Collaborative NFT project Polychrome Music by Rafaël Rozendaal & Danny Wolfers sold out on Art Blocks

On August 24 2022, Rafaël Rozendaal & Danny Wolfers (Legowelt) dropped Polychrome Music, their first collaborative NFT project on Art Blocks and sold out. 

Polychrome Music extends Rozendaal’s previous generative NFT work through the collaboration with Legowelt, who writes of the project:

For Polychrome Music I designed a generative music system that plays an infinite composition on 3 different audio channels, each with their own synthesizer. These randomly generate simple musical timbres inspired by early computer sound chips. The music itself is generated by randomly selecting 3 patterns out of a pool of 180. These patterns, which are little 8-bar music pieces, were written in the same C# Dorian scale so they always fit together. This is a pleasant sounding minor and colorful scale that I believe fits the general vibe of Rafaël’s work. Composition wise, channel 1 plays the bassline and channels 2 and 3 the melody, countermelody, arpeggios and harmonies. The system changes the patterns each time they are played, reversing, speeding up or slowing down the pattern or changing the synthesizer channel they are played on. In essence the system infinitely randomly remixes the source melodies to create ever new surprising pieces that harmonize with the colorful compositions.

The two artists are both from The Netherlands and met each other in Los Angeles nearly 20 years ago.

This is Rozendaal’s second time naming Rhizome as a beneficiary of a drop on the platform, following last year’s transformative Endless Nameless gift, which was the largest individual donation in Rhizome’s history. That gift helped to fund, among other things, a new Rhizome website that will launch this fall. 

Publication date: 31 Aug '22