Abstract #302132

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JSM 2003 Abstract #302132
Activity Number: 190
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2003 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract - #302132
Title: Sound and the Information Arts
Author(s): Mark H. Hansen*+
Companies: Bell Laboratories
Address: 600 Mountain Ave., New Providence, NJ, 07974-1208,
Keywords: sound ; data analysis ; data streams ; multimedia ; text data
Abstract:

"Listening Post" is a multimedia art installation designed to convey the magnitude and diversity of online communication. This unique space provides a meaningful rendering of a massive data stream consisting of thousands of simultaneous conversations. We explore specifically how the audio component of the installation provides a structure that enables visitors to make sensible inferences from this complex, dynamic data. Listening Post makes use of a multilayer audio display consisting of mechanical noises (relay clicks), sampled sounds, and synthesized voices, as well as more traditional musical compositions. We illustrate how these components, together with a rich visual display, combine and interact to give visitors a sense of the topics being discussed in thousands of chat rooms, all in real time. Finally, we discuss some of the systems and software infrastructure necessary to create the complex audio display. Listening Post was on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, December 20 through March 9, 2003.

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