Lxrd_Ox (@lxrdox) • Hey
An Electronic Music Artist from MD, USA
Publications
- Song: The Hour Glass - LxrdOx
This song is one of my favorites from the new beat tape! 📼 Can't remember what I used to make this track though but Synths going crazy on this one. Listen to the full track at my Bandcamp at the link in my bio!
- with spare time... 👩🦳
- with spare time... 👩🦳
- What I been up to lately....
- The fact that you can mint posts directly from the app is a really cool feature. Makes me want to use this more often than I do. I been on Lens for a while now and after using the other social networks, Lens is the one that I come back to.
- Maybe this will work?
It's a new song from my latest tape called "Wrong Ways". Only out on Bandcamp for now, but will be coming soon to Supercollector.
- I heard you can directly mint from Orb now! Will be giving this a shot today so stay tuned! 💿💿💿🔥
- What up yo!
- Lens broke a new record: over 200,000 Profiles minted. 👏 How are you planning to celebrate it, anon? 🥳
- Hey everyone!!
My newest Tape is out now on Supercollector!! 9 Tracks of Electronic hip hop.
https://release.supercollector.xyz/ox-music-vol3-lxrdox
- Thinking I’ll spend the upcoming days reposting music I released on Lens for my new #lensfrens
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#lens #permissionless #onchainmusic #web3music #onchainsocial #web3social
- Hey everyone!!
My newest Tape is out now on Supercollector!! 9 Tracks of Electronic hip hop.
https://release.supercollector.xyz/ox-music-vol3-lxrdox
- Interesting take. Here are my thoughts (long rant incoming).
Encouraging audio-based artists to adopt a video workflow is not a good solution. The final destination for music production is the audio file (or vinyl record, CD, cassette tape, etc).
Consider the amount of time a musician spends on recording, arranging, mixing and mastering. These are the areas musicians & producers are mainly focusing their skills and time on. The end result is the sound - we’re not thinking in the visual realm at all.
To expect a video upload to substitute for audio is problematic on several accounts:
One; musicians are not video producers. For instance, I don’t even own video editing software (I’ve spent all my money on audio plugins 😂). So this adds an extra step that many musicians won’t bother with. After I finish mastering a song, it’s done. I defintiely don’t want to open up Premiere Pro and start messing around with video encoding, resolution, bit rate settings, etc.
Two; the video component DISTRACTS the listener from, well… LISTENING!! 😅 I’m okay with generating some cover art for the music, but I want my collectors to be focused on listening to my music, not watching a video (unless it’s a live performance - which in that case the video component is useful).
We are SUCH a visual-based culture. We often fail to appreciate sound as a stand-alone artistic medium. As an audio engineer and musician, I want to foster a culture of listeners. People need to close their eyes more often and switch their senses.
The other issue here is relying on web2 DSPs like Spotify or SoundCloud to distribute music. I fundamentally disagree that web3 musicians should use these platforms to distribute their music. The ENTIRE reason I found myself in the web3 / blockchain space is because the music industry needs a new model of distribution.
Private, centralized DSPs and their label counterparts have been ripping off musicians for years and years. It’s backwards for musicians in web3 to continue using these services. We need to build something better and move forward.
I could go on about audio-specific metadata tagging (ie. ISRC codes, publishing, copyright, etc) and the need to integrate this into web3 music distribution / minting. Plus, the standards for tagging audio files are not the same as video file tagging, which presents another issue for ownership of master recordings. But this rant is long enough as it is so I won’t go there. 😂
Last thing I’ll mention… there is such a rich catalog of music / audio posts on Lens, dating over a year back. It would be AMAZING if the @lens/Phaver community could experience this! To date, none of my music is available to any Phaver users - all they see is a post describing my music, but no audio for them to listen to. 😭 It would be truly awesome to build an audience on Phaver and make my catalog available to your users.
