about me

2011-2012: played a lot with Korg DS-10, taught me about sound synthesis and sequencing.
2013: started making music on FL Studio and uploading it on SoundCloud as Zplit.
2014: signed a music track with System Recordings to get distributed on Beatport.
2015: released my first album on Bandcamp with 21 handmade CDs.
2015: YouTube channel Japanistic used my music on their videos, kickstarting an audience on my Creative Commons licensed music.
2016: released a synthpop single featuring juunana titled Trust Me that did 70k+ streams on Spotify and generated ~400 USD spent on audio gear.
2017: released Duvet, a Bôa cover as a tribute to Serial Experiments Lain.
2018: attended Coalchella, one of the first online music festivals on Minecraft (here's a umru message screenshot as proof).
early 2019: started college majoring on computer science.
july 2019: bought ETH for the first time.
november 2019: uploaded a track to IPFS and registered a ENS domain to it.
january 2020: tokenized a music track via Rarible using their 'unlockable' feature.
february 2020: tokenized Duvet as a gif and a website.
march 2020: created my own ERC-721 contract for music through Mintbase, and also released an audiovisual collaboration with VansDesign on SuperRare.
june 2020: contributed Spanish translations to the ENS app, and also minted an NFT with audio attached for the first time.
september 2020: produced a theme song for MetaFactory's Vaunker collaboration.
december 2020: released phantom EP on KnownOrigin alongside a single-edition CD.
early 2021: dropped out of college (lol)
april 2021: moved out on my own, started gender transition.
may 2021: released compaktloop EP on Zora.
august 2021: changed my name to Xedra.
september 2021: attended MCON, first crypto-related conference. DJ'd at a side-event and auctioned a CD with some of my tokenized music titled interFACE.
november 2021: released my first track as Xedra on Catalog.