Live @ Google Data Center, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Kidel, Sam, Author.

Contributor:

Library Stack, distributor.

Series:

EBM(T) ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Data mining.

Sound art.

Genre:

Tracts (Ephemera)

Pamphlets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified], EBM(T), 2016.

Summary:

"This piece simulates a live performance of computer music at the Google Data Centre in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The composition takes its inspiration from this image, which was released from Google's Data Centre in Iowa in 2012, and is a dialogue between algorithmically generated notes, rhythms and melodies, and my formative input in sculpting the emerging sound as it is generated. Using architectural plans extrapolated from photographs of Google's server room at this site, I use software to simulate the space's reverb characteristic, feeding the composition into it. I like to think of this as mimetic hacking. Like the Anonymous hacks that create mirrors of websites in order to meddle and play with the site's content, I mirror the physical dimensions of this protected data centre in virtual space, bouncing sounds off the walls of the virtual copy."-- provided by distributor.

Notes:

Archived and cataloged by Library Stack

CC BY-ND.

Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access