A recent project called Tunes used AI to generate 5,000 unique NFTs. They’re songs, or rather, shells of songs – missing artwork, audio and an artist. That’s intentional. They serve as prompts for people to iterate on, tapping into a recent trend in the NFT space popularized by another project called Loot. Let’s dive in. Loot At the […]
Livestreaming is a concert without an audience in proximity to the musicians. Marshall McLuhan, in his seminal Understanding Media, argued that humans share an ineptitude in understanding the nature and the effects of new technologies. We cannot help but view these technologies as a new form of an old technology we’ve become accustomed to. McLuhan […]
This piece explores the intersection of underground rave culture and Web 3 concepts like decentralized autonomous organisations. Lately I’ve been thinking about an idea I had pre-pandemic. I wanted to set up a local rave night to fill a gap I perceived in Berlin’s nightlife. I mentally prepared myself to do all the heavy lifting […]
Decentralized ownership registries helped enable digital art’s NFT boom of the past year. Next, blockchain, the distributed ledger technology, will underpin fanbases and the way artists build careers, teams, and engage with industry infrastructure. Can you put a fanbase on the blockchain? Here’s what it could look like. Decentralized Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) If you spend […]
Changes that had been simmering in the live music industry for years accelerated during the pandemic. It’s hard to find an artist who hasn’t done a livestream nowadays and this has pushed musicians to ask more directly what their fans want and want to pay for. Similarly, games have provided stages for music in lieu […]
The more I read and hear about NFTs the more sense it makes to me for artists to get in on the act and find a new way to broaden their revenues (here’s how artists can go about creating and selling an NFT). But what about the buyer’s perspective? Why should they get in on […]