empress - ZOIA
boxed up for portability, power supply, mini-amp and radio included, also a little storage for SD-card, cables and manuals. favela-style, in a hands-on pursuit of what seems to be an initial impulse of the ZOIA-concept.
“I love Pure Data, but since I program all day for work, the idea of creating patches in front of a screen doesn’t appeal to me,” Bragg says. “So the idea of ZOIA was to be able to create PD-like patches without a computer. In PD, you have objects; the analog in the ZOIA are modules. You place down modules on ZOIA’s grid and connect them together in whatever way you want. No need for a computer!” Bragg pauses for a second, reflecting, before self-correcting. “So I lied when I said there was no need to use a computer with the ZOIA, because... “ (Steve Bragg: eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/08/making-guitar-pedals-freaking-mental-steve-bragg-empress-effects-on-developing-the-zoia/)
we always might pardon a lie as long as it is a poetic one.
