Plasma in DEX Garden
by Jonas Kasper Jensen
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State Channels
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Child Chain
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Markle Tree
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A Trusted Source
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Main Network
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Root Contracts
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Malicious Activity
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Plasma
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Market Liquidity
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about
Listening to Jonas Kasper Jensen’s album Plasma in DEX Garden is like dipping one’s ears into an imaginary garden that is about to become reality. The movement of the soundscape reflects something immaterial and imagined that becomes a real, physical world. It is as if the intangible for a brief moment converged with the tangible, and that the instance stands still and gets duration. As such, the album is an exploration of what an exact moment sounds like, when the immaterial touches the surfaces of the material.
The album title refers to the blockchain technology plasma that, simply put, can transform all sorts of digital values into each other and thus represents a novel way to manage and produce value. DEX stands for Decentralized Exchange, a value interchange system distributed along several entities which exists exclusive on the level of a network, rather than at a single point. To Jensen, this technology is still in its infancy and at the present moment in transition between a pure idea and a fully developed technology that may change the way data, information and value is interchanged. Both plasma architecture and DEX platforms are presently being developed, as programmers and digital architects promise us a brave new world, as if this technology will bring about a new digital garden of everlasting bliss.
The album is playing with these concepts on a compositional level where rhythm, melody and harmony are interwoven and constantly shift in a slow, drone-like motion. Listening closely, one will discover that passages constantly reemerge throughout the album, as if the entire album morphs onto itself in an internal loop, albeit with subtle modifications and mutations. What might seem like a simple, static soundscape will upon closer listening reveal a myriad of combinations and possibilities. Thus, Plasma in DEX Garden invites the listener to take a critical and nuanced reflection on what happens when a vision goes from being an idea to become real, and what that implies: What will happen when and if this new way of handling value becomes a reality?
The album title refers to the blockchain technology plasma that, simply put, can transform all sorts of digital values into each other and thus represents a novel way to manage and produce value. DEX stands for Decentralized Exchange, a value interchange system distributed along several entities which exists exclusive on the level of a network, rather than at a single point. To Jensen, this technology is still in its infancy and at the present moment in transition between a pure idea and a fully developed technology that may change the way data, information and value is interchanged. Both plasma architecture and DEX platforms are presently being developed, as programmers and digital architects promise us a brave new world, as if this technology will bring about a new digital garden of everlasting bliss.
The album is playing with these concepts on a compositional level where rhythm, melody and harmony are interwoven and constantly shift in a slow, drone-like motion. Listening closely, one will discover that passages constantly reemerge throughout the album, as if the entire album morphs onto itself in an internal loop, albeit with subtle modifications and mutations. What might seem like a simple, static soundscape will upon closer listening reveal a myriad of combinations and possibilities. Thus, Plasma in DEX Garden invites the listener to take a critical and nuanced reflection on what happens when a vision goes from being an idea to become real, and what that implies: What will happen when and if this new way of handling value becomes a reality?
credits
released October 23, 2020
All compositions by Jonas Kasper Jensen
Recorded and produced by Jonas Kasper Jensen
Recorded in Copenhagen, between August 2018 and March 2020
Masteredby Lars Graugaard
Cover art by Jonas Kasper Jensen
All compositions by Jonas Kasper Jensen
Recorded and produced by Jonas Kasper Jensen
Recorded in Copenhagen, between August 2018 and March 2020
Masteredby Lars Graugaard
Cover art by Jonas Kasper Jensen
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