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Monkssnap: Artistic Profile and Professional Framework

Monkssnap is an artist with global reach, operating within a strategic, artistic, and professional framework. The project addresses collaborators, curators, institutions, funding bodies, media, and rights holders seeking work with documented international relevance and artistic autonomy.

Monkssnap’s professional standing allows for engagement with curators, institutions, and funding bodies on a peer-to-peer basis.

Operational Pillars

Key pillars of the project’s operations include:

Artistic Autonomy
The project prioritizes independent platforms and refuses extractive structures, such as disproportionate 360-degree deals, ensuring that artistic identity is never compromised for commercial gain.

Transdisciplinary Impact
Monkssnap bridges the intersection of art, society, and expression, lending legitimacy to experimental and political work that resonates universally.

Ethical Positioning
All collaborations are approached as partnerships aimed at scaling an already functioning platform, grounded in long-term integrity and a refusal to separate artistic value from ethical responsibility.

Musical and Cultural Profile

In the digital sphere, Monkssnap is highly active on platforms like SoundCloud, where they blend Drum & Bass, Hip-Hop, and Electronic music with Ugandan cultural themes.

2025 Activity
Recent late-2025 releases include the Bunyangabu Connect series (Parts 1–3) and tracks like Sailor, which explore digital awareness, community research, and spiritual reflections.

Cultural Synthesis
By incorporating Luganda and local references and into high-tier electronic production, the artist maintains documented international relevance while remaining rooted in local societal themes.

With a global following exceeding 300,000, Monkssnap is positioned in the upper international tier of contemporary music practice. This reach represents cultural capital rather than mere commercial value, with algorithmically validated relevance across markets and a professional standing that resonates universally rather than contextually.

Artistic Positioning and Collaboration Framework

The project lends legitimacy to transdisciplinary, political, and experimental work, enabling collaboration without compromise of artistic identity. Engagements are approached as partnerships, not trials, and all agreements are evaluated as the scaling of an already functioning platform. Extractive structures — including disproportionate 360-degree deals — are considered incompatible with the project’s foundation.

Monkssnap operates at the intersection of art, society, and expression, combining political and societal relevance with an independent platform and a high degree of artistic autonomy. The work is grounded in integrity, long-term perspective, and a refusal to separate artistic value from ethical positioning.

Contact and Support Information

For more information on how you can give Monkssnap assistance / both with music and finances, contact us by e-mail.

E-mail: monkssnap@gmail.com

Bank: Equity Bank UG / Kampala

Account number: 1035102752662

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_Bank_Uganda_Limited

Background and Social Commitment

When Monkssnap started writing music, Monkssnap did not think for a moment that Monkssnap could actually make money from it. Monkssnap only wrote what Monkssnap wanted, the joy in the music was enough.

Gradually, Monkssnap changes the idea, goal and career was that Monkssnap should generate income for the music, so it's incredibly good that SoundCloud can contribute with that. The income goes to street projects in Uganda, and help youth in culture, art and music who can to be a landscape that is difficult to navigate.

At the same time as there is an incredible amount of project information that you have to familiarize yourself with, it is also a terrain that is constantly changing where the rules can change in a second. That's why Monkssnap is incredibly grateful that there is media like SoundCloud that safeguards the rights and stands firm and safe in all the chaos.

On top of everything, SoundCloud helps to give a small reminder that all the time you spend on music is worth it. It is very good to know that the music Monkssnap writes actually has value, and that Monkssnap is there with new ideas and projects at a level where youth exists.