FloppyFLOPPY comin' at ya live!
TL;DR: Floppy will be a free to play DAW/FPS fostering a community where artists, fans, and collectors alike can find a home together as co-creators. Floppy is an FPS (First Person Sampler) 3D environment that players will use to interact with our DAW (Decentralized Audio Workstation). This DAW virtual experience is modeled after contemporary digital audio workstations with its own old-school spin, ready to be skinned and styled to every release. Floppy is free to play for everyone with a des...
FloppyCreation and Constraint
In the 20th century, the prevalent music drifting into one’s ears was heavily dependent upon location. The city you lived in could strongly predict what genres of music you either created or consumed. These location based genre constraints were largely imposed by the technology of the time period. The dissemination and proliferation of records across city, state, or country lines were exceedingly limited due to the physicality required to interact with any one piece of music. Listeners and mu...
FloppyThe Ethos of Sampling
“Those ravers were at the edge of their lives, they weren’t running ahead or falling behind, they were just right there and the tunes meant everything.”In an age where meaning is becoming increasingly transient and technological advancements continue to spawn ever confounding ontological crises, as humans we are hard-pressed to find outlets that nurture genuine expression of any significance. Do we remain puritanical and stick with the vehicles of expression that we have been accustomed to al...
A Web3 based Decentralized Audio Workstation (DAW) and First Person Sampler (FPS). The first of its kind built on the blockchain.
FloppyFLOPPY comin' at ya live!
TL;DR: Floppy will be a free to play DAW/FPS fostering a community where artists, fans, and collectors alike can find a home together as co-creators. Floppy is an FPS (First Person Sampler) 3D environment that players will use to interact with our DAW (Decentralized Audio Workstation). This DAW virtual experience is modeled after contemporary digital audio workstations with its own old-school spin, ready to be skinned and styled to every release. Floppy is free to play for everyone with a des...
FloppyCreation and Constraint
In the 20th century, the prevalent music drifting into one’s ears was heavily dependent upon location. The city you lived in could strongly predict what genres of music you either created or consumed. These location based genre constraints were largely imposed by the technology of the time period. The dissemination and proliferation of records across city, state, or country lines were exceedingly limited due to the physicality required to interact with any one piece of music. Listeners and mu...
FloppyThe Ethos of Sampling
“Those ravers were at the edge of their lives, they weren’t running ahead or falling behind, they were just right there and the tunes meant everything.”In an age where meaning is becoming increasingly transient and technological advancements continue to spawn ever confounding ontological crises, as humans we are hard-pressed to find outlets that nurture genuine expression of any significance. Do we remain puritanical and stick with the vehicles of expression that we have been accustomed to al...
A Web3 based Decentralized Audio Workstation (DAW) and First Person Sampler (FPS). The first of its kind built on the blockchain.
Rarely are artists fairly paid for their cultural contributions. Too often the greatest innovators go unnoticed and uncompensated. Elvis Presley is one of the most notorious examples of an artist profiting astronomically from an art form largely pioneered by the poorest in society. This isn’t too say Elvis didn’t add to Rock n’ Roll, but his success far outweighed the arguably more integral contributions of it’s black originators. This illustrates an existential problem that has pervaded cultural art forms for as long as can be remembered.
Audiences are generally unaware of the true origins of the music they consume. It has long been the role of major record labels to present their artists as THE true genius of a style or sound. Never mind the subculture of musicians that gave birth to such an artist, there’s no money in that.
In today’s music industry, this is more prevalent than ever. Penny per play streaming services bankrupt output and leave only large syndicated artists to profit greatly from listening platforms.
We want to highlight and reward both the input AND output of the music being created on chain.
At Floppy, we celebrate and reward the seeds of creation as much as the fruits they bear; fostering a symbiotic ecosystem that we hope will become an endless feedback loop of production and cultural appreciation. We want the intrinsic value culture — in this case music — to be forever inextricable to what emerges from its infinite potentialities. We aim to not only ACKNOWLEDGE the unsung progenitors of budding cultural paradigms, but make them an INTEGRAL piece of cultural narratives.
Floppy’s creator -> contributor -> consumer feedback loop begins with episodic artist curated sample packs minted as 1/1 ERC-721 ‘FLOPPY’ NFTs. As each sample is minted, ‘FLOPPY’ holders are both supporting the contributing artist directly, and also populating the DAW with new source material, unlocking the sample to the public. By making our source material public, we are looking to engage musicians outside of the scope of Web3, and provide an egalitarian resource for prospective producers.
Users that hold ‘FLOPPY’ NFT, will generate our ‘WHITELABEL’ ERC-1155 token, in an uncapped, inflationary token model, in which only so many ‘WHITELABEL‘ exist as have been generated.
