1st Edition
Decentralised Music Exploring Blockchain for Artistic Research
This book offers a thorough exploration of the potential of blockchain and AI technologies to transform musical practices. Including contributions from leading researchers in music, arts, and technology, it addresses central notions of agency, authorship, ontology, provenance, and ownership in music.
Together, the chapters of this book, often navigating the intersections of post-digital and posthumanist thought, challenge conventional centralized mechanisms of music creation and dissemination, advocating for new forms of musical expression.
Stressing the need for the artistic community to engage with blockchain and AI, this volume is essential reading for artists, musicians, researchers, and policymakers curious to know more about the implications of these technologies for the future of music.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Paulo de Assis and Adam Łukawski
Blockchain for Artistic Research?
Chapter 1.
Paulo de Assis
Rethinking Musical Objects in and for Blockchain Technologies: from the Work-concept to Hypermusic
Chapter 2.
Adam Łukawski
Performative Transactions: Artistic Collaboration of Humans and AI Agents in Decentralized Creative Networks
Chapter 3.
Martin Zeilinger
Integrating Generative AI and Blockchain Technologies to Create Musical Objects with Agency
Chapter 4.
Marcus O’Dair
Valuing Web3 music: from NFT prices to the quadruple bottom line
Chapter 5.
Claudio J. Tessone
From blockchains to NFTs: Decentralized (?) platforms for unique (?) content distribution
Chapter 6.
Diane Drubay
Art, People, Museums, and the Promise of Blockchain
Chapter 7.
Catherine Mulligan
Can't Knock the Hustle: NTFs, DAOs and Creativity
Chapter 8.
Kristof Timmerman
Breaking the 5th wall. Stories happen through interaction. Interaction leads to experience.
Chapter 9.
Einar Torfi Einarsson
Hypermusic Experiment 0.9: Modelling, Mapping, and Prototyping The Future
Chapter 10.
Kosmas Giannoutakis
Decentralized transindividual collaborative experimental musicking
Glossary
Index
Biography
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 Łukawski 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.
