#emptyset

This year’s best drone albums do more than offer steady, immersive tones; they also tackle weighty issues and serve as the voices of the voiceless.  The topics include the erasing of history, the removal of human rights, the specter of totalitarianism and the denial of climate change.  By delving into ancestry, nature and spirituality, these albums express a deep dissatisfaction with the world,…

Before vs After gotg Volume 3

Artist: EmptySet

ASCII visualiser — study #01

Built a browser visualiser that speaks in glyphs instead of bars. ASCII as coded language → misrecognition → APD. Spacebar swaps the symbol on beat; keys punch the signal (I invert, G glitch burst, E edge-stretch, S stutter, N noise surge, B blackout, Z/X zoom, H heavy smear). Everything is grayscale, photocopy-crushed, and a little wrong.

This clip uses Emptyset’s Fragment as the motion reference. Next: feed signal // noise stems through this, then back out through The Interpreter — CRTs, waveform/oscilloscope, VHS and Hi-8 — for another round of recursive distortion until the caption becomes the sound.

Try it out: https://processzine.org/visualiser