99 African Women

Over the past decade, more than one million migrants have arrived on Italian shores from Africa. At least 30,000 people are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea while attempting to reach Italy. Many of them were women and children.

In the public imagination, these lives are often reduced to statistics reported by the media. Yet behind every number there is a person, a story, a memory and a future interrupted or transformed. Who are these women? Where do they come from? What did they do in their countries of origin? What are they searching for? What are they escaping from?

99 African Women is a Music NFT dedicated to migrant women: poor and wealthy, healthy and ill, Muslim, Catholic, animist and Orthodox; women living in cities, villages, rural areas, forests, riverbanks and coastal communities; healers, nurses, doctors, students, workers, artists, mothers, grandmothers, soldiers, musicians, dancers, cooks, athletes, photographers and survivors.

The work gives musical form to a multitude of lives that are too often invisible, evoking vulnerability, dignity, trauma, resilience and identity.

All profits from the sale of the work will be donated to the United Nations Refugee Agency, supporting people forced to flee their homes.

Five Women in Dadaism

Five Women in Dadaism is a Music NFT dedicated to five women whose work and presence were central to Dada and the early twentieth-century avant-garde: Clara Tice, Hannah Höch, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti and Beatrice Wood.

Clara Tice was an American avant-garde illustrator and artist associated with the bohemian milieu of Greenwich Village. Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist and one of the pioneers of photomontage. Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was a radical artist and poet whose performative presence helped define the New York Dada scene. Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti was a French painter, collagist and draughtswoman whose work contributed significantly to Paris Dada and modernism. Beatrice Wood was an American artist and ceramicist connected to the avant-garde circles around Marcel Duchamp and Henri-Pierre Roché.

The music was created using white-noise modulations and singing bowls as source material, combined with original Dadaist poetry and music recorded between 1916 and 1926 on 78 rpm records, then reworked using AI-assisted music-processing techniques.

Jellyfish

Jellyfish are among the most ancient animals on Earth. Fossil evidence indicates that jellyfish-like animals existed more than 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, long before the appearance of dinosaurs.

Some jellyfish are associated with extraordinary regenerative cycles and have often been described as symbols of biological continuity. In this project, I imagin jellyfish as future inhabitants of a transformed planet: creatures capable of drifting through both water and air, and perhaps even dreaming of music.

Jellyfish is a multi-part Music NFT project consisting of works published on MakersPlace and Catalog.

6EQUJ5

The SETI Institute, founded in 1984, is a nonprofit research organisation dedicated to the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth.

In 1977, a 72-second signal received from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius became known as the “Wow!” signal. Its alphanumeric sequence, 6EQUJ5, has become one of the most iconic references in the history of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

The project imagines each level of intensity encoded in the signal as a distinct musical transmission.

Pangea and Panthalassa

Pangea was the supercontinent that brought together most of Earth’s landmasses approximately 300 million years ago and began to break apart around 200 million years ago, during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. The name derives from Ancient Greek and means “all Earth.”

The vast ocean surrounding Pangea was called “Panthalassa,” meaning “all sea.”

This project imagines a world in which human culture emerged on Pangea before the division of continents, borders, religions and ethnic identities. Pangea Panthalassa becomes a speculative geography: a place where sound, image and cultural memory exist before separation.

The music and images bring together instruments, voices and references from different regions of the world:

Art transcends borders, ethnic divisions and religious distinctions. It moves between cultures, creating unexpected forms of exchange and expression.

Ukiyo-e A.I.

Ukiyo-e AI explores the visual and emotional world of Japanese Ukiyo-e painting through artificial intelligence, music and poetry.

The project attempts to recreate the atmosphere, colours, sensations and poetic resonance of ukiyo-e by integrating traditional Japanese visual culture with musical materials and Haiku poetry.

The project used GAN-based neural networks, combining  VQGAN—Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network—and CLIP—Contrastive Language–Image Pre-Training.

The neural network was trained and guided through three main sources:

• Images of ukiyo-e works by major Japanese masters, representing samurai, geishas, Kabuki actors, animals and landscapes.

• Traditional Japanese music for shamisen, shakuhachi, koto and kabuki orchestra, transformed into spectrograms and connected to images.

• Haiku, the traditional Japanese short poetic form.

Ukiyo-e, meaning “pictures of the floating world,” is a genre of Japanese art that flourished during the Edo period from the 17th century onwards. Its masters include Moronobu, Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi, whose works depicted beautiful women, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, historical and folkloric scenes, landscapes, flora and fauna.

The musical dimension of the project draws on traditional instruments such as koto, shakuhachi, shamisen and kabuki orchestra, creating a dialogue between historical Japanese culture and contemporary generative technologies.

Strange Attractors

Strange Attractors is a Music NFT project inspired by chaos theory and by the mathematical structures known as strange attractors.

A strange attractor is a geometric structure associated with a chaotic dynamical system. Such systems are highly sensitive to initial conditions: trajectories that begin close together may diverge rapidly over time, producing complex and unpredictable patterns.

The most famous example is the Lorenz attractor, discovered through Edward N. Lorenz’s mathematical model of the atmosphere. Its shape is often compared to a butterfly or a mask.

The strange attractor becomes both a scientific model and a poetic structure: a way of thinking about sound, image, motion and transformation.

Four music NFTs featuring animated visualisations of different strange attractors generated from mathematical equations.

Silicon-Carbon-Based life

In 2016, researchers at the California Institute of Technology, led by Frances H. Arnold, engineered enzymes that enabled living bacteria to form carbon–silicon bonds. This discovery opened new possibilities in synthetic biology, astrobiology and the study of alternative forms of life.

Silicon is already present in certain living organisms, including diatoms, which use it to build protective shells, and horsetails, ancient plants that concentrate silicon in their stems.

Silicon-Carbon-Based Life imagines the emergence of hybrid biological systems based on silicon-carbon chemistry. The project reflects on the possibility of life forms radically different from those known on Earth, while also considering the scientific and philosophical implications of synthetic organisms.

The project consists of four NFT videos with music, illustrating speculative stages of cellular division and the emergence of an imagined new life form.

Xenomorph cells 

Xenomorph Cells is a project consisting of four NFTs combining experimental graphic synthesis, video and music. The work is inspired by recent developments in xenobiology, biotechnology and the creation of XNA or xeno nucleic acid, refers to synthetic analogues of DNA and RNA capable of storing genetic information using chemical backbones different from those found in natural nucleic acids.

XNA suggests the possibility of alternative genetic systems and synthetic life forms. By expanding the possible chemical foundations of genetic information..., these systems open new theoretical and artistic perspectives on evolution, mutation and the design of living matter.

Using the chemical formulas and three-dimensional structures of XNA components, I created a series of moving graphic environments based on mathematical synthesis. The project imagines the development of xeno-cells built from three different synthetic nucleic-acid backbones: threose-based, glycol-based and hexose-based structures.

The four videos, each two minutes long, represent different phases in the development of these speculative cells, including mitosis and meiosis. Each stage is accompanied by a dedicated musical composition and supported ccompanied by scientific references and bibliographic documentation.

Metaphysics 

Metaphysics is a work by artist and photographer Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, with music by Roberto Musci, published on the NFT marketplace MakersPlace.

The work presents a metaphysical space where the future of art encounters the past. In a surreal staging, a robotic dog witnesses the destruction of the classical Greek statue of the Diskophoros, recreated from a real 3D scan of the ancient sculpture held in the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

The piece creates a dialogue between classical form, digital reconstruction, technological imagination and the fragility of cultural memory.