The original title: "Jimi Hendrix's Analog Wizardy Explained."

> and the component was the Octavia guitar pedal, created for Hendrix by sound engineer Roger Mayer.

So, Roger was the engineer. And, Jimi was the artist.

Art and engineering are both constrained optimization problems - at their core, both involve transforming a loosely defined aesthetic desire into a repeatable methodology!

And if we can call ourselves software engineers, where our day-to-day (mostly) involves less calculus and more creative interpretation of loose ideas, in the context of a corpus of historical texts that we literally call "libraries" - are we not artists and art historians?

We're far closer to Jimi than Roger, in many ways. Pots and kettles :)