// Station 1 // Track Details

Meme Factory is the seventh verse for “The Awakening” live concert, featuring Eric Pan improvising on piano with atmospheric synth effects.

Title and cover artwork take inspiration from “MEME FACTORY”, an eye-popping creation by Grant Riven Yun and a bold announcement of a core tenet of decentralization through art — with artwork subsequently ReMemed by Wintermute. “MEME FACTORY” is Meme Card #52, minted in January 2023 under cc0, as part of SZN 2 of _The Memes by 6529_.

Collection of this track-pressing relinquishes it of all copyright, making the music freely available for remix, sampling, commercial use, and other derivative creation — a.k.a. cc0 licensing terms.

// Station 2 // Catalog x The Memes by 6529

“Live from the Open Metaverse” is a concert program curated by Eric Pan (pandelic.eth), the first-ever instrumental performance series transmitted throughout the permissionless metaverse, hosted by OnCyber.io in the 6529 Museum District.

“The Awakening” is its second concert, featuring Eric Pan on keyboards playing a fully improvised set for a live metaverse audience, mixing jazz, percussive piano, and synth effects.

This performance, recorded on the 9th of April, 2023, celebrates _The Memes by 6529_ — an ongoing mission to broadcast the message of decentralization through art. It extends the ideas and energy of The Memes with music: first, through the presence and immediacy of live creation; and now, through the persistent memory of our public blockchain commons, available for unrestricted and free replay in perpetuity.

Since the artwork of The Memes is by principle cc0 — free to distribute, remix, and use commercially — the music of “The Awakening” is released to the world under the same terms, also upon purchase. Collectors of “The Awakening” receive the same status and perks as collectors of other pandelic.eth 1/1s (more below), with an additional benefit, therefore, to being the first collector of one of these: the act of purchase liberates the piece from all commercial copyright, releasing it into the world for anyone to use, sample, sell derivatives of, and so on.

// Station 3 // Featuring Grant Riven Yun, Meme Card Artist

The original inspiration, "MEME FACTORY", can be found on the secondary market:

https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x33fd426905f149f8376e227d0c9d3340aad17af1/52

Grant Riven Yun is a digital artist whose work can be found on SuperRare and elsewhere. Read about Grant's art journey here:

https://twitter.com/GrantYun2/status/1588972793156493313

...and explore his collections at https://ribbonriven.com and https://deca.art/GrantYun2. Be sure to follow @GrantYun2 as well.

// Station 4 // Featuring Wintermute, ReMeme Artist

Wintermute is a voxel artist and an avid fan and creator of Generative Art and traditional art media, a ReMemer and PreMemer within the 6529 Meme Community. The PreMeme work can be found every week at https://om.pub/memes, with minting of work at https://foundation.app/@WintermuteGAN. Follow https://twitter.com/WintermuteGAN if this is your style of art you love to see.

// Station 5 // Collector Perks

This track is a 1/1 Catalog NFT composed, performed, and pressed by Eric Pan (pandelic.eth).

Every owner of a pandelic.eth Catalog NFT also receives unlimited, “golden ticket” download access to Eric’s entire published music catalog, in resolutions up to MP3 V0 and lossless WAV. As of this pressing, this includes the following:

+ The Awakening, Live from the Open Metaverse

+ Travel Poems . Chapter 1 . Secret towns (LP)

+ Travel Poems . Chapter 2 . The night sea (LP)

+ Travel Poems . Chapter 3 . There is no path back (LP)

+ Lullabies of the Pleiades (EP)

+ goodnight margaret wise brown (single)

+ the year the shipwreck became beautiful (single)

Extras: full-resolution cover art, liner notes, music videos

Every collector with golden-ticket status also has access to Eric Pan’s future music+extras as they become published. Collectors ready to redeem downloads can email gm@ericpan.org at any time for access, as well as in case of any questions.

More expansive and exclusive perks will be unveiled over time.

// Station 6 // Credits

Show production by @DarrenSRS @OM100m @oncyber

Show filmed by @fmiasp

Mixed by Brian Trahan

Artwork by @GrantYun2 @WintermuteGAN

Released under Falling Sea