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

Valuing Artists By Their Potential — Black Dave

Black Dave aka Dave Curry is a music artist, producer, rapper, photographer, and innovator in the realms of web3 music and NFTs. He’s a contributor at Water & Music and shares ideas about crypto and music at his Mirror publication. He helped to found a collaborative music project Amethyst from his hometown in Charleston, South Carolina. We talk platforms for minting music. Dynamics of scarcity in music NFTs ~ 1/1s as fine art and editions as building blocks for communities. And his belief that we should value artists by their potential, not their present moment.

Creating Onchain Records with Metalabel — Anna Bulbrook, Yancey Strickler

Anna Bulbrook is a musician, multi-disciplinary cultural curator, creative producer, and director. A founding squad member at Metalabel. Music Curator at TED. Playing violin with artists like Perfume Genius, Beyoncé, Vampire Weekend and Spiritualized. Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. He’s the cofounder and director of Metalabel, cofounder of Kickstarter, and cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent. We explore two articles by Yancey, 'Reinventing The Record' and 'The Onchain Era', and directly valuing the creative work you love.

Music, Sound Sculptures and Reality — Martí Ruids

Martí Ruids is a musician and sound artist. Professor and researcher in the sculpture department at the Universitat de Barcelona. With more than a decade of experience with sound sculptures and working with masters in Japan. Member of Híbrida, Nen i Cavall. Part of a duet band RIUH with Raquel Cruces performing traditional folk music from the Iberian Peninsula. Member of Pangamelan, exploring gamelan music from Indonesia, using pots and pans to create unique instruments, rhythm, pitch and percussion, achieving trance like states. We talk about experimental music. Sound and resonance. How it effects consciousness. The very nature of reality. Martí's work reviving Baschet Sound Sculptures with concerts in Japan. And exploring the realms of traditional music from Iberia, across places in Catalunya, Basque country, and Portugal.

Creating with AI in Generative Art and Visual Effects — ATARA

ATARA aka Johannes Saam is an Academy Award-winning creative technologist, futurist, and web3 artist. With two decades innovating in visual effects and film, raised by 80s and 90s movies and video games, he's an explorative creator of generative art. We talk about his visual effects career in the film industry, exploring creativity through coding, mathematics and technology, the latest from AI generative platforms such as DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and we go behind the scenes for the creation of DALL-E Punks.

Alex Masmej Talks $DEGEN: Fueling Drakula's Growth and the Onchain Creator Economy

Join us in this episode as we sit down with Alex Masmej, the brain behind Drakula and a key player in the farcaster ecosystem. From his early days of conceptualizing Showtime as the 'Instagram of NFTs' to pioneering Drakula, Alex's journey is nothing short of remarkable. Drakula, now making waves as the 'TikTok of Web3', has seen an explosive start with over $30M in transactions in just two weeks, introducing a new and engaging way for fans to support video creators. Alex returns to the podcast to share the lessons learned from pivoting Showtime to creating Drakula, highlighting the strategic moves, go-to-market strategy, and the decision to adopt $DEGEN as the native currency of the app. I hope you enjoy our conversation and our genesis episode on Pods!