Berklee College of Music · Boston
Music Business · Production · Songwriting
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Cora Cao is a Professional Music major at Berklee College of Music, concentrating in Music Business, Music Production, and Songwriting. With a classical piano background that expanded into contemporary music and technology, she independently designs and builds music-related product prototypes — including a Web3 music platform and a voice identity protection tool — grounded in her research on music industry economics and platform dynamics.
Originally from Guangdong, China, she maintains a 3.86 GPA and has earned Dean's List honors across three consecutive semesters. Bilingual in Chinese and English, she brings a cross-cultural perspective to the intersection of music, technology, and the evolving creator economy.
Her interest in protecting artists in the age of artificial intelligence led to Voiceprint Auth, a voice identity protection platform built on blockchain, allowing artists to register and license their voice identity on-chain — making ownership verifiable without storing raw audio.
Cora sees her role in the music industry not as a musician who dabbles in business, nor as a technologist who happens to like music, but as someone who understands both deeply enough to build bridges between them.
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Music has always been a technology story. The piano was an innovation. The recording was an innovation. Streaming is an innovation. What changes with each new tool is not just how music is made or distributed — it's who holds power in those systems, and who gets left out.
My work sits at that edge. I build platforms, prototypes, and frameworks for thinking about how music ecosystems could function differently. Not because I believe technology fixes everything, but because the way we design systems reflects what we value — and right now, too many of those systems weren't built with artists in mind.
I'm drawn to structural questions: How do platforms create or extract value? How do independent musicians build sustainable careers in an industry that was never designed for them? What does it look like when the people who make music also shape the conditions under which it travels?
I don't have all the answers. But I'm building toward them.
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