World’s first NFT classical music piece bought for more than US$200,000
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May 13, 2021 12:18 IST
After shooting to crypto-fame for buying Beeple’s ‘Everydays’, Metapurse dives into classical music with a choral piece drawn on one of the world’s most fascinating missing person’s cases: Amelia Earhart
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The physical representation of ‘Betty’s Notebook’
After shooting to crypto-fame for buying Beeple’s ‘Everydays’, Metapurse dives into classical music with a choral piece drawn on one of the world’s most fascinating missing person’s cases: Amelia Earhart It is official: classical music has a clout with the crypto world.
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.
Mecha Tunnel on Rarible,”
Eclectic Method explains. “We made 20 copies and priced them at 0.15 ETH each, or about 80 bucks at the time. To be honest, when we paid the $15 minting cost, I thought, ‘This is a total waste of money. This will not sell.’ It sold out in 70 minutes.”
The video remix pioneer made the move into crypto art last December after watching a friend make a similar move and enjoy early success. That friend, Beeple, went on to make history with successive historic sales, first with
CROSSROAD at $6.6 million in February and then with
Everydays The First 5000 Days for nearly $70 million in March.