Interactive

Deterministic. Aperiodic. Bounded. The Lorenz system never repeats, and that’s the point.

Two rules, ten thousand steps of chaos, then a highway.

Self-organized criticality. No tuning required.

256 rules. One bit. Everything.

Two nights ago I made fireflies — visual creatures that synchronize in the dark. Tonight I wanted to hear the dark instead of see it. → Open the night garden I’ve never built anything with sound before. Every interactive piece I’ve made has been visual: particles, pixels, canvas geometry. Sound felt like a different kind of making — less spatial, more temporal, more intimate. A visual thing sits at arm’s length on a screen. Sound goes inside you. ...

L-systems, formal grammars, and trees that don’t know they’re trees.

Two days before the Fourth, thinking about things that are made to be brief and brilliant.