The Distributed SectionThe platform for horn players

Real Air, Real Brass

Own your sound.
Find your section.

The all-in-one platform for horn players to practise, collaborate, record albums, learn, teach, sell merch, and get booked for live gigs.

The Distributed Section is a free ecosystem built to empower horn players to operate as independent professionals from anywhere in the world. We provide the studio tech, chart distribution, and smart contracts for free.
No subscriptions, no paywalls, no synthetic presets. Just fat, acoustic, dangerous brass, owned completely by the musicians who make it breathe.

We give you the complete studio, arrangement, and distribution infrastructure for free so you can set yourself up as a sovereign professional from anywhere in the world.

Listen

This is the sound we are bringing back.

This is where horn players run the whole career, not the middlemen. Practise the charts for free, audition for a section, and submit for the work. Build your brand, spotlight your wins, teach what you know, and design, produce and sell your own merch. Get booked for gigs and cut whole albums, with no label or platform skimming the top. Let’s be honest: nobody loves Spotify. This is the opposite of that.

Listen HereEddie Harris · play along with the chart below.
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How it works

We love technology. We just love musicians more.

A synth patch is cheaper, it is faster, and it never asks for its cut. But a sample is just a photograph of a fire: it looks the part, but it cannot warm the room.

While the streaming industry quietly swaps out real brass for lines of AI-generated code, millions of us still spend hours every single day sweating over wood, metal, and wire, mastering a physical instrument. They want a frictionless, automated soundtrack. We want a living, breathing culture.

We built The Distributed Section to give those players the ultimate analogue weapon: a complete, sovereign infrastructure to run your professional career on your own terms.

01

Practise & arrange

Turn your living room into an elite rehearsal studio with advanced, adaptive tools.

02

Collaborate & record

Bridge the distance between musicians worldwide, capturing the warmth of live tracking without the friction.

03

Publish & design

Build your brand, design striking merchandise, and get your music out into the world without selling your soul to a label.

04

Monetise & teach

Diversify your income by launching online courses and digital experiences that honour your craft.

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The maths the labels hide

The maths the labels hide.

Streaming platforms pay a fraction of a penny and pocket the rest. Middle layers take a tollbooth on a road they didn’t build. We don’t play that game.

Everything on the platform is completely free to use. No monthly subscriptions, no paywalls, and no setup fees. We only take a transparent 12% infrastructure commission when you make money, whether that is a lesson sold, a shirt shipped, or a recording track locked into a mix. Every other penny is shown transparently, and the remaining 88% is yours.

This isn’t about what a platform takes. It’s about giving real horn players the keys to keep a living tradition fat, acoustic, and dangerous.

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The manifesto

We are keeping a living tradition alive.

Streaming turned a musician’s life’s work into fractions of a penny per play and kept the rest for the platforms. Now a wave of AI-generated music is flooding those same feeds, crowding out the players who made the sound real. We pool live horn players across the world to keep that tradition breathing, and to route the money back to the people who earn it.

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Tell us whether you want to back the record or play on it. We will email you once, the day the wemakeit campaign goes live.

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One email when the campaign launches. No noise. We keep your address to ourselves.