Aphex Twin has jumped on the NFT bandwagon by selling an audiovisual piece for nearly 72 Ether.
Electronic music legend Aphex Twin is the latest artist to join the ongoing non-fungible token mania in the music industry.Richard D. James, popularly known as Aphex Twin, officially announced his own NFT release on major NFT platform Foundation on Saturday.I’m on @withFND 0x2B867e8B4EfDB9a792a5A9C5524B7f61CF143b4Ahttps://t.co/m8iEeChAzw— Aphex Twin (@AphexTwin) March 14, 2021
According to a linked page on Foundation, the project has sold an NFT piece at online auction for 72 Ether (ETH), worth around $127,917 at publishing time. The starting price of the piece was 1 ETH, or about $1,800.Entitled “/afx/weirdcore,” the audiovisual NFT piece appears to be a defective and animated version of the artist’s face, accompanied with Aphex Twin-written sound. The piece alludes to the cover of Aphex Twin’s I Care Because You Do
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