Saturday 13 February 2010

Listening Posts

Listening Post by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin ' A MONUMENT TO THE PRESENT:THE SOUND OF 100,000 PEOPLE CHATTING'
The display has 200 small electronic screens that display moving words at different speeds that connect the computer-synthesised sounds coming out of the speakers. The words are from thousands of Internet chatrooms in real time. The display is bazaar with mixed up words that don't make sense and strange synthesised voices. The display was in the Science Museum and lasted a couple of minutes.

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