Image of noise
cf Earl Sweatshirt album cover art: the blur and the "Gen Z hard cut" of video v. millenial pause, boomer angle (had shared in previous IG story, cant remember when)
informality, disposability are "gen ai imagery" really "disposable aesthetics"?
editing video in a language that one is only partially fluent in.
how does the translation work? context, agency
the idea behind literate programming, too -- the idea that the stuff for humans should be the default context, and the highly constrained stuff parsed by the computer should be an exceptional mode within that
try SoundCloud for notetaking — since Reduct already biases towards recognition
you're going to push people to make sound in the ways that are legible to the computer. you may start to think that the text is the 'canonical' format
legibility
a cheap physical object, made of sound instead of writing, where both consuming it and creating it feel immediately at hand.
audio being linearly experienced?
cf. Ted Chiang story of your life / Arrival alien language
the device immediately (or even in real time, while you're speaking?) prints out a little receipt that 'contains' (that is) the audio that it just recorded2
closest approximation to orthographic recording, almost: receipt printer formulation suggests something more akin to photography
very highly rendered fake world