- MUSIC NFTS
- 04/18/2023 @ 5:04 PM
Pat! So great to be speaking with you today. I’ve been eagerly awaiting news on your upcoming drop- excited for this conversation.
To begin can you introduce yourself to our community? Where you are based and the mediums you work in?
I'm currently based in LA although Boston runs through my veins. I have a long history in music - 20 years as a guitar player, 12 of which as a professional touring guitarist. I consider music to be my home base and vantage point for everything I do - however when I entered web3 I immediately did what I could to augment my music with a visual component. Long story short that has led me toward 3d animation.
That makes a lot of sense, in a visual social space like twitter, having images and animations to pair with your music is a fantastic way to create high impact projects.
Can you tell us a bit about your upcoming project, and then we can zoom out and talk more about music in the space in general. What do you have planned for this next big moment?
"Noise" is a collection of ~175 3d animations each of which have unique music. This was my first successful attempt at scaling up to a bigger collection after having some success with small editions and 1/1's - and to be frank a big part of my motivation for striving to find a workflow I could scale up was because of people like you proving that the ecosystem craves bigger art collections.
Each foreground animation for "Noise" is unique - there are different color schemes, different environments, special traits, different melodies, and different instruments - plus a few legendary 1/1's. I've been amassing an allow-list for a month through organic promotion mostly on twitter and fingers crossed that leg work will carry me through the mint on Monday. If this project succeeds, the marketing bullet points will have been consistency, good art, real dialog with interested collectors, and nothing more.
This sounds incredible… and I agree. Putting out wider collections allows us to cast a wider net and have more people involved in our ecosystem. Every collector is an invested advocate, someone who’s incentives are aligned with our own. I’m eager to see you put this theory to the test.
How did you first encounter web3 and why does this technology make sense to you as a creator? What problems can it help solve for you?
It came on my radar in early 2021 just via my network from people like you and what I was seeing on socials - when I was sitting inside wondering how I was supposed to continue sustaining a career as a touring musician.
From my very narrow vantage point - it clearly has opened a path to both creative and financial freedom for myself and has the potential for me to approach composition and creation as a fine artist as opposed to chasing pennies from streams and having a limited form of expression.
It unlocked a different layer of creativity because of the demand for digital art that I genuinely would have never stumbled upon otherwise - and whether or not I ever become wealthy, that's been the biggest gift.
Outside of myself the use cases are too many to list - but things like blockchain verification in a world where things are increasingly easy to spoof is a big one I think most people can get on board with.
Well said my friend. What is some advice you’d have for someone who is new to the space, on the creator side?
I could probably write a 100 page thesis on this but for the sake of brevity and sanity I'd say understand that it's a marathon -
if you don't enjoy the process of trying to get to where you want to go you'll never get there. The second big thing would be to actually use the tech and/or ecosystem to approach things creatively that you would not have otherwise. If you just come here and try to drop whatever you were working on pre web3 with no effort or intention, you're both missing the point and missing an opportunity.NOISE
Pat, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us today. To the reader, follow along with Pat Dimitri by visiting his website.