[PD] [PD-announce] Piksel video report: Sonification of IT censorship technologies

[Marco Donnarumma]

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> Ah, that's very nice. Will you put some of it online one day ?


Technical information are on-line, I can provide a more detailed description
if you really need it :)

Regarding the software, yes, as I mentioned in a previous email, I need a
moment to fix few things and publish it.

 M

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Marco Donnarumma <devel at thesaddj.com>wrote:

> Matju, I see your point and I won't try to convince you that this work is
> something you don't believe it to be.
>
> However, I believe our disagreement born from a very different viewpoint on
> the nature of an """"artistic"""" intervention.
> Your technical analysis is excellent, but it seems to me it goes over the
> real scope of the work.
>
> A reliable, efficient, accurate and consistent sonification system for IP
> addresses was not what I aimed for.
> The project is a simple critical observation.
> That's my personal view of it and that's what I aimed for in first
> instance.
>
> I agree with you, it's hard to imagine not obvious ways for censorship to
> enter music, and that's one of the reasons why I'm happy experimenting with
> it.
>
> M
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> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 ?
>>
>>
>>  _______________________________________________________________________
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Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD
Independent New Media Arts Professional, Performer, Teacher
Ongoing MSc by Research, University of Edinburgh, UK


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