Dan Sandin: It’s absurd. You just envision the conclusion and your hands do it.
Beatie Wolfe: Then you set it off in the world and just see what it does, without any needs or expectations.
Sandin: Of course there are still people debating whether or not that should be done.
Wolfe: I ended up doing the whole thing on my own, powering through.
Sandin: You can write your own nodes and extend the capabilities.
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Wolfe: The way that you’ll be doing that as a visitor is via this thinking cap, where the data corresponding to that area of the brain is encoded in man-made diamonds.
Sandin: A little bit of thinking made us realize that gains would be like fading in and out, multiplication would be like keying and addition would be like mixing sounds together is like superimposition.
Wolfe: But then as I was playing, people were waking up and singing along and clapping. Just really having a lot of fun.
Sandin: There are these kinds of lifestyle issues of being able to involve yourself in your art at all sorts of levels.
Wolfe: I just never accepted any of those limitations. [Laughs]
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Sandin: Yggdrasil is the tree of life in Norse mythology. That was the context for the original idea.
Wolfe: Yeah, there we go.
Sandin: I mean, that’s not gone.
Wolfe: And then the BBC showed up and wanted to do a whole episode around it.
Sandin: However, Linux boxes can probably do it.