I Think In Components

From XML to EDM: The Art of Rebuilding Everything From the Parts

My friends call me a digital music collage artist—which is a fancy way of saying I repurpose and rearrange bits of audio into reworked remixes of popular dance tracks. I take stems—those individual pieces of a song like vocals, bass lines, and drum loops—and weave them into something fresh. Something that moves you, maybe even makes you sweat a little (or a lot) on the dance floor.

See also: The Audio Wrangler channel on SoundCloud

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Dragonfly Garden (2023) by Scott Abel — Jewelry on board in acrylic resin

That instinct to break things down and build them back up again doesn’t stop with music. It shows up in my art, too.

I make art using discarded components from old, broken, costume jewelry. Not to fix them. Not to make new jewelry. But to make something else entirely—art born from scraps of jewelry. And, not surprisingly, it’s the same instinct that drives my work in technical documentation.