Faiumu Matthew Salapu a.k.a Anonymouz_37hz | Wānanga NFT

Nau mai! Welcome to our next wānanga on our blockchain / NFT Kaupapa with my bro Faiumu Matthew Salapu aka @anonymouz_37hz Anonymouz is a multi talented artist, music producer, visionary, blockchain navigator and all round awesome dude. Right now he’s on a residency creating a major audio visual work, ‘RESAMPLE TATAU’ (Tali le ‘au - lean into the pain). This kaupapa dives into his Samoan whakapapa, into the art of Tatau and will be world premiered March 9th at the 2022 Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts in Wellington. “Receiving my tatau back in 2015 by Su’a Suluape Paulo Junior of the prestigious Sā Su’ā SULUAPE TATAU-marks Of Polynesia clan, I had a microphone setup recording the tapping sounds and spatial ambience of my seven sessions. These recordings are now being resampled into a seven movement, foundational 62 minute soundscape layer using hip hop music production techniques interwoven with music composition, avant garde sound design, orchestral string arrangement, indigenous Moana Pacific instrumentation, video production and live performance. As a digital producer in a world currently integrating into an emerging digital asset economy, this work’s conceptual nature also marks a pivot for myself into blockchain applications, where I will be exploring exciting new technologies like decentralised Web3.0, cryptocurrency and NFT's (Non-Fungible-Tokens) that will also inform the work’s final forms and opportunities for audience equity in it.” - Faiumu Matthew Salapu No reira e te whānau, tune in to hear us deep dive into: - how we can lay a cultural foundation in the blockchain / metaverse that will be a touchstone for our rangatahi who will inevitably end up in this space. - the kaupapa of RESAMPLE TATAU and how he intends to use blockchain / NFT technology to weave in with his art form and communicate it to the world. - how NFTs might influence or change the music industry. - how these technologies can help us connect more with our ahurea / culture and our homelands.