The Guilds of Sibiu

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Problem Statement

🎵⚗️🧱🧤⚒ The Guilds of Sibiu~entry into the 2022 ETHGlobal NFTHack hackathon~The Guilds of Sibiu is a mixed reality artwork celebrating the rich history of craft guilds in Transylvania, using a new music web3 primitive —smart scores.A smart score is a provably authentic, scarce, and immutable digital representation of a musical composition, built with decentralized web protocols. It is the autograph score of the 3rd millennium, with an important distinction — the composer and collaborators can receive royalties in perpetuity! 🎼 ♾ 💰✍️ For centuries, collectors and scholars have treasured autograph scores written in the composer's hand. 🔎 These manuscripts have both aesthetic value and historical significance. 🎻 Some famous examples are Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Mozart's Requiem.But when the autograph score for the Requiem sells at Sotheby's for half a million pounds, Mozart's estate receives nothing. And how much more impactful could these perpetual royalties be for living composers still working in the field?The Guilds of Sibiu is a test of the 💡 smart score idea — think of it asContemporary chamber musicmeetsEmerging web3 technologymeets (soon)Pen-and-ink illustrations.🌠 Jump straight into the Guilds metaverse to mint your own Guilds music NFT!https://hubs.mozilla.com/jo8FKzd/guilds

Solution

🛠 What technologies are used?~All components except for the music were built by @NeoDaoist between 14 Jan 2022 and 16 Jan 2022~Minting web app, built with scaffold-eth and hosted with SurgeDownloadable PDF and audio content, stored with IPFS and nft.storage2 ERC721 contracts — a 1/1 smart score (with Manifold.xyz) and an edition of 8000 music NFT collection (with scaffold-eth)1 ERC1155 contract to slice secondary NFT sales between creative collaborators, built with Slice.soMetaverse scene, built with Mozilla Hubs, Sketchfab, and BlenderMusicAudio mockup of the music, produced with Steinberg Cubase and Cinematic Studio Series virtual instrumentsSheet music PDF, engraved with Steinberg Dorico🎻 What about the music?The piece was composed in 2021 for the ICon Arts Festival in Romania for flute, bassoon, violin, viola, and percussionEach of the 8 movements was inspired by a medieval craft guild of Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania (e.g., goldsmiths, embroiderers, candlemakers)It was premiered 25 July 2021 by the ICon Arts Ensemble, featuring members of the Sibiu State Philharmonic OrchestraV2 of the piece expands the number of guilds from 6 to 8, adding Blacksmiths and CobblersThe smart score was minted as a 1 of 1 Music NFT — OpenSea and nft.storageSecondary royalties are paid to an ERC1155 contract which distributes ETH in proportion to slices owned😎 What does success look like?A fun, compelling experience for listenersA new way for composers, performers, engravers, and other collaborators to get paidA learning experience building with open source blockchain and metaverse toolshttps://github.com/NeoDaoist/guilds