Sunday, October 6, 2013

Property of Windows

Over 18 years ago, Michael Davidson thought it might be neat-o to snap some pics of microchips. Expecting abstract blocks of color and line, he instead found Waldo. 

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What a happy little accident . . .

Audacity has an "Import Raw Data" command that I stumbled upon when trying to open a corrupt file. (Kids, don't try to open Mac formats with Windows programs.)  On importing I received about a second's worth of noise and an injection of curiosity . . .

. . . What else makes the bleep bloops?

Sound, noise, music, call it what you will, but these things were not the intended properties of this data, just as microchips are not viewed as canvases. But they are. I scoured my hard drive, spending countless hours importing files, collecting data, taking notes,and drinking shitty beer just to find the answer.  And so here it is, every file in Windows XP that goes bleep bloop.

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