Verdigris Ensemble is propelling Dallas into the international crypto art scene. If it works, the choral group could disrupt the classical music industry.
Metapurse, the largest NFT fund in the world that purchased Beeple’s digital artwork
Everydays: The First 5000 Days for $69 million earlier this year, successfully bid on the master and three of the four stems. Metapurse purchase the stem The Choir for $19,094, the stem Betty s Voice for $26,732 and the stem Betty s Radio for $43,916. Bidder MaximoNX purchased the stem Betty s Choir for $49,644. Metapurse purchased the master of
Betty s Notebook for $215,989. Overall, the auction sales totaled over $375,000.
The sale of
Betty s Notebook breaks the Async Art monetary record for a single NFT sale, reflecting collectors interests in programmable music. “
Betty’s Notebook has essentially birthed crypto music, paving the way for a new and innovative medium of creating and experiencing music. Adding the master and 3/4 stems to the Metapurse collection is a true honor, and in our eyes, a natural step in our pursuit to collect the most culturally significant NFTs of
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Bryan Brinkman
More than 80 years after her disappearance, Amelia Earhart is still making history. The story of her disappearance is at the heart of
Betty’s Notebook, a choral work by Texas-born composer Nicolas Reeves that Verdigris Ensemble plans to sell as an audiovisual non-fungible token (NFT) on the blockchain this spring. Verdigris Ensemble is the first classical music organization to produce work in the blockchain world.
With live performance schedules obliterated by the coronavirus pandemic, the Dallas choral ensemble turned to the digital art world to continue to make music and continue to interact with audiences.
How can blockchain technology help artists support their work? Dallas’ Verdigris Ensemble answers with Amelia Earhart project
The enterprising choir has recorded ‘Betty’s Notebook’ by Texas-born composer Nicholas Reeves and will sell it in four parts on the blockchain.
Dallas-based Verdigris Ensemble is creating a blockchain art version of their production of Betty s Notebook which uses music and found sound to tell a story about the disappearance of American aviator Amelia Earhart. For the digital art version of the project, artist Bryan Brinkman created these illustrations.(Bryan Brinkman)
On a Saturday morning in January, at a recording studio off the Dallas North Tollway, eight sopranos and altos sing on either side of vertical, sound-absorbing panels. The vocalists are wearing masks and headphones, and are using iPads instead of paper scores.