Volume I · The Quiet Trade

Compositions.
Voices.
Sold once.

A discreet marketplace for composers and singers. A score leaves the composer’s hands. A voice leaves the singer’s throat. What the buyer holds is theirs — fully, finally, alone.

A singer holding a vintage ribbon microphone

Lot 047

Mira — Mezzo, smoke

Now playing03:14 / 04:02

412

Compositions in vault

189

Voices recorded

1,840

Pieces sold

100%

Ownership transferred

A composition, finished.A voice, surrendered.Sold once.Owned forever.No royalties.No regret.·A composition, finished.A voice, surrendered.Sold once.Owned forever.No royalties.No regret.·

Featured · Composition

A piece looking for a voice.

Handwritten musical score on cream paper

Lot 112 · Ballad in A minor

“The room where you left.”

A 3-minute ballad written for piano and voice. Verse, chorus, bridge, a quiet outro. Stem files, sheet music, and full transfer of authorship included. Composer’s name removed at sale.

Length
3:04
Key
A min
Tempo
72

Reserve

$2,400

The Catalog

This week’s lots.

Atlas — Tenor, sandstone
Voice
Lot 0482:38 · Recorded dry

Atlas — Tenor, sandstone

$1,800Acquire →
Nocturne for empty cities
Composition
Lot 113Piano solo · 4:11

Nocturne for empty cities

$3,200Acquire →
Iva — Soprano, glass
Voice
Lot 049Three takes · A cappella

Iva — Soprano, glass

$2,100Acquire →
Folk song, no lyrics yet
Composition
Lot 114Guitar, voice slot open

Folk song, no lyrics yet

$1,450Acquire →

For singers

Sell the take.
Walk away clean.

Record a voice. Set a reserve. When a composer buys, the take is theirs to use, name, or never release. Your throat keeps singing. The recording does not.

  • ·Full master & publishing transfer at sale
  • ·Anonymous listing option for vocalists
  • ·Curated weekly — not flooded with submissions
  • ·Singers paid out within 48 hours
A grand piano in warm light
“I sang it once. I do not own that morning anymore.”
— Mira, mezzo, Lot 047

The Trade

A simple, irreversible exchange.

I.

List

Composers upload finished pieces. Singers upload bare voice recordings. A reserve price is set.

II.

Trade

A single buyer acquires the lot at reserve or above. Payment is escrowed. Files are released.

III.

Surrender

All rights, masters, and authorship transfer. The seller's name is removed from the work, forever.

A note from the house

“We do not believe in royalties forever. A song should leave its maker the moment money changes hands. The buyer becomes the author. The seller becomes free.”

— The Editors, Cadence

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