This excerpt is from Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code by Daniel Temkin, with a foreword by Allison Parrish, published in late 2025 as part of MIT Press’ Hardcopy line. It’s about unusual programming languages that might be thought of as works of art unto themselves. I was struck by how the same description could easily apply to the theoretical and conceptual music composition ideas that make up the weekly Disquiet Junto projects. I’m reading the book now, and will have more thoughts soon. I’m enjoying it very much, and taking it slowly, because it’s such a short volume.