Quantum Error
In tape recording there is something called SNR meaning signal to noise ratio. What this entails is that when the signal is recorded it also gathers a tape hiss along with it if the tape is recorded at a high speed the signal is longer on the tape making the signal sound higher and the tape hiss noise lower giving the audio engineer a stronger signal making the recoding of music clearer. When recoding went to digital they thought that they would end the noise altogether with a clean digital signal however digital signals are square and analog sound are round and curvy so what happens in between the curves is the tail end of the square edge which makes a noise called quantumized error.
The Viet Nam war was the first war to be televised, which instigated many student protests against war. Because of the baby boom the younger generation of the time was the majority giving what for students of eighteen years of age the right to vote and be heard. During the protest of the Viet nam war there were slogans such as make love not war, peace and love. That was the love generation nearing the end of the age of automation with the introduction of plastics, bright colors and flower children. Now that we are in yet another war in the digital age there seems to be allot that is forgotten. Quantum error brings forth the peace, and love in a different light and couples it with hope. Transforming it from peace and love to peace love and hope. The element of hope is going to be needed if we intend to end war as the scale of war because of the privatising of war has grown in quantum leaps and bounds. Peace love and hope have all been said so much that people seem to just not hear it anymore, Maybe if they see it enough it will spread to the point wear they can hear it again. In the exhibition quantum error the words peace, love and hope are spoken into a recorder the sound wave is then magnified and colored peace is colored in a sky blue, love is colored in fuscia, and hope in orange on white canvases in-between the words are films I had previously made protesting the last war and alternative spending of the war budget dealing with homelessness and food waste. One titled black leather and white trash and the other frame of mind. They are viewed with ambient music representing quantumized error periodically at random the songs black leather and white trash or frame of mind appear in the mix at random.
