--- On Wed, 12/22/10, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> > Subject: Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Piksel video report: Sonification of IT > censorship technologies > To: "Marco Donnarumma" <de...@thesaddj.com> > Cc: pd-list@iem.at > Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 8:02 PM > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Marco Donnarumma > wrote: > > >> If one can't reasonably hear the censorship in it, > is it appropriate to > >> advertise the work using such a title ? > > How would you define a 'reasonable listening of > censorship'? > > Well, perhaps there isn't one that can be done with IP > addresses. IP addresses don't mean much to people, even less > than phone numbers do, because the DNS and WHOIS systems do > their best to hide those numbers away from people. There are > hardly any well-known IP addresses apart from 127.0.0.1 and > 192.168.0.1, which are reserved for things outside of the > internet anyway. > > Then there is the problem of putting numbers in any way > that the numbers could be recovered (or recovered enough) > from the data. In the case of IP addresses, anything one bit > away is a totally distinct address, so, if such distinctions > are hard to hear, you aren't really playing the IP address, > but rather, a fragment of it. The way you play it, even if > someone could make sense of MIDI notes as high as 255 (when > even just 140 is above Nyquist...), there are 24 > combinations that would sound the same (for most IP > addresses), because in an IP address, the order of the bytes > is important, which is not rendered as such (you'd be either > preserving the order or doing anything else that amounts to > doing the same). Thus there are many combinations of > non-banned addresses that sound exactly the same as the > banned ones. > > Both things led me to think that in this work, the IP > addresses are secondary, the fact that they are banned > addresses is secondary, and the concept of censorship is > secondary. > > That said, I don't know how censorship could enter a music > piece as music. Throw Beethoven's Eroica into a DAW and replace all the sforzandi with a 1000hZ sine tone. -Jonathan > > However, there are obvious ways to make it enter as lyrics > : you write a song against censorship, and then it will get > censored in China, and now it's doubly relevant to the topic > of censorship. > > > Sure, but in this case soundfile is only for online > documentation, the work is exhibited as multichannel audio > installation, the audience can interact with the software > and read relevant information about the how/what/why. > > Ah, that's very nice. Will you put some of it online one > day ? > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- > Villeray, Montréal, QC > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at > mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list