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moDernisT

from Ghost in the MP3 by Ryan Patrick Maguire

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Andrew Neilson A literal ghost of a tune, just about recognisable, but from the gaps and cracks remaining.

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"moDernisT" was created by salvaging the sounds lost to mp3 compression from the song "Tom's Diner",
famously used as one of the main controls in the listening tests to develop the MP3 encoding algorithm.
Here we find the form of the song intact, but the details are just remnants of the original,
scrambled artifacts hinting at what once was.

The MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Layer III standard, more commonly referred to as MP3, has become a nearly ubiquitous digital audio file format. First published in 1993, this codec implements a lossy compression algorithm based on a perceptual model of human hearing. Listening tests, primarily designed by and for western-european men, and using the music they liked, were used to refine the encoder. These tests determined which sounds were perceptually important and which could be erased or altered, ostensibly without being noticed. What are these lost sounds? Are they sounds which human ears can not hear in their original contexts due to our perceptual limitations, or are they simply encoding detritus? It is commonly accepted that MP3's create audible artifacts such as pre-echo, but what does the music which this codec deletes sound like? In the work presented here, techniques are considered and developed to recover these lost sounds, the ghosts in the MP3, and reformulate these sounds as art.

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from Ghost in the MP3, released July 16, 2014

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Ryan Patrick Maguire Chicago, Illinois

RPM is an audiovisualist searching for signals in static.

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ryanmaguire.net

discography

Ghost in the MP3

Jul 2014
Harvest Light

Nov 2015
Ghost / Ambient

Nov 2015
formatBk

Feb 2017
Chambers

May 2012
$ Diamo.nd

Jul 2014

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