How many steps does it take to convert an ENS domain name into music?

Convert the domain name registered by ENS into MIDI Art, and convert it into NFT, so as to realize the conversion of domain name into audio.

With the development of the web3 industry, various new ways of playing are relying on NFT, DAO, ENS and other infrastructures to make the blockchain industry more and more diversified.Diversified industries have in turn spawned more, cooler and more wonderful gameplay, such as the E2M we are going to introduce today.

E2M (ENS2MUSIC), launched by Kola Labs, is a project that aims to convert ENS addresses into digital identities for music.The platform can convert the human-readable domain name provided by ENS into MIDI music through AI, and cast the audio into NFT, thus providing users with a unique audio identity.

What is MIDI?

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a signal transmission standard for electronic musical instruments born in the 1980s. In short, it is a digital musical score.It accurately quantifies the pitch, beat, and volume of the music recorded by traditional notation, and also loads a lot of information such as timbre, pan, reverb, sustain, etc.software music) to play.

Due to the high versatility of this technology, a wide variety of musical instruments and techniques have given creators unprecedented creative freedom. MIDI has not only become the mainstream standard for electronic musical instruments, but has also spawned new music forms based on this technology:MIDI Art.

MIDI art not only relies on traditional musical instrument sounds and performance methods, but also innovates the electronic arrangement method.In the traditional arrangement, the score is described by a set of data structures that mark scales, instruments, lengths, and beats, while MIDI is a sampled analog signal, similar to a matrix diagram in graphic design.Midi files can be flexibly edited for secondary authoring.

A typical example is that patterns and text can also be played as musical scores, such as adapting a world map to a MIDI score:

Source: Youtube-Musical World Map, John Keats

Or a sentence:

Source: Youtube-Midi Art [Don't want to go to work]!- Talking dry with music #003, Midi Art Art Art

How many steps does it take to convert a domain name to audio?

The method adopted by the E2M project is to convert the domain name registered by ENS into MIDI Art, and convert it into NFT, so as to realize the conversion of domain name into audio.

At present, E2M has been launched, and ENS has also added a music field to the dashboard for users to fill in.When using it, users can select the domain name they own from the wallet, and pay 0.03 ETH and the gas fee generated by the transaction, thereby converting the domain name into a piece of music.

As a start-up team, Kola Labs has undoubtedly shown their ambitions: they plan to convince ENS to accept the new ENSIP-12, a proposal that allows converting long IPFS links into standardized URI links and allowing audio as digitalidentity to read.

In addition, Kola Labs also plans to support more DID projects to broaden the source of audio, at the same time, they are also trying to promote the concept of audio digital identity to more platforms, such as SocialFi and GameFi.

Music + NFT track is wide

Actually, audio NFT projects are not uncommon in the market at present, but the mainstream projects focus on the NFTization of music and records. Only recently received financing are the music copyright NFT platform Opulous, NFT Record Catalog, NFT MusicPlatform Royal, music NFT market Mint Songs, etc.Compared with these projects, E2M can be said to be one of the few music NFT platforms with more Web3 temperament.

But from another direction, as a fairly early project, E2M converts domain names into audio NFTs in a rather crude and simple way, and there are actually many directions that can be explored in this process.The technology of generating music from pictures and strings is not uncommon, and the algorithms are quite rich. Although the audience is small, there is still potential worth digging into.