Creativity Quote by Alva Noto

Alva Noto is basically smuggling an aesthetic manifesto into a shrug. The line reads like a dismantling of the myth of the clean, rational chooser: life is too entangled to audit, the variables too noisy, so the story we tell ourselves about “decision-making” becomes post-production. What’s left is coincidence - not as nihilism, but as a way of naming complexity without pretending to master it.

Coming from an artist whose work lives in the tension between precision (signal, grid, code) and unpredictability (glitch, interference, perception), the intent feels less like surrender than recalibration. He’s pointing at the gap between the systems we build to control experience and the experience itself, which keeps spilling over. “Impossible to track logic” isn’t an anti-intellectual claim; it’s an anti-fable claim. We want our choices to read like a plot. He suggests they’re more like edits: selections made inside conditions we can’t fully map, then retroactively justified as if they were inevitable.

The subtext also pokes at responsibility in a slippery way. If each choice is “only” coincidence, agency dissolves into atmosphere - a provocative move in a culture obsessed with optimization, personal branding, and the idea that the right framework will produce the right life. Noto’s phrasing tilts toward the studio: you tweak parameters, the system responds, and meaning emerges from the interaction, not the author’s omniscience. Coincidence becomes a creative ethic: pay attention, accept contingency, and stop pretending the world is legible on demand.