This is just my two cents. I’d be interested to hear from other Lens audio-heads for some different takes.
cc:
@lens/panwinyl @lens/xinobi @lens/agoria @lens/sttsm @lens/mstrbstrd @lens/frankiestyles @lens/aboutriver @lens/ruthless @lens/infinati @lens/heartyears @lens/internetfase @lens/natem @lens/mrswemusic1 @lens/lxrdox @lens/oohlala @lens/cristinaspinei @lens/mixtape @lens/deanjackson @lens/spinamp @lens/zombieshepherd @lens/karmavioletta @lens/sameold
- Been sick this whole weekend. 👎🏿
- Only 10 days till mint ends!
Grab this banger before it's too late!
https://www.sound.xyz/sttsm/a-hard-xmas-party?referral_source=link
- Wow Orb UI is pretty crazy tbh
- GM everyone!
A few more days until this album comes out! I'm really excited for y'all to hear these tracks.
https://lxrdox.bandcamp.com/album/ox-music-vol-3
- Hey Hey!
I been working on new music! My new beat tape comes 2/29. Here's the single. Pre-Order at lxrdox.bandcamp.com. Enjoy
1 USDC
- HOLY SHIT THIS ORB UPDATE IS AMAZING!🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Generative music project Unlooped just launched and there’s a free mint on Base. I minted this cool piece.
👾🎛️👾
https://www.unlooped.xyz/collections/0xde3e6a01663025301838b64685845daa5cfccbd8/tokens/86
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- I have a free mint out now! Check it out on Zora. Its a track I made a year ago. Something tranquil.
**https://zora.co/collect/base:0x45103e37111a7656fd14882069fb164e985ede19/1?referrer=0x0fc5df1A76DAc8A19d11d2dDcC5BbE4B79BBa910**
- *AI LoFi*
FREE MINT
This is my genesis composition using generative AI for music. 🤖🎼
I treated the AI component of the track similar to how samples would be used in hip hop or lo-fi beats. Most of the composition is my own, but the kernel of the track is based on the AI output.
Generative audio using AI is an interesting subject. Unlike many AI image generators that allow commercial use of the image, Stable Audio (the model used for this track) requires a license / monthly subscription to use the audio commercially. So this is probably the last time I’ll use this platform… But I’m definitely interested in the possibility of rolling my own model and training it locally with original music.
In the meantime, to honour the non-commercial license (and offer a little Valentine’s Day gift 💞) I’m making this track a free mint! If you like it and decide to collect, please consider leaving a tip (you can also leave a tip if you don’t collect and show your support). 🫶🏻✨
Happy love day #lensfam 🌿
@lens/buttrfly @lens/oohlala @lens/spinamp @lens/mixtape @lens/creators
#LMCC #Lens #Creators #Web3Music #MusicNFTs #StableAudio #AI #OnchainSocial
- I have a free mint out now! Check it out on Zora. Its a track I made a year ago. Something tranquil.
**https://zora.co/collect/base:0x45103e37111a7656fd14882069fb164e985ede19/1?referrer=0x0fc5df1A76DAc8A19d11d2dDcC5BbE4B79BBa910**
- Mint Parking Lot Night Loop
https://zora.co/collect/base:0x45103e37111a7656fd14882069fb164e985ede19/1?referrer=0x0fc5df1A76DAc8A19d11d2dDcC5BbE4B79BBa910
- Mint $CHEESE
https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xe4ceeb0c8dd38c18692a76562343e089febc30ea/1?referrer=0x0fc5df1A76DAc8A19d11d2dDcC5BbE4B79BBa910
- IM BACK ON THE BLOCKCHAIN!!!!!!!!!
- I'm glad the Decentralized web exists, and thank everyone that help build/built this thing.
I feel like this is what the web should have evolved into from the beginning. We just didn't know the big corporations' objective or motives were at the time. People got greedy.
- I still love Lens. Its the one I always come back to....
- The latest volume of Ox Music just dropped on Supecollector! https://release.supercollector.xyz/ox-music-vol2-lxrdox
- Who thought this was a good idea?!
- This tech is revolutionary but people have to use it for this to be the future. And its needed now more than ever.
- Is this thing on?!
- Just posted this if you're into collecting new music.😁https://www.sound.xyz/lxrdox/lucid-dream
#beats #electronicmusic #lxrdox @lens/mixtape
- Hey Hey!
