How AnthroSonus works
This is the working map of the site. What's live on the test site, what's coming next, and a few ideas we haven't built yet. If something here doesn't match what you see when you use it, tell us. That's the whole point of testing.
- 01 Who's hereLive
- 02 RecordsLive
- 03 ConnectionsLive
- 04 VenuesLive
- 05 ListeningLive
- 06 Your profileLive
- 07 Testing: what we need from youNext
- 08 What's nextNext
- 09 Ideas we haven't builtIdea
- 10 Design systemReference
Everyone here was brought in by someone who knows their playing.
There's no sign-up form. Members nominate people they know and trust, in any tradition, and every new member gets a one-time invite link. For now Casey sends each invite himself.
Your profile is public by default, so people can find you: your name, photo, instruments, city, a short bio and your records. The working details stay behind the login: your full bio, what you can offer other players, how to reach you, the venues and the network. You can take your profile out of public view any time.
An album exists once, however many of us played on it.
Add a record and it becomes its own page, with the cover, the tracks and the full credits. Anyone else on AnthroSonus who's named in those credits gets asked if it's really them. Nobody lands on your profile, or in your connections, without saying yes.
You don't have to type it all in. Paste your Bandcamp or Discogs page and it brings your albums in, credits and all. If an album's already here, you join it instead of making a copy. And if two copies of the same album slip through, anyone on either can merge them, with thirty days to undo.
The lines between people come from what actually happened.
Four kinds of line, and none of them is a follow button. Recorded together appears when you're both confirmed on the same album. Played live comes from a gig you both list, or when one of you says so and the other agrees. Bands come from the groups you name. And every member is linked to whoever brought them in.
You'll see these lines on your profile, on the members-only network page, and as arcs between cities on the home page map.
Every venue here is a room where one of us can actually get a night.
Not every club we've played is on this list, and that's on purpose. A venue is listed when it books creative or improvised music, someone like us can get in, and there's recent proof. When you add one, you say why. It goes live once another member vouches for it, or straight away if you've played there yourself.
Rooms change. If a venue stops booking this kind of music, flag it. And if nobody's confirmed a venue in two years, it drops out of the list until someone does.
Up to three of your tracks, playing while people look around.
Each member can put up three tracks with their full credits. Press play and it keeps going as you move from page to page, so you can hear someone while you read about them. Queue up a few and browse. Visitors hear the first track on each profile. Members hear all of them.
Seven short sections, and you can stop anywhere.
Who you are, your music, records and video, links, gigs and bands, contact and privacy, what you offer. Each one saves on its own, and the editor opens where you left off, even on another device. The first four are the ones that matter most. The rest can wait.
Break it, then tell us.
The most useful thing you can do is use it like you would for real. A few things to try:
- Add three of your records, by hand or from Bandcamp or Discogs.
- Tag someone you've played with.
- Vouch for a venue you know, or flag one that's changed.
- Play a track and keep browsing.
- Find someone in the network you didn't know was here.
A feedback button is coming to every page. Until then, tell Casey directly what worked, what didn't, and what you'd change.
A few things are switched off on purpose until we're past testing.
Right now this is a test site. Next it moves to a shareable test address, then the first real invitations go out. After that: the emails that tell you when someone's credited you (they're off while we test), a feedback form, and your gigs pulled in from Bandsintown or a calendar so you don't have to type them twice.
Things we've talked about, and haven't built.
Messages between members, one to one and in groups. A bigger network view that stays readable once there are hundreds of us, with search. If one of these matters to you, say so. That's how the order gets decided.
The design system, for reference.
The look and the rules behind the site. Made 23.09.2026 and refreshed 28.09.2026 with what changed while building: circles, full-colour photos, the player and the maps. Scroll inside the frame, or open it full screen.
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