NFT Award Winner 2022

Rituals - Venice - Aaron Penne x Boreta (United States)

Artwork description

Rituals - Venice is an infinite audiovisual artwork, continuously generating synthesized music and visuals for up to 9 million years. The music and artwork ebb and flow in and out of phase, achieving emergent harmonies that shift over time. The artwork is controlled by randomized processes, embracing the organic emergence and interplay between the music and visual movement.

1000 unique generative audiovisual NFT artworks were created from a single program, with the first 200 NFTs minted in real life at the Bright Moments Gallery in Venice, CA. This physical artwork installation gave each collector a unique individual artwork reveal that included a meditation led by professional healers, site specific display and audio setup, and a private experience with the artwork at the moment of its creation.

Inspired by meditative sound baths, the music builds from binaural tones. Synths, drones, and pads are layered with curated parameters to create unique compositions. The layers of synthesized audio uses a Pythagorean scale allowing any number of