I been working on new music! My new beat tape comes 2/29. Here's the single. Pre-Order at lxrdox.bandcamp.com. Enjoy
1 USDC
- Hey Hey!
I been working on new music! My new beat tape comes 2/29. Here's the single. Pre-Order at lxrdox.bandcamp.com. Enjoy
1 USDC
- Yup.io is so fire!!!
- More music to come! Watch this space!!
- ⚡️ 💸 ⚡️ 💸 ⚡️ 💸 ⚡️
The default collect currency in Buttrfly is now USDC, providing a better experience for new users with clear and easy to understand value, more convenience, and less friction overall.
You can still choose WMATIC as a currency if desired as well as the new ability to set the time limit up to 30 days now.
- Various Astronauts says hello world… or rather, GM Lens! 🌿👩🏽🚀
https://buttrfly.app/post/0x01d0bb-0x01
- Gn🌙 Fam! Have you listen to this playlist on @oohlala ?
Just take a 🎧listen to very good Web3 music. 🎛️🔊🎵
https://oohlala.xyz/playlist/da1d6555-ed63-406e-9092-f555635a8066
- Deep Grooves on Oohlala 🕺💃
https://www.oohlala.xyz/playlist/cf85a9da-c96c-46ae-80de-566ce9d5a8c9
- I was listening to this in the car on the way to work today and it slams. Need to post it again…!!✨
Deep Grooves is a playlist of selected music I’ve collected on @lensprotocol featuring:
@internetfase.lens
@lxrdox.lens
@xinobi.lens
@agoria
@ruthless.lens
@jburn.lens
@infinati.lens
@shlippin.lens
@mynameisheno.lens
@mrswemusic1.lens
@remcycles.lens
Turn it up!!! 🔥🔥🔥
https://buttrfly.app/post/0x019d96-0x0edd-DA-48ac6364
- Happy we have an official music community! Hey everyone!
- At Work..... Ready for this day to be over
- ❤️
- Here's a track I uploaded to Sound! Its a loose one from way back. Its been sitting on my drive and wanted to drop it somewhere and Sound was the best spot, plus I wanted to test uploading on there. Its called Sik Uh Dis.
https://www.sound.xyz/lxrdox/sik-uh-dis
- **Film Board Pulse**
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TL/DR; this piece was inspired by early memories of 1980s nature documentaries that might have influenced Boards of Canada’s sound…
Growing up in Canada, we used to have these short nature documentaries air on local tv. They were produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB for short); a publicly funded film producer that made documentaries and experimental films. It was called *Hinterland’s Who’s Who,* a 60-second PSA, profiling Canadian animals.
Side note: there are so many NFB films that I adore, such as Norman McLaren’s *Dots (*an animation from 1949 in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by drawing directly upon the film), and the apocalyptic cartoon *The Big Snit* by Richard Condie. I'll include links to these in the comments.
The thing about *Hinterland’s Who’s Who* was its theme song - a 10-second solo flute piece, where the combination of vibrato and the wow and flutter of the tape recording produce this distinct, memorable sound. Now, I can’t quite confirm this, but if you're familiar with the Scottish band Boards of Canada, you’d recognize this warbling, pitch-bent, tape emulation that often appears in their music. Were they originally inspired by the *Hinterland’s Who’s Who* theme song?! 🤯
When I created this piece, the flute-like arpeggiated synth reminded me of the Hinterland theme. I added some tape flutter (thank you Abbey Road Vinyl) and suddenly it was giving me some serious BOC vibes.
So, here it is. A little homage to the NFB, Boards of Canada and those little hinterland animals that kept me company when I was a little boy.
@mixtape.lens
@oohlala.lens
#LMCC #MusicNFTs #Lens #NFB #Canadiana
- To all my musicians.....
Do you ever find stuff you made years ago and listen back to them?
I do it all the time and I can recall all the stuff I was going through during that time, good and bad.
- Here's a track I uploaded to Sound! Its a loose one from way back. Its been sitting on my drive and wanted to drop it somewhere and Sound was the best spot, plus I wanted to test uploading on there. Its called Sik Uh Dis.
https://www.sound.xyz/lxrdox/sik-uh-dis