Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
@sethcooke.bsky.social
filling noise with space
https://sethcooke.bandcamp.com
https://everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
speculation mine
Bristol, UK
https://sethcooke.bandcamp.com
https://everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
speculation mine
Bristol, UK
Zr + 4HC1 → ZrC14 + 2H2U + 3F2 → UF6
Roberto Altmann
Excerpt from his Geste Hypergraphique. There's a copy at Southeran's going for £700.
sotherans.co.uk/products/alt...
Which is also where Frédéric Acquaviva is curating a rare Lettrist UK exhibition.
www.cassiusandco.com/poet-artists...
Roberto Altmann
Excerpt from his Geste Hypergraphique. There's a copy at Southeran's going for £700.
sotherans.co.uk/products/alt...
Which is also where Frédéric Acquaviva is curating a rare Lettrist UK exhibition.
www.cassiusandco.com/poet-artists...
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Zr + 4HC1 → ZrC14 + 2H2U + 3F2 → UF6
Roberto Altmann
Excerpt from his Geste Hypergraphique. There's a copy at Southeran's going for £700.
sotherans.co.uk/products/alt...
Which is also where Frédéric Acquaviva is curating a rare Lettrist UK exhibition.
www.cassiusandco.com/poet-artists...
Roberto Altmann
Excerpt from his Geste Hypergraphique. There's a copy at Southeran's going for £700.
sotherans.co.uk/products/alt...
Which is also where Frédéric Acquaviva is curating a rare Lettrist UK exhibition.
www.cassiusandco.com/poet-artists...
Catching up with Friday's excellent releases.
NP | STARDUST - DANNY BROWN
NP | MERCY - ARMAND HAMMER
NP | STARDUST - DANNY BROWN
NP | MERCY - ARMAND HAMMER
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Catching up with Friday's excellent releases.
NP | STARDUST - DANNY BROWN
NP | MERCY - ARMAND HAMMER
NP | STARDUST - DANNY BROWN
NP | MERCY - ARMAND HAMMER
Has anyone tried playing these simultaneously?
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Has anyone tried playing these simultaneously?
Three quarters of the way through. Seems a lot in service of a little. Disappointing insta-purchase. :(
NP | Lux - Rosalía
NP | Lux - Rosalía
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Three quarters of the way through. Seems a lot in service of a little. Disappointing insta-purchase. :(
NP | Lux - Rosalía
NP | Lux - Rosalía
First they took our criminals, and I said nothing, for I wasn't a criminal.
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
First they took our criminals, and I said nothing, for I wasn't a criminal.
COLDSTREAM EMPIRE - my new album, out today.
One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times.
everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times.
everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
COLDSTREAM EMPIRE - my new album, out today.
One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times.
everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times.
everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
In case anyone is sad that the abnormie format got crushed into a normie format, I've also put 'Method of Loci #4: Fracture Patterns' up on sale. 12 page publication up alongside the tabloid, concrete cube and business card CDr (lol, which are still in stock 'cos no fucker can play them/wants them).
November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In case anyone is sad that the abnormie format got crushed into a normie format, I've also put 'Method of Loci #4: Fracture Patterns' up on sale. 12 page publication up alongside the tabloid, concrete cube and business card CDr (lol, which are still in stock 'cos no fucker can play them/wants them).
Thanks, I hadn't seen those. That in turn puts me in mind of my rejected submission for the In the Field 2 symposium - that these technologies have come to operate a new kind of extractivist colonialism, that is beginning to supplant/rival the cartographic map as a tool of exploitation.
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Thanks, I hadn't seen those. That in turn puts me in mind of my rejected submission for the In the Field 2 symposium - that these technologies have come to operate a new kind of extractivist colonialism, that is beginning to supplant/rival the cartographic map as a tool of exploitation.
If you're tempted to argue with the pixel's definition of "beauty", don't fall for it. It's not thinking or feeling, it's just emergent properties of training on a dataset. Arguing about "beauty" accepts the premise of the technology. If this was about art, the technology would work differently.
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If you're tempted to argue with the pixel's definition of "beauty", don't fall for it. It's not thinking or feeling, it's just emergent properties of training on a dataset. Arguing about "beauty" accepts the premise of the technology. If this was about art, the technology would work differently.
Hence screengrabs: if I want to preserve more than one "reimagining", I have to work outside the affordances of the app. This starts to align to how I think about art. Whatever aesthetic value you place on these "reimaginings", exposing the artistic poverty of the UX design ethos qualifies as art.
November 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hence screengrabs: if I want to preserve more than one "reimagining", I have to work outside the affordances of the app. This starts to align to how I think about art. Whatever aesthetic value you place on these "reimaginings", exposing the artistic poverty of the UX design ethos qualifies as art.
Notice the extent of the anti-art ethos that's been constructed into the UX. Of the four "reimaginings", it forces me to choose only one. The idea that anyone might like and wish to preserve more than one is anathema. The UX design ethos is that these are equally disposable.
November 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Notice the extent of the anti-art ethos that's been constructed into the UX. Of the four "reimaginings", it forces me to choose only one. The idea that anyone might like and wish to preserve more than one is anathema. The UX design ethos is that these are equally disposable.
My wife has a turn of phrase: she likes to surround herself with things that are "either beautiful or useful." She used to work for Ordinance Survey. Pixel's prompt is "reimagine as", so inspired by her I took the same map and prompted, "something neither beautiful nor useful", with these results...
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My wife has a turn of phrase: she likes to surround herself with things that are "either beautiful or useful." She used to work for Ordinance Survey. Pixel's prompt is "reimagine as", so inspired by her I took the same map and prompted, "something neither beautiful nor useful", with these results...
just discovered the bizarre "reimagine" function that appeared on my google pixel's photo editor during the last software update - in this case, "reimagining" an ordinance survey map via the prompt "a different map"
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
just discovered the bizarre "reimagine" function that appeared on my google pixel's photo editor during the last software update - in this case, "reimagining" an ordinance survey map via the prompt "a different map"
dishwasher apparition
October 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
dishwasher apparition
NP | fleshdeath - svn4vr
October 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NP | fleshdeath - svn4vr
phantom limb
generative fill feedback til the function failed
generative fill feedback til the function failed
October 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
phantom limb
generative fill feedback til the function failed
generative fill feedback til the function failed
phantom limb
generative fill feedback til the function failed
generative fill feedback til the function failed
October 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
phantom limb
generative fill feedback til the function failed
generative fill feedback til the function failed
Great Friday for new music. Earl Sweatshirt is reliably great, Carrier is solid if you're into Photek & der Burial of Omit.
October 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Great Friday for new music. Earl Sweatshirt is reliably great, Carrier is solid if you're into Photek & der Burial of Omit.
phantom limb
generative fill feedback until the function failed
generative fill feedback until the function failed
October 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
phantom limb
generative fill feedback until the function failed
generative fill feedback until the function failed
phantom limb
generative fill feedback until the function failed
generative fill feedback until the function failed
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
phantom limb
generative fill feedback until the function failed
generative fill feedback until the function failed