In this short film by Zora we tell the story of artist collective and creative studio Songcamp. From its origin story, through Camp Genesis, Elektra, Chaos and now C4 — discover the creative, experimental and innovative experiments that Songcamp has been running at the edges of music and the new internet.

Songcamp's most recent project, C4, is currently open at app.song.camp ◌

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CDs exactly as you know them. CDs as you've never seen them before.

Upon writing to disc, your unique wallet address, token ID, and song choice all act as input variables to produce real-time generative p5.js CD artwork. This means that each CD you write a song to evolves into a 1-of-1 unique art piece, with your song choice now written to its memory. Even if you write the same song to multiple CDs, each one’s visual artwork will be entirely unique. There are 999,999,999 possible generative artwork outcomes.

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Blank CD collectors will then be able to write to their disc. Upon listening to the 5 songs from the C4 songwriting camp, they can then select 1 song to write to their disc. This will inscribe that song onto their disc. Each CD can hold 1 song, but people can write to multiple discs at once.

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When C4 is released, listeners will be invited to mint blank CDs. Each blank CD is an NFT with the exact same artwork – a glimmering silver disc with templated iconography referencing the classic look of CD-Rs we used to burn music onto. These blank CDs do not have any audio on them. Each CD has enough memory to hold 1 song.

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15 musicians were curated into the C4 online songwriting camp and split into 5 groups of 3. Over the course of three weeks, each group created a song from scratch together. This resulted in 5 songs that were written, produced, recorded and mixed during the camp.

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C4 by Songcamp. Coming to Zora Network 12.23

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