Live @ Google Data Center, Council Bluffs, Iowa
<p>This piece simulates a live performance of computer music at the Google Data Centre in Council Bluffs, Iowa.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>
Authors: Sam Kidel
Part of: EBM(T)