Retro

When I kick the bucket drum, I’ll leave behind three creations: my spawn and 10 buckets of bits. One bucket full of code and another brimming with notes. /* No, not these kinds of notes. */ Perhaps the artifact in this Game Over scene will instead be more akin to a single, large, loud volume where .exe and .wav files have gone to fade out their filename extensions and merge with abandon. In the game loop of my biocomputer, this is the degree to which for-loops and 16-bar loops play off each other and engage in a constant, consonant, interdisciplinary dance of call and response. I am reflecting not on some shallow, semantic version of symbols and cymbals in symbiosis but a real, requisite reciprocity recursing deep into namespace SubBass. ...

Stravinsky talked about the concept of creative limitation in music being useful in order to reach new and different results. There have been TED talks on limitations as an upside. (LaaU?) Publications like Harvard Business Review and Forbes have written about constraints breeding creativity. Since the concept became somewhat popular, it can sometimes feel like way too much lemonade-making and not enough being pelted with a dozen lemons in the face with your eyes open. ...