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AN AUDIO STREAM TRAVELING THROUGH<br>
THE WORLD WIDE WEB SINCE THE 1ST JULY 2010<br>
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A PIECE FROM THE 'LAPS' SERIES BY 'ART OF FAILURE'<br>
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<td valign="top"><b>STATEMENT /<br>
</b>The field of research "Laps" focuses on generating sensible
representations of Internet by using it as a broadcasting space. The
spatial and geographic properties of the Network are highlighted by
broadcasting audio streams that travel and reverberate trough the web.
Listening to these audio streams by using specific processes* allows to
make audible an infinity of transformations that modify the sound as it
circulates on the web. These alterations are comparable to a form of
erosion caused by the network space - they are a key to allow different
mental representations of this digital topography.<br>
*Very low buffers and no error corrections<b><br>
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PROCESS | </b>A sound is sent out over the network and goes through
several locations on the web. Captured at the end of a loop by the
original transmitter, the sound is played and then resent out with no
additional modification through the web.<br>
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<b>SOUND MATERIAL</b> | To emphasize the changes caused by the
network, the sound used for the startup is deliberately very simple -
pure silence.<br>
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<b>SPACE</b> | Similar to a physical & resonant space, the
Internet network is here used as a broadcasting space where sound gets
more elaborated. The audio signal is modified by the inner properties
of the network and becomes an acoustic signature of this space.<br>
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<b>ERRORS</b> | The audio transmission process used here allows
to keep all the distortions of the original material that occurred
during the process (artefacts, transmission errors, missing data...).<br>
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<b>TOPOLOGY </b>| The geography of the network is in perpetual
motion. Web user's actions have a direct impact on the features of this
"resonant space" - the sound that one can hear through Laps constantly
crystallises the activity of part of the web.<br>
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<b>EROSION</b> | As a block of raw material subjected to an
erosion, the back-and-forth of the sound on the network gradually shape
the original material. The audio stream becomes a real-time sculpture -
a potential acoustic portrait of the network.<br>
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<b>SUPPORTED BY </b>: Locus Sonus | Géographies Variables <br>
Espace multimédia Gantner | Rybn | SCAM | RIAM</font></font></font><br>
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