Art, Music and Festival Culture with Refraction — Malcolm, Raf, Greg

Malcolm Levy, Raf Katigbak and Greg Liburd are co-founders of Refraction. An artist-owned community leading the next wave of digital art, music and culture — online, onchain and IRL. They all have extensive backgrounds in media, culture, festivals, films, brands. As artists, designers, writers, producers and creative people. Raf was early at VICE. Greg did a bunch with Jordan. Malcolm was the Director of the New Forms Festival 2001-16, and Curator of CODE Live during the 2010 Olympics Games. Today we reveal that Refraction and UFO are teaming up via our radio station. And exclusive alpha is shared for the future of Refraction for the first time on this show. Sponsors: Your crypto wallet for everything onchain — zerion.io Create, distribute and monetize on your own terms — paragraph.xyz Higher is a lifestyle — aimhigher.net Home of onchain ticketing — onopen.xyz Where group chats make more money — lore.xyz

Songwriting, Music and the Internet in 2024 — Leo Pastel

Leo Pastel is a musician, songwriter, multi-sensory artist and builder in web3 music from Cincinnati, Ohio. Releasing music since 2018 and in the early days of the crypto music scene. His first single Woah had 750,000 streams and he's produced with Songcamp and Camp CHAOS, performing at FWB Fest. Leo tells stories from the gospel scene, growing up in a musical family, and singing as part of the Sunday Service Choir with Kanye. Music on the internet is in a state of change. NFTs are still unpopular to a general audience, while Condé Nast announced layoffs at Pitchfork. If we’re making music and no-one’s around to listen, critique, write about it and record into the zeitgeist — does it make a sound?