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Benny Conn: Beat Foundry. Generative On-chain Music NFTs | Will, Lee, & Andrew Learn Web3: #51

Episode Summary

Benny Conn is the founder of Beat Foundry. Beat Foundry is a generative music NFT that actually sounds good. All song data is forever stored on-chain in MIDI format so anyone can freely interpret and remix it in their own way. We discuss Benny’s story and how Beat Foundry works.

Episode Notes

Music NFTs are the next frontier of Web3.

A 19 year-old just created Art Blocks for musicians:

Benny Conn is the founder of Beat Foundry. Beat Foundry is a generative music NFT that actually sounds good. All song data is forever stored on-chain in MIDI format so anyone can freely interpret and remix it in their own way. We discuss Benny’s story and how Beat Foundry works.

Learn more about Benny and Beat Foundry:

• Beat Foundry Website: beatfoundry.xyz
• Ocarina NFTs on OpenSea
• Beat Foundry’s FAQ
• Beat Foundry’s Twitter: @BeatFoundryNFTs
• Benny’s Twitter: @bennyconnn

In this episode we discuss:

• Benny’s origin story and pivoting into software engineering
• Other music NFT projects like Arpeggie, Sound, and Catalog.
• Discovering MIDI - a format for communicating music to a computer.
• What Beat Foundry actually does.
• How Beat Foundry is able to store music on-chain. What does it mean and how does it work?
• How Benny’s background in Jazz helps him think about putting music together that sounds good.
• New possibilities of Beat Foundry’s NFTs. Creating a new type of composer.

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