It’s hard to think of a work more self-explanatory than Collapse. An EP from Aphex Twin with visuals by Weirdcore, the project is the latest in the ongoing collaboration between Richard D. James and the London-based visual artist. The visual realm created for Collapse is as it claims to be: a computer-generated world created solely with the purpose to fold in on itself. An act of auto-destructive art and, if watched on a loop as Weirdcore suggests – if your brain can handle it – an act of birth and death ad infinitum.

“We wanted to see what it would be like for an AI to trip,” Weirdcore explains, discussing the collaboration. Weirdcore not only spent most of the first half of 2018 working on this project, but also on the whole 360 experience of its release, including its mysterious posters. Optical illusions appeared everywhere from the underground to storefronts to the hanging foliage adorning otherwise innocuous Los Angeles buildings. “People were really trying to decode them, but it meant nothing at all like what people were suggesting,” he confirms wryly.