Pradeep Kumar

Anthony Daasan

Kalyani Nair

susha

Vidhya Vijay

Rakesh Rajan

Manoj yd

pravekharavichandran

M S Yeshwanth

Praveen Sparsh

Tapass Naresh

Ramkumar Kanakarajan

Manonmani Sarangi

Ramana Balachandhran

Padmaja Sreenivasan

Sushmita Narasimhan

Avantika Kanagaraj

Manoj Krishna

Manikandan Chembai

Solomon Suganesan

Rithu Vysakh

Mylai Karthikeyan Nagaswaram

AarvaY

Radar with a K

Keba Jeremiah Arul

Metapurse

The seed of all melodies, "பண்" is the truest representation of Tamil music, culture, land and its people. A voyage that connects the past, beholds the present and accompanies into the future, Pann is the beginning of a journey into the world of performed, programmable art. This 30-minute piece of music written in Tamil, was commissioned and produced by Metapurse and is a first of its kind NFT from India. It had its premiere in New York’s Terminal 5 on the 4th of November 2021 at Dreamverse, the world’s largest NFT exhibition curated by Metapurse. Pann became the ambient music for this historic event that merged the physical and digital realms for the first time, showcasing the pinnacle of NFT art of more than 150 artists from around the world.

Woven from nine layers of music, each having several variants within it, the Pann master track captures a fresh collaborative performance of 40 musicians and visual artists.  It can be heard in 19440 different combinations, making it a dynamic piece of music with artwork done by Susha, Ghana N B and Vidhya Vijay that evolve along with every changing state of music. While most of the variants were recorded at 2barQ Studios, Chennai, Tamil Nadu by Sujith Sreedhar and Divine Joseph, the cherry on the cake is the live performance of some of the musical and art variants captured during the Dreamverse experience.

 பண் (Pann)

TRADITIONAL MELODY – is the "*soul*" that breathes life into the master track. Symbolized by a pink lotus in the artwork, the sonorous timbre of the sarangi, a bowed stringed traditional Indian instrument played by Manonmani, spawns the lilting melodies heard in the first variant of this layer. The veena, a stringed plucked traditional south Indian instrument represented by a blue lotus, forms the second variant, bringing grandeur to the master track. The third and final variant, the slide guitar performed live by Pradeep Kumar during the premiere at Dreamverse, is the white lotus that adds grace and beauty to the piece.

TRADITIONAL MELODY  - the soul