Eighteen months of making ambient music in web3!
As I finish mastering ANFT #067 a mind-blowing one and a half years since I began the project, I'm excited to implement some important tweaks born of the lessons learned during this 18 month commitment: In an effort to increase long term value for the early supporters of project and put ANFT on an accomplishable timeline, I am going to reduce the final count of the project from 256 to 128.
The benefits will be twofold:
1. By reducing the supply to 128 I can confidently establish holding these as membership in a 1 for 1 free mint of every major edition'ed drop I do going forward in web3, including the mammoth eight song composite video album Monomachinations that I will be dropping this year (with live onstream recording starting next week). I am confident this will only build in value as future drops and redemptions accumulate and foster a sense of community and appreciation for my OG ANFT holders.
2. When I started AmbieNFT I anticipated capturing a quick snapshot of a generative patch and minting it more or less live. The reality is that I put well over thirty hours into each of these pieces from recording to (copious) comp'ing to mixing, mastering and video synthesizing ... pretty far from the intended off the cuff two day process. The development of the sync licensing pool (with placement pitches as recent as PAX last weekend) only serves to put more pressure on having the best possible compositions+mixing to pitch while staying true to the generative ethos of their creation. This puts the total remaining supply at an accomplishable 1830 more hours and say that without a drop of irony and 2000+ hours behind me.
Reduced supply. Greater long term value. A win for all and it might even be done in less than another year and a half. The best part: 060-067 are some of the best work I've done in my life and I wouldn't have it any other way.
To check out the project on OpenSea: https://opensea.io/collection/ambienft
**To learn more about the project: **join one of web3s preeminent synth communities on our discord: https://discord.gg/f7MD352Kjz
...and this I where we sneak in the alpha for you that none other than web3 pioneer queen @fifirong will be the guest collaborator lending her voice to the generative madness on AmbieNFT #070 ... with our first proper auction in months to follow! We've been trying to collaborate for months and I'm extremely excited to cut the modular loose on her vocals.
The future is on rails. See you there.