Your guide to Bitcoin, Ethereum and Web 3.0
While someone is watching music NFTs– unique digital assets that often have both musical and visual components – are the future of the music industry, opening up new opportunities for artists and fans alike, DJ Agoriaa prominent French electronic producer, composer and DJ isn’t too concerned with the hype.
“Since the beginning I’ve said that I don’t trust music NFTs, even though I’m a DJ, an artist and a musician. We don’t want to make music NFTs mainstream, we want music NFTs to be rare , and the fact that we develop things that people want or fight to get excites me more, said DJ Agoria. Decrypt at this year’s NFT Paris.
For him, it’s about going beyond platforms like Spotify where “for $10 you can have any type of music at any time”.
DJ Agoria started his career back in the 1990s when raves spread across clubs around Europe, and these vibes are still alive today, making him “really believe in the desire and the need to look for something more.”
DJ Agoria: Music NFTs and beyond
Heavily involved in generative art – a process of generating new ideas, shapes, forms or colors using algorithms – DJ Agoria is also curious about what artificial intelligence is capable of.
“I work a lot with AI and I like to say that the camera is the eye of the visible and AI is the eye of the invisible,” he told Decrypt. “It’s really cool to look for things that we can’t catch with their eyes, and that’s why I’m interested in doing art with AI because it’s like we’re finally finding things that are usually invisible.”
Last year, DJ Agoria also collaborated with hardware wallet maker Ledger to launch its first NFT artist series – a massive 20-foot generative artwork in the form of a psychedelic puzzle broken down into pieces that can be viewed on the artist’s website.
The project promises a unique experience of minting, buying, selling and trading the NFTs, which the artist – along with his other musical art initiatives – sees as a cool way for people to understand his works and possibly be willing to learn more about crypto and NFTs.
“We’re educating a new move, a new generation of people, and I think it’s very promising,” said DJ Agoria Decrypt. “We are just at the beginning and I strongly believe that there will be something very interesting in the future.”
He also has some words for those who are still skeptical, saying that the important thing is not to come here for the money, as “you will surely lose.”
“We’re not here for the money, we’re here as artists to find and develop new ideas that weren’t possible in Web2,” said DJ Agoria. “That’s what’s exciting: using Web3 and blockchain technologies to do things we couldn’t do before.”
