by Erik Loyer

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In this series, which started with a visit to a random Wikipedia page, words extracted from the text of video game walkthroughs are set to music inspired by their soundtracks. The result is an alternate way to “play” the games, one that sheds light on the vocabulary of interactions built into them by their creators.

This installment combines gerunds from a walkthrough for the 1994 video game Super Metroid with music adapted from Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano's score.

Screenshot from The Ring-Bearer

The Ring-Bearer

A meditation on the “circles and circles, and circles” of exclusivity in Black life, inspired by Alice Randall’s book Black Bottom Saints.

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Layers of Language

It's translation, all the way down.

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Boss Verbs

Click through verbs describing the boss battles of the 1994 video game Earthworm Jim.

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