sone
//an IRL and URL space
for creative community
Sone is a 501(c)3 nonprofit registered in Portland, OR, USA. Our IRL work is centered around our physical location in S.E. Portland where we are renovating a former print shop into a music venue, cafe, print studio, and community hub for our neighborhood (and beyond). Our URL work is cooperatively owned and operated with open source code and publicly available data. No one can buy or sell what we create, not even us.
We do not accept VC-funding or private equity. What we build is in service exclusively to whom we build it for. All revenue is generated from grants, donations, community patronage, and income from our own product & service offerings.
We're interested in incentivizing altruistic outcomes. We believe art can be a vehicle for sustained wealth redistribution, challenging existing conventions, creating systems that better serve us, and regaining sovereignty from the silo'd rent-seeking platforms that continually betray our trust.
Check out more about us and what we're trying to do.
Interested in contributing to one of our projects?
Tone is an open source, equitable music marketplace that is governed and developed by Sone, but collectively owned by the people who use it.
pay-what-you-can streaming
Music is PWYC by default on Tone, while still giving artists granular control over their pricing and minimums.
collectively owned by all
Stay on the surface as a casual listener, or go as far down the co-operative ownership rabbit hole as you would like.
custom + personal
Make Tone your own with custom colors, filters, feeds, playlists, and more.
listen closely
Download or stream music in lossless quality or 320kbp/s.
create + discover
Feeds are everything on Tone, and everything has one. Mix and match to curate your feed from new music and playlists to recently published articles.