Adversarial Arithmetic by MOULE

ADVERSARIAL ARITHMETIC - While exploring The Labyrinth, the copies of Lampy invented a strange new method called "Adversarial Arithmetic" that allowed them to scan The Labyrinth much faster, finding the address that had the security token to Delgado's cell!

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• Cover Art Timelapse: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=Js0wvBmHWCo

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Adversarial Arithmetic is actually one of my older tracks; it was created on September 4, 2017 under its original title "Cyborgs Can Dance, Too". It was named this for over 7 years until it was remastered into its current form on February 7, 2025 and chosen to be Adversarial Arithmetic for the CTRL album.

Initially, I considered other tracks I've "finished" (well not really, they need to be remastered), like "PEW PEW PEW!!!!" and "XHeight", to become Adversarial Arithmetic (and even mixed elements from those two tracks to see how it'd sound) but at the last minute, I had the idea to repurpose Cyborgs Can Dance Too, a track I had planned for a future album and featuring Oskar in its cover artwork, to become Adversarial Arithmetic instead as I think it best sounds like what the title describes.

Melody first mentioned Adversarial Arithmetic on the MOULE WORLD Mastodon server as a strategy Catherine at the Department of Computation could use to help them quicker: https://mastodon.moule.world/@Melody/112887907666753789

This cover artwork started off fairly simply, with me just copying Lampy from the cover art of its synonymous track, making copies of it, and colouring them differently, then assigning them different mathematical operations. It was tricky because I had to keep grouping and un-grouping the individual shapes making up each of the Lampies because I wanted to add more details to them.

Then the fun part: designing Adversarial Arithmetic's title art! I opted for something bold, jarring yet playful at the same time to symbolise the unconventional approach the copies of Lampy took to explore The Labyrinth.

The next tricky part was positioning them in the cover art, and to emphasise the math symbols in their eyes I cropped out their wings and just had their eyes and interlocked antennae, which like the Lampies took a while to get just right because I wanted to add more detail to the antennae and show that they interlock.

Not shown in this cover art timelapse was that when I was putting on the final details and making the glowing background, Assembly, the graphic design app for iPad I use, repeatedly kept crashing. I had to export the gradient background and the main cover art separately, and use Enlight (now Photofox) to add the background back.

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Tracklist

1.	Adversarial Arithmetic	7:12

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released February 15, 2025

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