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Arsider: Buffering Machines of Freedom

Buffer
Technological “errors” can be seen as manifestations of the inherent contradictions within the capitalist system. In its continuous pursuit of efficiency and optimization, technology has been reduced to a tool of control, production, and surveillance.

For instance, the buffer is not merely a defect to be corrected but a product of the material conditions of the system. It is a slowdown imposed by resource overload, manifesting a paradox: it arises from the tension between the push for efficiency and the inability to maintain it in a world of finite resources, saturated devices, and failed interconnections.

To appreciate the signals of finiteness and dysfunction underlying the technological world we live in, it is necessary to familiarize ourselves with this “buffer.” The term takes on a meaning beyond its technical use: it is when the machine does not respond immediately that the fracture of the perpetual capitalist-technological operation, constantly in motion and always optimized, becomes apparent.

However, the buffer is not merely a stalling area but a surface of resistance, a “support plane” between perfect flow and the unforeseen. It is the moment when the system charges with potential, and the delay becomes a sign of dysfunction that cannot be controlled. Thanks to the buffer, chaos erupts within the machine: it is the place where error becomes visible, not only as inefficiency but as a space of critique against the capitalist dominance of infinite productivity.

Negative Feedback
Arsider is a system of “recombined erratic response.” Input: established technology, disciplinary tools, formalism. Output: noise, fracture, failure, tampering.

The process is carried out through intentional decomposition of individual functional units, a binary mechanism that does not foresee intermediation. Each device, information flow, or pre-combined calculation process undergoes a desynchronization treatment, an operational hack that polarizes its parameters. What was designed for maximum control is recalibrated to produce maximum indeterminacy.

The protocol through which the signal is “reconfigured” is radio transmissions: real-time, unstable connection, public flow. Arsider functions as a counter-production device. The techno-capitalist paradigms – efficiency, optimization, surveillance – are bypassed because the machines “generically” do not respond. Arsider pushes devices beyond their own failure, inciting them to shatter into their primordial code. The natural attempt to recompose order is subverted by the tactic of reassembling disintegration. The programming dissolves and adopts disorder as its native tongue.

The output is neither aesthetic nor functional: it is a corrupted datum that interrupts the regular flow of connections while being perfectly integrated into it. The parameter of sonic camouflage operates simultaneously with mechanisms of repulsion and attraction: it drives the listening of familiar and known sounds, as well as those unknown and aberrant because transfigured. ASMR, clipping, panning, use of spectral sounds, ostinato, autotune, digital noise, psychoacoustics are just some of the parasitic mimicry tactics practiced to transmit its propaganda message infiltrated into the communication flows in the era of advanced technological capitalism.

The Arsider system is anti-perfection. Each intervention destabilizes network nodes, reducing the margin of control. Every transmission is a simulation of freedom: non-linear, non-replicable, non-conformist, desirable. A process that triggers decomposition, amplifying, as the only plausible response to our times, the most absurd noise.

Impro
Improvisation is a primary protocol in the technological hacking practiced by Arsider. It is a mode of continuous sabotage that incorporates the effects of becoming, not as accidents to correct but as resources to exploit.
Arsider creates spaces for the unforeseen and for freedom at the friction point where predetermined flows are interrupted. Every instrument, every circuit is interrupted in its rational flow and treated as an element of the recomposition strategy. The technology used is susceptible to unplanned modifications to rebalance the absence of responses to commands and the production of non-linear responses.

Pure State
We live in societies of advanced control, where efficiency is religion, and prediction is law. Every breath, every click, every movement is recorded, analyzed, consumed, and summarized in standardization. Arsider, in its pure state, expresses the signals of a system that cannot be fully mapped or predicted.