PROCESS ZINE — miscommunication as format
Somehow the universe handed me the most on-theme idea yet.
Since signal // noise won’t exist digitally — no streaming, no Bandcamp, no easy link — I realised the release can mirror the communication barriers I deal with daily.
I can’t use the phone. Companies won’t use email or webchat. So whole conversations vanish into the wrong medium, trapped in a channel I can’t access.
So I’m sending Suno a cassette.
A literal analogue “phone call.” Sixteen tracks printed onto a format the machine can’t parse. No QR code. No download. No link to the full album. Only the digital-only bonus tracks will be accessible, like captions that only cover half the conversation.
If the album is about mishearing, misclassification, and APD… then letting the full version exist in a format the system cannot read feels exactly right.
A finished record that may remain unheard. A signal trapped in its carrier. A conversation sent through the wrong interface.
Images of cassette + 4-panel J-card prototype (a quick b/w laser mockup).
