About Bearly Bass
470 bass loops. One instrument. One person.
How irrelevant can you be in 2026? NFTs and bass loops. Almost nothing is less relevant. When the NFT wave broke in 2021, the fit was immediately clear. The collection of loops was already closed, already structured into series and keys, already hand-played. The right shape for an NFT collection, finished a decade too early.
In a Vienna studio in the summer of 2010, a 1977 Fender Jazz Bass was played across a few weeks of daily sessions, every take captured live. The work runs to 94 bass loop series, each in five musical keys, 470 unique recordings in total.
One person recorded every loop. The web application, the smart contract, and the visual system around them came from the same hands. Bearly Bass is an art project, one person's output across music, code, and design.
One person's life, converging
A bass player who studied law. An engineer who watched the blockchain space for years. A builder who finally wrote his own smart contract for recordings that had been sitting there since 2010.
Music. Law. Engineering. Code. Blockchain. AI. From outside it reads like a career change every few years. From inside it was always the same project, picking up whatever new tool the next phase put in reach.
The bass lines themselves had been carried in the head for years before the recordings happened.
From 2010 to the chain
Bearly Bass was founded in March 2011 as a small web page for sharing and downloading the recordings, years before NFTs were a category. The loops have been online ever since, played, downloaded, and folded into other people's tracks. By the time the token market took shape, the work had already been out in the world for over a decade.
The token collection is 470 ERC-721 tokens on Ethereum, one per loop, in a fixed supply. The audio stays open to everyone, free to use in any production. The token itself carries provenance and collectibility, a thread back to the day a specific take was played in Vienna. Fifteen years from the studio to the chain, the same 470 takes intact, open to play and on chain to own.
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