Not 'art': experiments.

Michael Forrest
Tue 11 Nov 2008
It dawned on me that the word 'art' in the primary navigation of my new website was a word put in my mouth by other people. It hasn't been sitting right with me at all, beyond being a conveniently short catch-all word for my creative pursuits.

'Experiments' is a term that captures much more precisely the nature of the work I have placed here. Everything you will find is experimental on some level - be it an attempt to push my own boundaries, or the boundaries of music in general. Less obvious are the experiments where I have developed a process - usually geared around creating work extremely rapidly. I get bored if any remotely subjective project takes me longer than a day or two to create. So, while you may have seen the sort of fast cutting and micro-manipulation that is present in a few of my YouTube videos done before by others, I have replaced their painstaking approach with a loose, fast, easy approach of my own, allowing me to throw stuff together very quickly. Where possible I will use the edge features of new software, but to be sure, I often prefer to program my own tools.

While a lot of what I have done might perhaps be considered 'art' by others (I'd like to hope so anyway), as far as I'm concerned, these are technical experiments or creative attempts to achieve certain emotinal effects, created quickly by delegating as much monkey-work to the computer as possible.

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