ALL users will be able to record on our platform, but in order to mint recordings to our NFT marketplace, a ‘WHITELABEL’ must be burned. When a ‘WHITELABEL’ token is burned, a ‘DUBPLATE‘ 1/1 ERC-721 token is created of the recording and cover art.
A ‘DUBPLATE’ token is the final product of the Floppy assembly line. Every ‘DUBPLATE’ token will be listed on our Crates Marketplace. Users will be able to auction their tokens and listen to songs created on the platform, providing a self-contained playlist of all Floppy material.
Floppy’s token mechanics serve to emulate the overall vision of our ecosystem. Sampling at its core is rooted in communal collaboration in pursuit of outputting greater works of art. Unlocking a sample is the first step in encouraging contribution and ownership among the community.
Going forward we will be featuring many artists, and developing our technology alongside our community. We will be exploring and experimenting with decentralized token models, giving community members governance over various aspects to the platform. We will be developing infrastructure and plugins for our DAW and eventually break from the mold of Floppy V1.0, and allow users to remix all songs from the Crates Marketplace. We are building every aspect of our platform with an eye to future iterations, so that we will be able to seamlessly integrate our database and design to other technologies such as VR and metaverse cross compatibility.
Join the Floppy Discord to participate in our community, and be some of the first to experience the DAW before our public release.
Rarely are artists fairly paid for their cultural contributions. Too often the greatest innovators go unnoticed and uncompensated. Elvis Presley is one of the most notorious examples of an artist profiting astronomically from an art form largely pioneered by the poorest in society. This isn’t too say Elvis didn’t add to Rock n’ Roll, but his success far outweighed the arguably more integral contributions of it’s black originators. This illustrates an existential problem that has pervaded cultural art forms for as long as can be remembered.
Audiences are generally unaware of the true origins of the music they consume. It has long been the role of major record labels to present their artists as THE true genius of a style or sound. Never mind the subculture of musicians that gave birth to such an artist, there’s no money in that.
In today’s music industry, this is more prevalent than ever. Penny per play streaming services bankrupt output and leave only large syndicated artists to profit greatly from listening platforms.
We want to highlight and reward both the input AND output of the music being created on chain.
At Floppy, we celebrate and reward the seeds of creation as much as the fruits they bear; fostering a symbiotic ecosystem that we hope will become an endless feedback loop of production and cultural appreciation. We want the intrinsic value culture — in this case music — to be forever inextricable to what emerges from its infinite potentialities. We aim to not only ACKNOWLEDGE the unsung progenitors of budding cultural paradigms, but make them an INTEGRAL piece of cultural narratives.
Floppy’s creator -> contributor -> consumer feedback loop begins with episodic artist curated sample packs minted as 1/1 ERC-721 ‘FLOPPY’ NFTs. As each sample is minted, ‘FLOPPY’ holders are both supporting the contributing artist directly, and also populating the DAW with new source material, unlocking the sample to the public. By making our source material public, we are looking to engage musicians outside of the scope of Web3, and provide an egalitarian resource for prospective producers.
Users that hold ‘FLOPPY’ NFT, will generate our ‘WHITELABEL’ ERC-1155 token, in an uncapped, inflationary token model, in which only so many ‘WHITELABEL‘ exist as have been generated.
ALL users will be able to record on our platform, but in order to mint recordings to our NFT marketplace, a ‘WHITELABEL’ must be burned. When a ‘WHITELABEL’ token is burned, a ‘DUBPLATE‘ 1/1 ERC-721 token is created of the recording and cover art.
A ‘DUBPLATE’ token is the final product of the Floppy assembly line. Every ‘DUBPLATE’ token will be listed on our Crates Marketplace. Users will be able to auction their tokens and listen to songs created on the platform, providing a self-contained playlist of all Floppy material.
Floppy’s token mechanics serve to emulate the overall vision of our ecosystem. Sampling at its core is rooted in communal collaboration in pursuit of outputting greater works of art. Unlocking a sample is the first step in encouraging contribution and ownership among the community.
Going forward we will be featuring many artists, and developing our technology alongside our community. We will be exploring and experimenting with decentralized token models, giving community members governance over various aspects to the platform. We will be developing infrastructure and plugins for our DAW and eventually break from the mold of Floppy V1.0, and allow users to remix all songs from the Crates Marketplace. We are building every aspect of our platform with an eye to future iterations, so that we will be able to seamlessly integrate our database and design to other technologies such as VR and metaverse cross compatibility.
Join the Floppy Discord to participate in our community, and be some of the first to experience the DAW before our public release.
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