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“‘ART’ & ‘CONTENT’ ARE BOTH INTERPRETIVE FRAMEWORKS, AND MUSIC IS NOT ‘ART’ UNLESS WE CHOOSE TO ENGAGE WITH IT AS SUCH. THIS IS NOT ALWAYS AN EASY CHOICE, SINCE EXPERIENCING MUSIC AS ART MEANS MAKING OURSELVES VULNERABLE TO IT. WE GRANT ART ACCESS TO MEMORIES AND EMOTIONS THAT MIGHT BE UPSETTING, INCONVENIENT OR DISRUPTIVE.”

-ART VS. CONTENT BY MATT LEMAY

‘SCENES’ BY SOUND OF FRACTURES IS NOT CONTENT. IT ASKED ME TO SHARE SOMETHING PERSONAL; A TIME I WAS IN LOVE, A PHOTO. THESE ARE PROMPTS THAT NO COMPUTER CAN ANSWER - THEY PULL ON MEMORY, EMOTION & CONNECTION EXPLICITLY AND QUICKLY. GIVING COMPUTER NETWORKS THE ABILITY TO ANSWER PROMPTS IN SEEMINGLY HUMAN WAYS MAY FEEL LIKE A RELATIVELY RECENT PHENOMENON BUT THE INVERSE, CONDITIONING USERS TO HIDE THEIR HUMANITY WHILE NAVIGATING NETWORKS, IS A CENTURIES OLD PROCESS EXACERBATED BY THE TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BRING US CLOSER TOGETHER. WE ALL EXIST IN OUR OWN SILOED VERSION OF THE INTERNET ALGORITHMICALLY TAILORED IN WAYS WE WILL NEVER FULLY COMPREHEND. DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS ONCE FELT LIKE AN ATTEMPT TO BRING US ALL INTO THE SAME INTEROPERABLE, DECENTRALIZED AND COMMUNITY CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT.

“THE ROLE OF ARTISTS IS TO BREAK THE MEMETIC UNIVERSES OF THESE PLATFORMS… AND BRING THEM INTO COLLECTIVE CONTROL… APPARATUS WERE INVENTED TO FUNCTION AUTOMATICALLY… THE HUMAN BEING WOULD BE RULED OUT… THIS RIGID AND UNINTENTIONAL FUNCTIONALITY, AUTOMATICITY, IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE MADE THE OBJECT OF CRITICISM.”

-TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHY OF PHOTOGRAPHY BY VILEM FLUSSER

WE ARE AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN THE EVOLUTION OF MEDIA ONLINE & ONCHAIN. PLATFORMS THAT ONCE HERALDED ARTISTS ARE PIVOTING TO SUPPORT CREATORS. THE PRICE AND QUALITY OF WORK IS MOVING ACCORDINGLY. THEY CELEBRATE CONTENT INSTEAD OF ART. REPLICATING OLD SYSTEMS IS UNIMAGINATIVE.

SCENES IS POWERFUL. THE MUSIC IS EMOTIONAL, THE IMAGES AND TEXT ARE COMMUNITY SOURCED AND THE PRESENTATION IS BEAUTIFUL. IT’S NOT CONTENT. ITS SOMETHING NEW - SOMETHING DIFFERENT. GO CHECK IT OUT.