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Re:Generative Bad Handwriting by codetrotter on Sunday September 20, 2020 @11:49PM (#24539608)
> Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content”. With the nonspecificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret.

Related to this I came to think of something that I found interesting a couple of days ago.

I was making music, and to add some voice to my melodies I began typed out a mixture of gibberish and actual sentences and I chopped them up and re-assembled them and gave them a pleasant sounding flow. Finally I threw some reverb on top and then I played with my keyboard to it.

When I listened to it, I found meaning in it, so then on my next session I wrote a dialog for the song between two people, and kept listening to it over the stuff I had made in the previously mentioned part of the process and tweaked the dialog.

And during all of this, I was finding a story that I don’t think I could have come up with if it wasn’t for this. And yet it was there, but it was in what I was hearing in the reassembled mish-mash of words and nonsense.

At one point I even laughed out loud to myself at the story that was coming together.

That’s pretty closely related to this asemic writing I think.

Re:Generative Bad Handwriting by 082349872349872 on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:50AM (#24540235)
Eighteenth century generative philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine

Fourteenth century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull#Mechanical_aspect

Ninth century BC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

Also: "abstract comics"

    Picture yourself in a boat on a river
    With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Re:Generative Bad Handwriting by dumb1224 on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:35AM (#24541417)
As a joke I can confirm that something similar happened to me frequently when I first moved to Europe late 2000s. As a non-native English speaker and because of the thick accent of the local people I constantly mis-heard and made stories out of the completely ordinary daily conversation and amused myself, only find out later it was nothing like what I thought it was.
Re:Generative Bad Handwriting by zkim on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:26AM (#24540108)
Sounds pretty neat, can you share some audio samples?
Re:Generative Bad Handwriting by FlashBlaze on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:51AM (#24540236)
Would really like to hear some samples