Artist’s Statement
When I was a young boy I had the misfortune of being utterly obsessed with a topic that my peers found variously boring, perplexing, or simply vaporous: boxes. Specifically, boxes inside of other boxes, arranged in an infinite string of self-similar, recursive splendor. I remember spending long hours after school organizing my substantial collection of boxes by size from largest to smallest, placing each box inside its predecessor. I wasn’t sure exactly what was so fascinating about the activity except that it seemed to get at the heart of some profundity that I couldn’t quite access verbally, but seemed persistent and true none-the-less.
It wasn’t until many years later that I began gaining the vocabulary necessary to talk about loops, recursions, and feedback. By that time I had already decided that I was going to be an artist in some capacity, and found myself by a strange twist of fate heavily involved in the sonic arts. As with many artists, it seemed natural to me to begin by revisiting my most haunting childhood preoccupation. And so the boxes inside of boxes were reborn through the womb of music technology.
