Listening Post
Style : Electronic installation | Internet based art.
Designers: : Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin.
Location : Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Year : 2001
Objects : 200 small vacuum florescent electronic screens, voice synthesizers, four computers.
Words from the Designers :
"From its conception, listening post has been a product of our combined talents. The space is as much about an artistic expression as it is data analysis"
-Mark Hansen
"I used t wonder whether it might be possible to hear the sounds of ancient potters chatting by 'playing' the grooves formed on pots thrown a thousand years ago. For years I have thought about ways to hear inaudible phenomena, ways to map the observable world into the sound domain"
-Ben Rubin
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How does it work :
It culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. Then the texts are read/sung by several voice synthesizers and simultaneously displayed on the screens.
It has six movements, each with a different arrangement of visual, aural and musical elements, and it's own data processing logic.
References:
http://blog.laurablair.co.uk/2013/05/art-listening-post.html
Digital by Design Troika: http://www.thamesandhudson.com/Digital_by_Design/9780500289013
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