The Silent Numbers combines audio collage with original text appropriated from an e-mail group devoted to recording and transcribing numbers stations. Numbers stations are shortwave radio broadcasts of human and machine-read numbers and letters probably used in espionage to communicate with field agents.
I’m interested in the collision of cold war technology designed for espionage and the desire for knowledge and connection in the community of listeners
The Silent Numbers is a collage of audio and text.
The meaning of the messages doesn't matter to me, only that they are speaking, and though I will never know for sure, they speak to me, so I record the numbers.
The work is web-based and driven by HTML, JavaScript, PHP, and CSS.
Live performance, with recorded elements, of an audio work that explores neutral voice, artificial voice, acousmatic voice, voice and its relationship to the reader. This performance will also incorporate quasi-algorithmic, appropriative microcollage (with results from network services) particularly in the recorded passages. The performance requires that the artist is able to connect his computer's audio interface(s) to a relatively high-quality stereo PA system. A number of sample development pieces and proofs of concept are available at: http://programmatology.shadoof.net?p=contents/auralityrecordings.html.
(Source: ELO 2015 Catalog)