Whatever you now find weird, ugly,
uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its
signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap
sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as
they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is
the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its
limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of
something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer
with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful
for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of
bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too
momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
— Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices
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