Street Performing Musician at micro1

Street Performing Musician

$100 - $300/hour

pay

• live music performance
• musical instrument proficiency
• public performance
• event logistics coordination
• self-promotion (e.g., sharing portfolio or social media links)
• time management
• permit and compliance awareness
• audio/video recording compliance
• professionalism
• adaptability

micro1 is the leading AI data lab for training frontier models and evaluating AI agents. Experts contribute their diverse subject matter knowledge across domains such as finance, healthcare, STEM engineering, and more. micro1 transforms that real-world expertise into high-quality training data, evaluations, and feedback loops that improve how AI systems learn, reason, and perform.

Our platform identifies and vets top talent through an AI recruiter, enabling high-quality expert contributions  aim to enable 1 billion people to do meaningful work by applying their expertise to AI. As our global expert network grows, micro1 is building the human intelligence layer for frontier AI.

At micro1, we work with human experts across a wide range of fields to build more reliable AI systems. Human expertise is at the center of everything we do, and we believe the best technology creates more opportunities for people to create, perform, and discover.

In the first edition of microsessions, we're inviting local musicians to perform live in outdoor areas across San Francisco on August 6–7. We'll sponsor artists to play in some of the city's most iconic public spaces, introduce their music to new audiences, and professionally capture their performances as part of a project exploring the future of music education.

We are creating this as something musicians enjoy being part of, and something San Francisco enjoys stumbling upon.

We're looking for 20–40 solo musicians and small groups (1–3 performers) to perform live across San Francisco on Thursday, August 6 and Friday, August 7.

• Perform a 1–2 hour live set
• During one of three daily time slots:
• LUNCH: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
• AFTERNOON: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• HAPPY HOUR: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
• Perform at one of several high‑foot‑traffic locations across the city, including FiDi, the Marina, Dolores Park, Alamo Square, Pier 39, and Golden Gate Park (locations will be finalized with each musician before the event but musicians must ultimately secure their desired locations and any associated logistics)
• Wear micro1 event apparel during the performance + feature basic signage explaining microsessions.
• Be filmed and recorded by a small production crew for approximately 20-60 minutes during their set.

Every performance will be filmed and recorded. We're upfront about this on-site and in this brief because we think a project about honoring musicians should be honest with everyone it touches. Here's exactly what the recording is used for:

• Marketing: a launch film and social content celebrating the artists and the city.
• Education-focused research: audio can help AI models better understand music — things like recognizing instruments and genres, learning music theory (keys, chord progressions), and understanding the cultural roots of a style, as well as potentially enhancing artist discoverability. The goal is tools that help people learn and discover music, not replace musicians or their work.

• Use this data to generate artificial music, ever. We don’t allow it and we don’t appreciate it. We are making a public promise to reserve this data for tools that support musicians, never extract from them.
• Use it to replace or compete with musicians.
• Use it for anything beyond the education and marketing purposes described above.

Musicians are compensated and every performer participates with full consent and a signed release covering the licensing described here.

• Solo musicians or groups of 1–3 people.
• Available for a 1–2 hour set within one of our time slots between August 6–7 (playing on both days is welcome if you're interested).
• Able to perform at a location you're already permitted or approved to play at (whether by city permit or private-property arrangement) — final locations are subject to our approval but we are not able to coordinate permits at this time.
• Responsible for your own instruments/equipment; please build any related costs into your quoted rate.
• Able to share a video, Instagram, or portfolio link showing a past performance.
• Comfortable being filmed and recorded per the terms above.

Please note that after completing the interview process, you will be considered for this and other roles that match your skills.

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