Abstract Machines

Abstract Machines is an exploration into the unspoken aesthetic dimension of Pure Data, a graphical programming environment made by Miller Puckette for realtime audio synthesis, and which has been expanded into a comprehensive toolkit for digital artists.

The project is a series of Pd patches that equally evoke Gilles Deleuze and Dr. Suess - illogical, fanciful, complex - and that have no other purpose or output but to function within their own bounds. And yes - they crashed my computer. :p