Virtual Memory (Excerpt)
2001

Composed in 2001 using Macintosh Virtual Memory with an AIFF header added, a Jomox AirBase drum machine and a Midiverb. This used to be a 40 minute composition, which I broke into two parts due to limitations on file size imposed by Mp3.com. I released this as an album in 2001 or 2002, but it failed to sell well. To try to get people to listen to it, I renamed the files to “unreleased britney spears,” and logged on to Napster, where I would hang around in the chat rooms encouraging people to download them. In those days, we called that sort of behavior “guerilla marketing.” Now, it’s more commonly referred to as “being an asshole.”

The first 8 minutes were always the best, so here they are.

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Headerless Data No. 2
2001

This piece is an example of data bending: a technique where a normal computer file is played as if it were a sound file. The file in this case is an image. Data bending, to me, sounds very similar to some fo the sounds created by Xenakis’ Gendyn algorithms, which shows the similarities of mathematical modelling of different phenomenon, whether it be stochastic or generated by a photograph.

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Headerless Data No.1
2001

I created a Photoshop document and put an AIFF header on it, then converted the AIFF to mp3. Any structure this appears to have is either because of the way Photoshop stores layers, or because of nice mosiac tiling I put on the image.

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