Errata (2004) is a sound design piece meant to accompany an animation originally created by artist Alexander Stewart. To produce the work, he photocopied a blank sheet of white paper, then photocopied that copy, then that copy, and so on, until the machine naturally began to introduce ‘errors’ in the process (i.e., the dark marks you see). By scanning each of the several thousand resulting sheets, Stewart created an animation that tracked the movement of these errors across the page.

Once completed, Stewart asked me to create audio to accompany the animation. In order to stay close to the original spirit of his work, I recorded clips of guitar, piano, and synthesizer through the pinhole microphone on my laptop. The low-quality nature of the microphone introduced its own ‘errors’, such as digital clipping, distortion, background hiss, and feedback. I used the resulting clips as the basis of my sound design, which closely tracks the movements, dispersions, and color shifts of the original animation.