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formatBreak0

from formatBk by Ryan Patrick Maguire

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An immense world of information is swirling about inside of the computer on which I type these words. There is enough music to fill a warehouse with LP's and enough text to stack the shelves of an impressive personal library. The files which store all of this information take various shapes: .mp3, .pdf, .wav, and so on. These digital containers are what make it possible to access the information in a way that is understandable. A stream of 1's and 0's means nothing to a person, but when decoded as a .pdf file, it is translated into a language one can understand. This is the value of a format.

Formats are filters through which we pass information, transforming it from indecipherable to comprehensible. This transformation leaves a certain residue on the data. Unpack a .txt file in its intended order and you will find the textual information which the document was meant to convey. Unpack that same file as an audio file and you will hear a seemingly random stream of noise, clicks, beeps, and drones. Save the same text file in a different format before opening it as audio, and you will hear something different at the last stage. The data is ordered and thus colored by its format.

This project is an experiment in accessing the raw data of formats as sonic material.

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from formatBk, track released March 7, 2013

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Ryan Patrick Maguire Chicago, Illinois

RPM is an audiovisualist searching for signals in static.


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