Chromatic Vibration Packet

I recently redesigned 0×6e.com after discovering a JPEG photo from my mobile phone which had compression artifacts all over it. While going through a folder of backed up files, I noticed a unexpected colorful icon and when I opened the file to see what it was, a colorful quilting filled my eyes. I became rigid with excitement.

Meticulously, I extracted each tile and placed the result in a layered Photoshop file. These tiny quilts of colorful joy are the episode icons for the 6e podcast.

A while back, my good friend, Collin Holmes and I were discussing frame interpolation on time-expanded footage with After Effects. We decided it would be interesting to take abstract imagery—watercolor brushstrokes or ink splatterss—and perform ridiculous time expansion on it. Last night I decided to give it a go with my JPEG quilts and Shake’s adaptive retiming.

Without further ado, here is the resulting animation backed by a layered loop cut from the track Perlence on Autechre’s new album Quaristice.

Listen to the original track