RE: [microsound]digital silence

[Kenric McDowell <kenric@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aren't we just seeing the structure of the file here, rather than the
material structure of reality? This is certinly the subtext of these
experiments isn't it? If the goal of studying nothingness is the increased
awareness of more fundamental structures it is important not to confuse
metaphors with reality. Computer systems are constructs and as such studying
their "empty" forms only reveals the nature of the construction.

-km

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From: dwane@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:dwane@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 11:12 AM
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Subject: [microsound] electronic improv recommendations


If you create an empty soundfile it still contains the information of being
a "sound file" so I dont really think there is such a thing, even if Im sure
theres a lot of ways of creating something a lot of people can agree upon
beeing digital silence. The digital world have a lot incommon with our
physical one.

To achieve something like this, I recorded a few seconds of nothing in Peak,
amplified it a hundred or maybe more times, also turned that audio into
pictures, put them together to achive a realtime like animation.

Its on
http://members01.chello.se/dwane
and is called "digital silence"

Tommy Dwane Filipowicz


> i could very well be wrong about this.. but a digital "silent
> waveform" is simply a soundfile with nothing there... 00000000. and,
> would seem to reason that YES.. it is true silence.. not counting of
> course the hiss or hum coming out of your amplification system upon
> playback or whatever..
>
> i'm sure there are silence purists out there who will find fault in
> what i'm saying.. but that's the way i perceive it anyway... but i'm
> not an expert..

>>i thought of that, as well. Now, tell me, please, isn't it impossible to
>>achieve total digital silence? I'm not real knowledgable about this stuff,
>>and I like to learn about the sounds (or lack of!). I was under the
>>impression that even in digital silence there is some small bit of sound ,
>>would that mean then, that you ARE always picking up small morsels of
sound,
>>and that is why you always get a different output? Or, is it the sound
from
>>the energy source you are utilizing that gives the different outputs? THAT
>>is what I meant to ask the first time!  took me 2 tries, I'm improving!
>>Thanks for replying.

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