Memory Box is a look back into my past, through the traces of digital artifacts left behind on the series of personal computers I've used beginning in childhood. Recovering these artifacts is an emotional task for me. The Mac Plus that has been packed and sitting in my parent's basement since 1996, when the screen went dead. The hard drive still contains my programming experiments, and for the past decade I've always had a mind to try to have it recovered. But I've procrastinated, knowing that the data might not be recoverable. It was easier just to let it sit in an unknown state, rather than confirm that it was gone forever. It would be like losing a piece of myself. Finally I brought myself to have the drive recovered.

See full video story here:
https://www.ensemble.art/story/memory-box

Memory Box - Editions

Raw hexdump showing program listing of game Bits & Bytes, a sci-fi roguelike puzzle game programmed in BASIC on Macintosh Plus in 1995, accompanied by a  hand drawn recreation of the game from personal memory.

Bits and Bytes

Generative audiovisual art. Nothing but a C compiler. Pushing the limits of multimedia stored completely on-chain. 

Series 0 - Synth Poems are short generative music pieces, inspired by the sound of analog synthesizers. They are stored [on-chain](https://deafbeef.com/about.htm)

Each piece is generated at the time of minting from a random hash value, influencing musical elements including tempo, timbre, pitch and time signature. Simple rules lead to surprising variation, giving each piece it's own distinctive personality, while retaining a common theme.

Although synth poems are audio focused, a fitting visualization is added as an ode to early computer graphics that used vector displays to visualize analog signals. What you see is a direct representation of the sound signal, as it would appear on an oscilloscope.

The code that generates the audiovisual is stored completely on-chain, allowing a user to reconstruct the media without having to trust IPFS or external storage.

Deafbeef

DEAFBEEF: Generative On-Chain Multimedia Art 

The code and parameters to generate and reconstruct these multimedia files is stored on 
the Ethereum blockchain.

Series 0 - Synth Poems - Token 86

Synth Poems are 1min generative audiovisual pieces using FM synthesis, and XY oscilloscope visualization. Each entirely generated unsupervised by a self contained code model, which is stored on chain. 

<p> Frequency Modulation(FM) is a method that was used in broadcasting radio signals, later discovered to be useful for audio synthesis allowing a simply way to generate rich harmonic timbres. The left and right stereo audio channels are mapped to the XY inputs of a (virtual) oscilloscope to produce a direct visualization of the audio waveform. 

<p>  At the musical level, this generative algorithm plays with feedback to produce an evolving but balanced set of timbres and pitches.  Across pieces, a carefully selected set of rules govern the variation of tempos, time signatures, (in)harmonicity  resulting in individual pieces that are unique, while retaining a common theme.


DEAFBEEF Series 0: Synth Poems - Token 86

Infinity Flowers by Dmitri Cherniak

Each Selection Pass grants the owner the right to select an artwork from Infinity Flowers by Dmitri Cherniak. The lower the Selection Pass number you own the earlier you are granted access to choose your preferred artwork. This selection process is live at https://infinityflowers.io/

Infinity Flowers by Dmitri Cherniak - Selection Pass #29

Future Drops

The Oasis is your backstage pass to the Wild ecosystem, serving as the foundation for all immersive experiences, which will expand over time.   
The Oasis grants you access to allowlist for artist drops (first come, first served), and an ongoing destination that will surprise and delight.   
Visit out website_https://www.wildoasis.xyz for more information.

Oasis Pass

Coming Events

LongunLabs Mint Passes are used to mint brand new Generation and they are burned automatically upon redemption. Visit_https://www.longunlabs.xyz for more information.

LongunLabs Mint Pass

Longun Labs

Blur Care Package

Owning this Package indicates that the user has received Blur airdrops. Our first step is airdropping Care Packages to everyone whos continued trading NFTs these last 6 months. Our goal is to make Blur a marketplace that the entire NFT community owns and profits from. Using the Blur Care Package NFT, you can prove ownership and claim airdrops. For more information, visit https://www.blurreward.io