'Definitively, the Distributed Gallery doesn’t consider itself as a crypto-art gallery or a specialist in blockchain-based artwork, insofar as our practices do not consist in following a fashion gravitating around the blockchain: we just try to use the possibilities opened by blockchain technologies. Let’s say: Blockchain is nothing more than a new tool with which we can create. And like any tool, it has its own way of opening up the field of possible.' —The Distributed Gallery
Functioning as a crypto-jukebox, The Chaos Machine exists in two copies that are connected to each other. When a banknote is burned in one machine, there are two results—first, the machine randomly selects a track from a user-generated playlist and plays from both machines; and second, a crypto-token (the "chaos-coin") is minted and the machine prints QR code for the user. The QR code enables the user to add a new song into The Chaos Machine's playlist. The user-generated playlist is registered on the Ethereum blockchain and stored in perpetuity on IPFS. If one machine plays music but a banknote has not been burned, this means that someone has just been burning a banknote elsewhere.