Create your work.Choose how fans can support it.
Build your profile, add your music or artwork, and decide what fans can buy, collect, access, or join. You keep control of your work.
FIRST EDITION
Creativity Unleashed
First Edition helps you turn your work into new ways to earn, reach fans, and build support around what you create—without upfront costs or technical complexity.
For musicians, visual artists, photographers, video creators, and the people who want to be there early.
Create, choose, share, earn, grow.
How it works
Turn your work into new ways for fans to support, collect, access, and participate.
Build your profile, add your music or artwork, and decide what fans can buy, collect, access, or join. You keep control of your work.
Your Creations.
Your Choices.
We handle the complicated parts.
Fans can collect releases, unlock access, join experiences, and stay connected as the artist grows.
The process
See the artist process, or follow the same experience from a fan’s point of view.
Bring together who you are, your story, your work, and your links.
Add your music, albums, artwork, photography, or video.
Decide what fans can buy, collect, access, support, or join.
First Edition helps with the technical setup and release preparation. Nothing goes live before you approve it.
Share your work with fans, earn from activity around your releases, and build an audience that can stay involved.
Find artists through what they create, care about, and share.
Support artists and releases directly.
Own clearly defined releases and editions from artists you care about.
Unlock content, experiences, perks, or community access when an artist includes them.
Stay involved through artist communities, future releases, and optional Fan Economy experiences.
Artist spaces
Build a profile that feels like you, bring your existing platforms together, and give fans new ways to discover, support, and stay involved with your work.
Identity & Story
Customize the look, tell your story, and give fans a clear home for who you are and what you make.
Mara Vale
Los Angeles, California
Electronic soul / Ambient pop
Mara Vale builds intimate electronic soul from voice notes, analog instruments, and the small sounds that usually disappear from a recording.
Music & Media
Feature songs, albums, videos, photography, and other media alongside the platforms where fans already find you.
Mara Vale
EP / 2026
Single / 2026
Studio note 04 / Voice and room tone
Releases & Fan Participation
Create collectible releases, access, special experiences, and other ways for fans to participate around your work.
Mara Vale
The complete EP, a digital session book, and access to a private listening-room conversation.
A numbered cover-art study paired with the original single and a short process film.
Links & Audience
Bring together Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, your website, and the places your audience already follows you.
Mara Vale
One artist space connects the places fans already listen, watch, and follow.
Mara Vale
↗01Mara Vale
↗02@maravale
↗03@maravale.studio
↗04@maravale
↗05maravale.example
↗06Impact
Track how your releases and First Edition activity contribute to causes you care about.
Mara Vale
Mara Vale supports
Regional animal care fund
Independent rescue network
Example recipient update: release contributions helped provide food and basic veterinary supplies for animals entering foster care.
01 / 05 — Identity & Story
Mara Vale
Los Angeles, California
Electronic soul / Ambient pop
Mara Vale builds intimate electronic soul from voice notes, analog instruments, and the small sounds that usually disappear from a recording.
Early signals
Fictional founding-wave profiles demonstrate how different practices can live within one discovery system.
View artist ↗Electronic soul made from close vocals, worn circuitry, and patient rhythm.
View artist ↗Paintings that hold gesture, interruption, and the memory of built places.
View artist ↗Quiet architectural photographs about distance, shelter, and who a city makes visible.
View artist ↗Moving-image works where light, fabric, bodies, and sound behave like memory.
Impact, by design
Artists may direct part of eligible activity to causes they care about. First Edition will also direct a portion of platform fees toward basic tools and resources for artists who lack them.
Illustrative data—not live platform activity
Total impact
$18,420Illustrative contributionsArtist-directed
$11,760Across eligible activityMission contributions
$6,660From example platform feesOrganizations
7Illustrative verified recipientsArtists supported
14Illustrative resource grantsResources provided
29Tools and equipmentCreative work
Bring the work you already create. First Edition helps you give fans new ways to experience, support, and collect it.
Singles, songs, and audio releases.
Single / 3:19
Complete releases and special editions.
EP / 2026
Original artwork and limited digital editions.
Leonie Hart · Mixed media on linen / Example work
Individual photographs and collections.
Ivo Sen · From the fictional series After Weather
Films, music videos, and moving-image work.
Sol Rami · Moving-image study / 04:26
Artist economics
Choose how your work creates value—from collectibles and special access to royalties, merchandise, collaboration, and impact.
Offer unique digital collectibles directly to your fans.
Give fans special or early access to digital and physical work.
Receive recurring payouts from initial sales and eligible fan-to-fan trading.
Connect your existing store or offer products on demand.
Recognize multiple contributors and define how proceeds are shared.
Direct part of your activity toward causes you choose, with verifiable proof of impact.
Use First Edition and grow your audience without paying anything upfront.
We charge a small processing fee when sales and eligible trading happen instead of requiring you to pay upfront.
Founding wave
Become a First Edition artist and help build a new platform for music and art.
Become a First Edition Artist