Hello,

Back in February we announced a series of releases and projects for 2022 - all made possible thanks to a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England.

We're excited to announce the first release of the year, a 4 track EP by digital selves (aka Lizzie Wilson) entitled error topography.

• Stream the first single and pre-order the release on our Bandcamp: https://cherche-encore.bandcamp.com/album/error-topography

• The EP will be released together with visual artwork by Joana Chicau, and will be premiered at Corsica Studios this coming Thursday 31/03/2022. Tickets are available here: https://ra.co/events/1499155.

• We made a small trailer for the project, head over to our IG or Twitter to have a look. Otherwise here's a snap -

About the release

There's a few influences in error topography, the main and obvious one is digital selves' love for rave and dance music. You can hear it in her use of playful drums and emotional stabs. The EP was composed with live-coding tools such as Tidal Cycles and so you can also hear a generative aspect in the tracks. The EP tries to create an imaginary sonic world that one can explore, almost as if sounds - and the code under those sounds - were laid out as a map.

To accompany the release, digital selves wrote a short text:

Abstraction is no longer the map, simulation no longer the territory. Borge’s cartographers can draw a map so detailed it can cover the territory exactly. The cartographers are in the world of the hyper real, we are there with them.

It is the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - that generates the territory.

I am looking out at white snow in a hallucinatory fog. I reach out to touch it and it disappears. Mirrors become viscous surfaces, the reflective becomes objective. It is not reality but the subject dissolving.

About the artists

digital selves aka Lizzie Wilson is a musician, researcher and live-coder. Her debut EP was released on Belgian label i.u. She recently featured in Fact Magazine’s Artist DIY series where she presented her live-coding practice. She has previously performed live at Cafe Oto, Corsica Studios, Iklectik, New River Studios, No Bounds Festival (Sheffield), Bangface Festival (Southport).

soundcloud.com/digitalselves
lwlsn.github.io/digitalselves-web/

Joana Chicau is a graphic designer, researcher and coder, with a background in choreography and performance. She is currently an associate lecturer at UAL Creative Computing Institute and Graphic and Media Design at London College of Communication. And a member of Varia.Zone, center for everyday technology and co-founder of Netherlands Coding Live.

joanachicau.com