Jesperish

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Foundation

With a background in graphic design, my work is rooted in structure, composition, and visual precision. Over time, it evolved into a more instinctive and expressive process, where emotion flows directly into digital form through fast, intuitive creation using digital tools and mixed media.


Music & Cultural Influence

Digital Expressionism is shaped by early 2000s electronic bass music and underground digital aesthetics, especially drum and bass, dub, and neurofunk artists like Noisia and Spor. It translates the energy of sound into texture, movement, and atmosphere. Growing up in online communities and rave culture deeply influenced its emotional foundation.



Being from the Netherlands has also played a significant role in shaping this practice. The country has long been recognized as one of the world's leading hubs for electronic dance music, with a culture that extends from internationally renowned festivals and clubs to a strong legacy of electronic music innovation. While my work is rooted in the darker, more experimental side of bass music rather than mainstream EDM, growing up in an environment where electronic music is deeply embedded in everyday culture reinforced my connection to sound as both a social and artistic experience.



Synesthesia & Visual Experience

Through synesthesia, music becomes visual. Sound triggers textures, shapes, and immersive environments. Heavy bass and electronic rhythms directly inform the emotional and visual language of the work.


Aesthetic & Process

The work draws from movements like Metalheart and Cybersigilism, embracing digital artifacts, distortion, and layered textures. Instead of hiding software imperfections, they are amplified as emotional expression. Each piece is built through years of experimentation, often recycling and reconstructing older works in a process similar to music production, layering, sampling, and distortion.


Resolution & Vision

All works are created in extremely high resolution, preserving dense detail and texture. What began as inspiration has become collaboration, as I now work within the music industry alongside artists who shaped this culture.

Digital Expressionism reflects underground electronic culture and explores emotion, identity, and transformation through sound and image, built in dialogue with the community that inspired it.

When I was growing up, my dad had a laptop, and he used to play a few games on it. One of those games was Need for Speed. As soon as I was old enough to understand, I started playing it myself. I liked it so much that I continued playing the entire Need for Speed series. I went from Need for Speed: Porsche 2000 to Need for Speed: Underground, Need for Speed: Underground 2, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Wipeout Fury HD, and Need for Speed: Carbon.


Through these games, I started discovering drum and bass, breakbeat, and dubstep. Songs such as You'll be under my wheels by The Prodigy, Machine Gun by Noisia, Blood Sugar by Pendulum, and Broken Sword by Evol Intent deeply resonated with me.


Somehow, these songs hit me hard, and I loved them instantly, without any prior background or influence in dubstep or drum and bass. It felt like a whole new world was opening up for me. Since I have synesthesia, I could see all kinds of visuals while listening to this music, almost like alien worlds and explosions of energy.


Around that same time, I also discovered YouTube and searched for those songs. That is how I found the drum and bass and breakbeat rave culture. Through Noisia, I discovered Spor. These artists became some of my main influences. Their cover art and music felt revolutionary to me. It truly was a transformative period in electronic music, a niche subculture that sparked something deep within me.


At the same time, I was already creating digital art, influenced by my family, who are also artists. We had the tools, and through gaming communities I met many people who were creating digital art as well. I was around 12 years old when I started making digital art.


The drum and bass music we loved was often used in videos we created about art and games. We shared this passion together, building large groups and teams where everyone had their own role. Some were gamers, some were artists, and others were managers. This was around the time the first major Call of Duty teams started to emerge, groups like FaZe Clan, SoaR Gaming, and OpTic Gaming.


Drum and bass and dubstep, especially releases from UKF, were extremely popular at the time.


Later, when I was old enough, I started attending raves and parties myself. I saw Noisia and Spor live multiple times, among many others. I knew almost every popular artist from that era, every tune, every beat. I could express myself deeply through that music. I fully immersed myself in dark drum and bass, neurofunk, and halftime genres.


Year after year, I tried to define this culture and aesthetic more deeply through my art and self-expression. Digital Expressionism is the result of all of this, a process of recycling and refining art over and over again until it evolves into something complete. Artworks that breathe digital music culture.


I am now 30 years old and proud to say that I am currently working within the bass music scene as an artist. I am truly living in the world that once inspired me, and I am incredibly thankful to everyone who helped create it alongside me. 


I think this subculture is often overlooked, especially its visual artists, even though it had a massive influence on an entire generation. Somehow, it still has not been recognized by major art institutions. Hopefully, this collection can do justice to the culture as a whole.

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