任何新兴媒介所带有的什么怪异、丑陋、不舒服和令人讨厌的地方，都将成为它的标志。CD 的失真，数字视频的抖动，8-bit 的劣质声音——在它们变得可以被避免之后，所有这些都将被珍视和模仿。这是一种来自于失败的声音：许多现代艺术都是事物失控的声音，是一种媒介走向极限并分崩离析的声音。吉他的声音之所以会扭曲，是因为它的音量大过了限制。蓝调歌手的沙哑嗓音是一种感情用事的哭泣，声音太过强烈，以至喉咙无法释放出来。电影胶片的颗粒，过度曝光失去细节的黑白灰带来的兴奋感，是一种见证重大事件的兴奋感，因为这些媒介的缺陷恰好证明这些事件对于纪录它的媒介来说太过有分量了，超过了它们承载的能力，无法被记录下来。 ——Brian Eno（1996）
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surety become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all otthese will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modem art is the sound of things going out orcontrol, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events tm momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
- Brian Eno (1996)