VOICE GEMS x Christian Bök

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VOICES OF WEB3 is an archive of voices and statements summarising the year 2023 in digital art and culture. It is a document in time on the blockchain, bringing together some of the leading voices shaping Web3 and the history of digital art: artists, curators, and collectors.

THE VOICE GEMS
The statements have been recorded in the form of spoken word, poems, and songs by the contributors and are frozen in time as VOICE GEMS on the blockchain. The VOICE GEMS were created by Harry Yeff (Reeps100) and Trung Bao, who have developed a voice-centred generative system utilizing data found in a human voice to synthesise the form and colour of the artwork.

Every voice is unique, and with that comes unique fingerprint-like data. Features like pitch, resonance, harmonics, and pace sculpt particle data points in a simulated digital space.

TRANSCRIPT
KALOKAGATHIA

"stars are bubbles of air
rising through an infinite
depth: we rise with them
through this dark, slow
motion snowfall in reverse

sleep through our ascent
bound at wrist and ankle
by the chains from silver
watches, anchors without
weight: even as we dream

we hold our breath against
the moment when we crash
up through the surface
tension, as though through
a sheet of glass, into still

another depth with other
stars, the fragments of our
last collision in our wake
eyes shut tight, and every
mouth a photo of a scream"

– Christian Bök

ABOUT THE NFT
Contract address: 0xA8E5Ec62bfec3906817cBb56728523e65E2e681d
Blockchain: Ethereum
Token standard: ERC-721
Metadata: Frozen and decentralized