Distortion, originally considered an undesirable side effect of overloading audio equipment, has become a key element of countless genres of modern music. The history of distortion truly begins in the ...

Why distortion often helps to sell the idea of 'reality'. Would you like some distortion to make it sound better? That's not a question you'd expect to hear. It's contradictory. The common wisdom is ...

One of the lesser-known ways that camera manufacturers have been able to make digital cameras ever smaller and less expensive is by using in-camera software to correct for lens distortion on the fly.