Some artists refuse to exist on the market's own terms. ||||||||||||||||||||, pronounced barcode (/ˈbɑːkəʊd/), takes that refusal to its logical extreme: an unreadable name, a deliberately erased identity, an online presence stripped down to a Bandcamp page and a handful of social accounts. Barcode defines itself as "a post-identitarian prototype of a musician of the upcoming modern era, which lines up independently as a product in the internet's display" — a statement that r