MacEagon Voyce
Music Writer at Freelance
Freelance Journalist and Content Lead at VICE Media
.co-founder @greymatterfm .words @vice @decentialmedia @nerdist .fellow/mentor @KERNEL0x .musician @ 🌍 .building @emancipationIN + @folk__gg
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1 month ago |
decential.io | MacEagon Voyce
I first met Derrick Washington in 2014. I was living in Boston during a tumultuous moment in American history. In Ferguson, Michael Brown had just been murdered. The ubiquity of smartphones was waking the public to the fact that his death was no isolated event. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. Rekia Boyd. This was the beginning of Black Lives Matter, and the so-called “woke” movement – a groundswell so consequential that the word itself is now demonized by millions who, apparently, prefer to stay asleep.
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1 month ago |
decential.io | MacEagon Voyce
Minted begins inside the living room of Mike Winkelmann, better known as the artist Beeple. Surrounded by friends and family, he’s watching as an NFT of his now iconic piece "Everydays: the First 5000 Days" is auctioned by Christie’s for an astounding $69.3 million. It was the moment that shook the earth. Frontpage headlines introduced NFTs to the world, conveying shock, wonder and skepticism that this might be the future of art. But it was also art’s past.
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1 month ago |
decential.io | MacEagon Voyce
“The first time I ever found Bitcoin, I think it was worth two hundredths of a penny,” he told me. “I tried to borrow my school's supercomputer to mine it, which would have quadrupled the hashrate of the network at the time. But they said no, because it was a gift from IBM and could not be used for financial gain."After graduating in 2014, he worked in festival technology and production, managing cashless payment systems.
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2 months ago |
decential.io | MacEagon Voyce
In 2020, Mayfield called Scrilla to ask him where he could find their track, “On the Reels.” It was no longer on SoundCloud. “He goes, ‘oh yeah, I put it in a picture.’ That's how I understood what he said,” Mayfield recalls. “And I was like, ‘you put my song in a painting?’ And he's like, ‘yeah, kinda.’ You know the birthday cards that when you open them, they play music?
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2 months ago |
decentialbeat.beehiiv.com | MacEagon Voyce
Welcome to The Beat, Decential’s weekly exploration of music, culture and the new Internet. On the culture-tech byway, things move at breakneck speeds. From web3 to AI, copyright to collective ownership, art to psychedelics, The Beat is an exercise in association. We all contain multitudes, and within them, vast differences. But there is some connective, fundamental essence to be found. The Beat is dedicated to that essence, and to the people who seek it; the rest, as Alex Ross wrote, is noise.
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RT @tedgioia: QUESTION: What happens when you adjust music industry revenues for inflation? ANSWER: You learn that the industry hasn’t gro…
I met Derrick Washington 11 yrs ago. He helped open my eyes to the horrors of the prison industrial complex, which continues to guide our work @EmancipationIN my last piece @DecentialMedia explores the journey, ft: @Swopes @thebiracialref & many others🌻 https://t.co/QoQDJ8j7ta
rarely do folks bother to contextualize NFTs within the larger scope of art (and cultural) history; @Nick_Bruckman + @MintedMovie do -- from Yves Klein to Kevin McCoy, who says in the film: “[This movement's] recreating the world in miniature..." indeed, for better & for worse
Beeple’s $69M NFT sale shocked the world. But what happened next? @Nick_Bruckman's @MintedMovie captures the highs, lows, and chaos of the NFT era, where artists, collectors, and scammers all played their part. A must-read from @maceagon: https://t.co/chVsVOHolg
