Gregory Beylerian
Open your heart is a multi faceted NFT project collaboration with Nico Borromeo. And myself, Gregory Valaria. Nico is a composer of films, a musician, of multiple instruments, engineer, essentially an extraordinary artist of the Sonic nature. And I am a multidisciplinary artist with great emphasis of visuals, photographic painting, sculpture sound. In this project, I play a traditional instrument called the Duke, which comes from the highlands of Armenia, near the base of Mount Iraq, it’s an ancient instrument of the Armenian people. And Nico plays what’s called a Iran Roco, which is a larger version of a Charango that is found in Argentina, and other areas of that region of the world. So the project, open your heart is really a journey that encompasses the language of music, on a platform of Sonic resonance, and the capacity for resonance to flower dimensions of the heart into an open, unconditional loving state. Hey, Nico. Hey, Greg. Let’s talk about open your heart. Absolutely. So our NF T project is a kind of beautiful merging of sound and visual. Where we’re using traditional instruments in a contemporary way. And we’re using traditional mythological symbols in a contemporary way. symbolizing past present future, right? Yes. And with a transcendental arc, that’s the idea where sound can be utilized to resonate consciousness in an upward or higher state of frequency or awareness, provocation through sound and visual stimulation,

Nico Borromeo
totally thoroughly. I mean, when we, when we started the concept, what we wanted to achieve is something that will transcend the time. And that can go from a very organic and ancient symbolism and energy. And that will that will, how would that look, if we were like, 5000 years from now. And so the concept of opening your heart, it’s something that will resonate resonates with all of us. And it’s such an innate and essential part of our being or being human. That was thought that was like, regardless of what time you’re in, if it’s like, in the furthest future, or in ancient era, there’s always going to be that energy. And that idea of like, how important the heart is, and the importance of opening that and like nourishing it, and like be an honor, it’s and, and so we feel like that will, that will always stress and space and time. And so what we wanted to achieve with the elements was to use, like you said, very traditional elements, for example, the picture of the bully symbol, and, and the way you did your drawings, ranging from more abstract lines in the use of technology to later contemporary and contemporize it into the future. Same thing I did with with the music that we did together, we’re starting with very organic, traditional sounds, which is led by the Duke that you played beautifully is like the oldest instrument in the history of music and the world. And in the first, like the first master music that’s such associated with our first idea of what would be the ancient image of what we’re trying to create, it’s an art form. It’s very simple as they do and it’s just like a drone. Then so Zulu, playing over the drone is very organic and very simple. And as we progress over time, digital gets more processed and more other layers are appearing that are going to be even more sophisticated at first and then more processed more synthetic, to, to kind of like, experience how that same piece, and the same concept will evolve towards the future.

Gregory Beylerian
And the visual is synchronized in a visual communicational format to the nature of the sound. So as the sound becomes more futuristic or digitally transformed, so does the artwork reveal a more synthesized? Expression?

Nico Borromeo
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So the way that this works for whoever is watching this and doesn’t know, is generative art. So basically, you are able to create your own piece of art based on the layers that we make. So almost like making a remix.

Gregory Beylerian
Right. And we have 12 visual elements, which is you can say cosmologically, tuned, interestingly, 12, there’s a lot of symbolism to the 12.

Nico Borromeo
So we have like four layers, and three variations of each layer. So there’s three layers, and so these layers will combine to make whatever you know, for you to make your own expression of AIDS, and you can choose from those three layers, those four layers, you can choose each variation. And because each variation will have associated both musically and visual, so whatever you choose, we will change the image, but it will also change the music that’s being played, or like it’s being created. And so that mix will always correspond and will always be coherent, and is going to be unique to you.

Gregory Beylerian
Beautiful. Yeah, I think that I think that explains the integration of these different art form disciplines with the technology to kind of create a new format to not only express this idea, but perhaps even provoke the consciousness

Nico Borromeo
right. So you experience yourself creating the art and being influenced by the sounds and the visuals, you see. We, we hope that you also resonate with with this intention, right?

Gregory Beylerian
Almost like creating your own creative key, a sonic audio visual key that is part of you can travel with you. And I mean, that’s perhaps the best use of Arts and creativity in our evolution process.

Nico Borromeo
Right. In other words, like your own artistic mantra,

Gregory Beylerian
right mantra, slash mandala? Yeah.

Nico Borromeo
We really hope everybody does try and explores this concept enjoys it and and that in generates something beyond us. Because like, as soon as we upload all these, it’s just doesn’t belong to us anymore. And it’s gonna be your own versions that will survive.

Gregory Beylerian

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