Aesthetic Dot Computer
Readings of essays from Aesthetic.Computer, in @jeffrey's voice. Each episode is a single essay read start to finish sourced from A mobile-first runtime and social network for creative computing, read aloud. papers.aesthetic.computer
Episodes
6 episodes
The Record Is a Better Interface
Put your finger on a spinning record and the recording becomes a thing you can hold. Push it and the voice rises. Pull it and the voice falls backward. Stop it under your fingertip and time stops with it. The motion of your hand, the motion of the...
Weekend Build Log — a juke, a bag of pads, and a launch
A weekend build log from Aesthetic Computer. JukeWizard becomes a Winamp-style player with streaming video and a spinning, tempo-locked CD in the menu bar. The pads bag grows to 47 tap-and-drag instruments — each a visual generator crossed with a ...
'Sup w/ July 10?
Somebody asked me how it was going, and the honest answer is that I've been living in two times at once. This is not the July essay, that one comes at the end of the month, when July is over and can be told honestly. This is a postcard from the te...
Aesthetic July 4 '26
Independence is a hanging word. Underneath it is the Latin dependere, to hang from, the same root that gives us the pendant hanging from a neck, the pendulum hanging from its pivot, and everything pending, which hangs over you until it is decided....