(file under: slightly off-label use;)

SEE Y'ALL back at Blockspäti TODAY to MAKE STUFF w/ ceramic kingdom berlin!

#maté #blockspäti @joinwebzero

[Mark Farina @djmarkfarina]

Amazing Grace Jones, 1978.

[NME 1980s @nme1980s]

Kurtis Blow, by Richard Grabel.
Pics by Joe Stevens.
New Musical Express, 17 October 1980.

[R.M. Stanley eSQL @DJBobbyStarrr]

New @EuroArtistBank merch?
🧞‍♂️💫
Comes with a ltd edition ... ?

[European Artist Bank @EuroArtistBank]

Back to Brandenburg next week!
Fostering a new EAB use case with a complete village

*a real one 🏞️, not a Comic or VR one 🙃

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

Miles Davis meeting Kenny G is one of my favourite photos ever. His look is priceless.

[Louis Dazy @louisdazy]

GM — with ‘Through Smoke’

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.

In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out.

To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government. It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.

People's work is not the government's to give away.

If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

[European Artist Bank @EuroArtistBank]

Eno - A real Walkman in Sound

[Brian Eno News @dark_shark]

Brian Eno: I Want To Be A Magnet For Tapes in TIME OUT March 15-17, 1975 #interview https://t.co/ZxpX6B32tK

[De La Soul @WeAreDeLaSoul]

Happy #DeLaSoulDay! 3/3 🌼🌼🌼

Celebrate with us at the @nprmusic Tiny Desk ☁️🏠⛅️ https://t.co/qelZ0tcROC

[European Artist Bank @EuroArtistBank]

Stumbled on genius: a turntable cat-scratcher 😹🌀
It’s silly, smart and perfectly on-brand for all turntablists no matter if a noob or OG feline

*Reminder: artists shouldn’t only drop tunes, they should ship objects that live in their ecosystems forever
**Available via SuckUK

[European Artist Bank @EuroArtistBank]

'Der Große Weg'

Reject the straight line: “The straight path is godless.”
Choose the spiral: growth, return, becoming, just like a record’s groove ⏺️

EAB takeaway: We’re building rights & provenance tools that feel organic, the Artist way 🏡

#ArtToProduct #Hundertwasser #EAB

[European Artist Bank @EuroArtistBank]

@joinwebzero @Polkadot Love to the flow!

[European Artist Bank @EuroArtistBank]

EAB's Crate Dive
001 - 'An infinite human arpeggio'

That after-work escalator from Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi (1982 film; OST 1983)

"a minimalist pulse that rewired city soundtracks and prefigured loop based electronic music"

#CrateDive #PhilipGlass #Minimalism

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

I’m old enough to remember when Adobe claimed to respect creators’ rights in their approach to generative AI training.

Hey @adobe, whose work does Runway train these models on?

[European Artist Bank @EuroArtistBank]

🟡Wolf Moon to open 2026

Moons are the timekeepers of tides, chores, and cycles set to light. In many northern traditions, January’s full moon marked midwinter audits, stores counted, paths planned, so here’s to a new year of clear signals and brave releases!
#WolfMoon #EAB

[European Artist Bank @EuroArtistBank]

Pay Artists for the Draft Too

1- Hepworth sculpted dozens before 1 masterpiece.
2-Kafka rewrote endlessly.
3-Agnès Varda spent years on notes and before every film.
4-Arvo Pärt rebuilt his musical language in 8y of silence.

Creative labor isn’t free just because it’s invisible.

[European Artist Bank @EuroArtistBank]

__Europe Doesn’t Need More Apps__

It needs cultural policy.
STIM’s AI music license proved it: protecting rights = protecting futures.
Innovation without ethics is extraction.