Vaporwave Aesthetic
Banana (2020), Cody J Luke.
Seagulls and slow waves lapping at the low electronic buzz of a disk reader. I heard it over the static-ridden hum of a radio, perhaps the soundscape was delivered through a rusting pair of speakers hanging on the wall above me. Mall music. Where had I been these past few hours?
Working on a vaporwave a e s t h e t i c here. I like to think the music would be coastal but bustling, like near an ice cream van. Maybe all this isolation is making me nostalgic. Just a simple collage made in photoshop with some less obvious colour edits.
Glitch
I have experimented with the wordpad method. Glitch is somewhat removed from design, broken things are hardly good design. It's more useful in fine or conceptual art. Glitch is common in the video and film arena. Digitally 'soaked' audiences derive pleasure from the aesthetic of tech which 'hangs-on' despite damage or disrepair. It is a storytelling trope. Degradation was in the past a drawback of analogue mediums, but serves up a delicious nostalgia in contemporary devices and fragile data which become easily and totally inoperable/inacessible when impaired.
This used to be a coherent image of socialites at the vivid festival in sydney - see below:
As you can see the wordpad method is highly destructive. Removing colour channels proved fascinating also. Shifting the RGB in a sound editing program usually results in a nicer stylised glitch reflecting most of the original image. There are many ways to break and bend, but not totally corrupt files.
Let me know what you think!
