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Tags: liddell, lucier, alvin, codec, resolution, filter, repetition, digital, noise, loss, quality, copy, repeat,
I started this project exactly 1 year ago, almost to the hour. The final version is a lot different than I thought it would be, I was expecting a lot more digital video noise, and a lot less digital audio noise. Let this be a lesson, though, always be careful how you convert your digital media!
An homage to the great Alvin Lucier, this piece explores the 'photocopy effect', where upon repeated copies the object begin to accumulate the idiosyncrasies of the medium doing the copying. Full words: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice as well as the image of myself, and I am going to upload it to YouTube, rip it from YouTube, and upload it again and again, until the original characteristics of both my voice and my image are destroyed. What you will see and hear, then, are the artifacts inherent in the video codec of both YouTube and the mp4 format I convert it to on my computer. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a digital fact, but more as a way to eliminate all human qualities my speech and image might have.
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Vinomadd - 19.1.2012 22:55:26
That sound will haunt my dreams.
ted3681 - 13.1.2012 7:15:54
EAR RAPE
it549 - 13.1.2012 6:21:04
So you're saying we invade china?
magnificentjosh - 6.1.2012 17:03:17
Alvin Lucier, using analogue tape, ended up producing a beautiful, reverberant ringing noise. Digital encoding produces this...
jlsrobinson - 21.12.2011 4:10:58
this guy has ALOT of time on his hands
ingersollturok - 13.12.2011 23:21:40
I have a filter in Adobe that can do this in like 5 seconds.
Ligermorph - 6.12.2011 3:11:08
Must. Kill. John Lennon.
kill40001000 - 5.12.2011 22:59:39
It actually took him a year to do this :O
Squidpus - 24.11.2011 1:24:30
I wonder if the result would be the same if filmed in 1080p with YouTube's new options.
ZachHale8 - 30.10.2011 7:36:33
Awesome! What a new way to make a homage to Alvin Lucier!
sitwosaints - 30.10.2011 1:56:01
Completely wonderful.
djscottdog1 - 17.10.2011 3:43:50
in soviet Russia video up load you 1000s times
claircote4416 - 9.10.2011 5:17:02
Basically, the guy makes a video, he downloads it (mp4) then he re-uploads it again,
then does the same thing.
liang8231 - 9.10.2011 4:41:51
Why was this feautured?
many9662 - 9.10.2011 4:41:05
Defending my self makes me a douche? Shit, i learn new things everyday.
kopi5896 - 9.10.2011 4:40:26
I want to see how long it takes before the sound is nothing but static and the picture is just completely black with a white smudge in the center
minami935 - 9.10.2011 4:38:51
Thing is no one reuploads rick roll, posting it doesn't lose the quality either
Zeraziel - 4.10.2011 0:44:00
@abi17kiss Why is that every time someone sees (but fails to fully comprehend) the end result of what another person put many hours into doing, they need to insinuate or blatantly accuse the person of "no life" or lacking any "serious" commitment?
kopi5896 - 29.9.2011 9:47:20
This is what will happen to the rick roll if posted enough
liang8231 - 29.9.2011 9:47:01
If you read the description-this is a vlog he did and ripped of of YouTube and processed it over and over again until it was literally COMPLETELY digitalized. Nothing human remained.
many9662 - 29.9.2011 9:28:07
Why did that make me want to throw up??those noises
claircote4416 - 29.9.2011 9:27:13
I really don't understand it.
minami935 - 29.9.2011 9:26:32
You realize that codecs and compression algorithms are written by humans, right? Still human. And the same effect can be made by taking the original and reencoding it at 1/1000th the original bitrate.
abi17kiss - 18.9.2011 7:46:08
1061 Videos! WTF? do u have a job?
amaloveable - 3.9.2011 4:25:12
@srpollisimo90 YES O.O