experiments in digital
I do not think anything is more irritating than this whole, left-brain, right-brain phallacy. If you’re a math person you’re a math person and if you’re an artist you’re an artist. What they’re really saying is that you’re either a nerd and you shouldn’t attempt to be creative under any circumstance or they think you’re to stupid to do anything else.
That’s intellectual cowardice - more to the point, it’s fucking dumb. The art/products/tools/art/experiments/art/failures/art here are a refutation.
We all like warm tube distortion. We all like an 1176 in crush mode. But while some companies pay people like us to do arcane math to replicate the nonlinearities of an LA-2A, we’re forgetting that these things are special because they were most assuredly happy accidents in the medium. Like [insert any fucking 20th century art history analogy here].
What you will find here takes an experimental, left-fucking-field approach to digital. They are an attempt to relinquish control. To create while letting the computer do its own thing. I consider designing these things therapeutic. A happy accident or a bad idea. I hope you find it interesting, if not a bit freeing. And thanks for visiting.
“The consistency with which you do something can convince even the most skeptic.”
— This dude who got expelled from high school and did killer shit for decades