beyond identifying something as “cool.” Taste requires experiencing the creation in its entirety and evaluating one’s own authentic emotional response to it, parsing its effect.

The deeper you get into the process, the more you realize this idea of man and machine — of disappearing into the computer — becomes a form of automatic writing. Sleight of hand. You almost don’t feel conscious when you’re working. For me, that’s the tipping zone into the man-machine idea. When I got into electronic music, I recognized early on tha

When you listen to the album, it lightly colors your sensory environment without getting in the way—you can do work while listening to it, or carry on a conversation, or meditate on it as an artwork.

As arduous as it could be, there was something illuminating about the process. After thinking so much about the variety of the visual world, I was seeing it in a way I never had before: as a single reality that includes accordions, blenders, cell phones, crayfish, lobsters, pizza, stop signs, umbrellas, and so many other things. There was a kind of