Field Recordings releases on plottables.io March 28th at 2pm EST.
Claimable Plots
Each Field Recordings minted will come with a signed plot created by me. Originally these plots were to be made available for the price of shipping from the US, but with the recent increase in the price of ETH I would like to cover this cost myself where reasonable. DM me on Twitter (@jacobgoldart) or discord (jacobgold) to arrange shipping. Please note that it may take several weeks to produce and ship plots as I will be traveling for a significant portion of April and May.
Once a complimentary signed plot has been claimed, additional plots may be ordered for the same token. This approach seeks to eliminate future confusion between unique NFT and unique physical artwork, with the NFT better serving to maintain provenance.
I will maintain a list here of which tokens have or have not had their plot claimed.
Field Recordings
Recently I have been thinking about ways to translate my generative work into physical art. To this end in April 2023 I acquired a pen plotter.
Designing works for pen plotter requires that each image be composed entirely of lines. The natural starting place was to contort these lines into organic forms. This technique which interpolates between two flow fields is inspired by the one used in Coquina (2021), except that it is more computationally efficient and shapes are more similar to their neighbors.
Once I developed interesting shapes, I wanted to introduce emergent behavior that could produce surprising results. One reliable way to attempt this is to introduce some sort of interaction between individual components. In this case I start drawing the outline of each blob outwards from a single point; when the outline collides with an existing line on the canvas, it halts. When applying each successive blob to the canvas in an ordered manner, complex structures and shading emerged.
Finally I wanted to introduce a variety of compositional approaches to where these blobs are drawn. Each of these approaches is hand-picked to be interesting and distinctive, but I didn’t want the primary difference between outputs to be simply determined by a single roll of the dice. Mirroring the two flow fields responsible for the individual blobs, each composition is determined by interpolating between two different rules, creating both a greater multitude of possibilities and more cohesion between outputs.
The final result is a black and white image reminiscent of a drawing of an organism by a researcher. However, the term “field recording” generally refers to an audio recording made on site. In the same way that an audio recording only captures a place in a single moment and not in its entirety, each output of Field Recordings is a single expression of a larger algorithm that can never be completely captured.
