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This book offers a thorough examination of the potential of blockchain to transform musical practices. Moving beyond blockchain's financial applications, this book presents various perspectives on how this technology plays an important role in a creative, conceptual and philosophical rethinking of the current modes of artistic creation.
List of contents
1. From the Work Concept to Hypermusic: Rethinking Musical Objects in-and- for Blockchain Technologies, 2. Performative Transactions: Artistic Collaboration of Humans and AI Agents in Decentralized Creative Networks, 3. Integrating Generative AI and Blockchain Technologies to Create Musical Objects with Agency, 4. Valuing Web3 Music: From NFT Prices to the Quadruple Bottom Line, 5. From Blockchains to NFTs: Decentralized (?) Platforms for Unique (?) Content Distribution, 6. Art, People, Museums, and the Promise of Blockchain, 7. Can’t Knock the Hustle: NFTs, DAOs, and Creativity, 8. Breaking the Fifth Wall: The Transformative Power of Blockchain in Virtual Music Performances, 9. Hypermusic Experiment 0.9: Modeling, Mapping, and Prototyping the Future, 10. Decentralized Transindividual Collaborative Experimental Musicking
About the author
Paulo de Assis is an artist researcher based at Orpheus Institute, operating at the intersection of music performance, composition, critical thought, and contemporary philosophy. Active as pianist, researcher, and author, he wrote
Logic of Experimentation-Rethinking Music Performance through Artistic Research (Leuven 2018). Recent artistic-research projects include experimental performance practices on music by Beethoven, Schumann, Nietzsche, and Luigi Nono.
Adam ¿ukawski is a pioneering music composer and computer programmer, innovating at the nexus of computer-assisted music composition and posthuman artistic research. His work, deeply engaged with aleatoric and generative methods, explores the integration of AI and blockchain technologies for creating novel compositional frameworks and enhancing musical interactivity.
Summary
This book offers a thorough examination of the potential of blockchain to transform musical practices. Moving beyond blockchain’s financial applications, this book presents various perspectives on how this technology plays an important role in a creative, conceptual and philosophical rethinking of the current modes of artistic creation.
