> > 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 <[email protected]>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 > > > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]>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 ? >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC >> > > > > -- > Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD > Independent New Media Arts Professional, Performer, Teacher > Ongoing MSc by Research, University of Edinburgh, UK > > > PORTFOLIO: http://marcodonnarumma.com > LAB: http://www.thesaddj.com | http://cntrl.sourceforge.net | > http://www.flxer.net > EVENT: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net > -- Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD Independent New Media Arts Professional, Performer, Teacher Ongoing MSc by Research, University of Edinburgh, UK PORTFOLIO: http://marcodonnarumma.com LAB: http://www.thesaddj.com | http://cntrl.sourceforge.net | http://www.flxer.net EVENT: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net
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