🎸 Dice Against Determinism — The Second Album by Jonathan Kendall

A Heavy Rock Odyssey About Entropic Dice, Vanishing Possibilities, and the Noise Inside the Machine

“What happens when randomness decays into inevitability?”
That’s the core question behind Dice Against Determinism, the second full-length experimental rock album by music artist and developer Jonathan Kendall (aka onojk123). Fueled by distorted riffs, glitch-tinged atmospheres, and conceptual weight, this album transforms a coding experiment into a full musical universe.

The project draws directly from Jonathan’s open-source repository:
👉 Byte Evolution Tracker
https://github.com/onojk/byte-evolution-tracker

Inside that code lives a strange kind of dice—entropic dice—that gradually become more deterministic with every roll. Each time a number appears, that number is eliminated from the dice for all future rolls. Entropy collapses. Probability narrows. Eventually, only a single remaining side—or none—survives.

This is randomness dying in slow motion.
This is order emerging from chaos.
And this is the blueprint for the album.

🎶 The Concept: A Rock Album About Entropic Fate

Dice Against Determinism translates this mathematical decay into sound.

Every track explores a different phase of the dice’s lifecycle:

Initial turbulence → noise-driven guitar textures
Shrinking possibility space → repeating motifs, thinning layers
The last remaining outcomes → stripped-down riffs and mechanical precision
The final collapse → silence, distortion, and a sense of grinding inevitability

This is heavy rock with a cerebral backbone—music shaped like a system approaching order.

The sound palette blends:

distorted electric guitars
industrial-leaning drums
glitchy percussive patterns
ambient drones
experimental structures inspired by algorithmic decay

It’s intense.
It’s conceptual.
And it’s unmistakably Jonathan Kendall—a collision of artistic expression and computational logic.

🎨 The Artwork: A Portion (Cropped from ‘Creative Efficiency’)

Artwork by onojk123
https://www.deviantart.com/onojk123/art/A-Portion-Cropped-from-Creative-Efficiency-708033978

The album cover—created years before the music—feels prophetic. A chaotic explosion of mirrored color and shape, the piece resembles symmetric collapse, a visual echo of the entropic dice concept:

swirling probability fields
mirrored fragments
abstracted figures dissolving into order
chaos locking into a central, final form

It looks like entropy fighting its last fight.
It looks like randomness closing in on certainty.

The art became the perfect visual anchor for the album’s theme:
the shrinking universe of possible outcomes.

🎧 Musical Themes & Track Identity

Each song corresponds to a specific moment in the dice’s “life cycle”—a philosophical twist on procedural logic. Titles such as:

First Toss in Silence
The Gradient Unwinds
Inertia of Chance
Convergence Toward the Undefined
Dice Without Faces
Echoes in Configuration Space
Fragment of the Final Face

…mirror your personal fascination with probability, systems thinking, and the blurring boundary between chaos and inevitability. The music is experimental, yet solidly rooted in modern heavy rock. It’s designed for listeners who crave both sound and meaning.

🧠 The Code Behind the Sound

The Byte Evolution Tracker repository runs simulations of “shrinking dice”—a computational metaphor for diminishing randomness. Watching the numbers collapse is strangely poetic:

Roll after roll, the universe gets smaller.
Choices fade.
Entropy slips into structure.

This idea doesn’t just inspire the album—it is the album.

Your workflow merges:

high-energy rock composition
code-driven conceptual frameworks
visual art from your DeviantArt archive
your ongoing evolution as a multidisciplinary digital/musical creator

It is a full system, spanning code, visuals, and sound.

🌀 Why This Album Matters in Your Discography

Your debut album explored wide-open sonic spaces, cosmic ambience, and storytelling.
This second album, in contrast, is tighter, heavier, and thematically compressed—fitting for a project about narrowing outcomes.

It’s the moment where your identity as a developer-artist-musician fully converges.

The code becomes concept.
The art becomes symbol.
The music becomes narrative.

It is experimental, bold, and entirely its own ecosystem.

🔥 Closing Thoughts

Dice Against Determinism isn’t just a rock album.
It’s a meditation on probability.
A soundtrack to collapsing entropy.
A musical reflection of a coding project that transforms mathematics into emotion.

This is Jonathan Kendall’s work at its most integrated—art, music, and programming woven into one coherent vision.