hyperbole_samosa

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Track Artist Roguentropy https://soundcloud.com/roguentropy

Bio

Sangarshanan is a Software Engineer from planet Earth who loves building stuff that helps and amuses him in equal measure. He discovered the joy of livecoding during Covid, realised what a superpower this is for someone with no formal music training. He loves playing around with audio samples and generating weird sounds with algorithms. When bored you can find him making absurdist memes, yet another spotify playlist or staring straight into the void

Zine Artist Sameera https://sameeramudgal4.wixsite.com/sameeramudgal

Bio

Sameera is a creative based in Amsterdam and Delhi. She uses coding as a medium to make music and visual art since 2024 and has performed live at Codedrift, Algorave, and WIPLabs. Having worked as a design researcher in edtech, public health, speculative design, AI and music, she has come to believe that all things are connected. Which is why she entertains multiple hobbies simultaenously, and believes that tools will show the way. She also enjoys regenerative design, futures, yoga, and open-source tech culture, and gets art inspiration from everywhere.

Process

Hyperbole samosa is an ode to two things I love that are absurdly different from each other: nature and memes. i always wanted this piece to have both these aspects come together in a track. it starts as a hyberbole with extended samples and streched hi-hats, segues into an interlude sample which i wanted to call "samosa" (just because), and ends with a chill electronic segment with breakbeat for posture. The quirky samples in Hyperbole samosa made me ping Roguentropy for a collaboration. Fortunately right in our first conversation, I resonated with how he described the chill-electronic genre of this track, with a bit of dreamy,organic predisposition, and I knew I wanted to recreate this vibe in visuals. Two popping elements in the track were birds and samosas. So I experimented with patterns and movements, mixed with company-style bird paintings of India in the Colonial era. I also gravitated towards mythological representation of birds as a provocation juxtaposed with Roguentropy's take on AI, which is meant to be ephemeral and hilarious.