[aha] The Sound of eBay - Pressrelease - Enjoy the Silence!

[T_Bazz]

OFFICIAL STATEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Enjoy the Silence!
Vienna, San Jose, July, 2008

http://sound-of-ebay.com/pdfs/SoE_Press_Release_no_1.pdf

The Sound of eBay
an UBERMORGEN.COM project
http://www.Sound-of-eBay.com

Forget the technology,
it’s lustful entertainment, baby!


ABSTRACT

How does it really work?

We generate unique songs by using eBay user-data. You simply enter any
eBay username (your own or someone else's) and add your email address so
we can notify you as soon as the song is ready for downloading. Then 
click "generate" and our robots sprawl out into the net to collect data. 
Then the robots bring back the data to our sc3 supercollider
soundgeneration-engine. Finally, the complex software-machine starts
generating a score-file which is then transformed into your unique but
uniform song and presented in teletext porn style! We sell out your 
human needs digitally...

STORY

First there was silence...
Then there was data...
But there was no story...
Just images and sounds...

Cities were built and a grid was laid on top of the topography

Within this global grid a company named eBay became the largest
marketplace, with very local marketspaces. eBay is romantic and seductive,
not like the local fleamarkets in Paris (Le marché aux puces de
Saint-Ouen) but sexed up a million times bigger and spherically
transcended, much more effective and thoroughly commercialized. We love
it! "The Sound of eBay" is the affirmative high-end low-tech contribution
to the atomic soundtrack of the new peer-to-peer hyper-catastrophic
shock-capitalism.

The sound is cool, the machine produces masses of songs and replicates
millions of times throughout the networks – flooding the net, a bubbling
sea of artifical songs visualized in CONTEMPORARY teletext – a continental
drift within a macromusic universal urban scape. Trash-Radio.

Forget the technology,
its lustful entertainment, baby!

http://www.Sound-of-eBay.com

EKMRZ-TRILOGY

UBERMORGEN.COM is attracted by the surface of Google, Amazon and eBay, the
three historical e-giants brilliantly surviving the dotcom boom and the
legendary crash at the end of that era. Back then and still today the
three kings form the powerful spearhead of e-commerce (EKMRZ). By creating
the third piece – The Sound of eBay – we wrap up the trilogy we had
started in 2005. Thanks to Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio for the
GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself and Amazon Noir – The Big Book Crime
collaboration

GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself, 2005/06
http://www.gwei.org

Amazon Noir – The Big Book Crime, 2006/07
http://www.amazon-noir.com

The Sound of eBay, 2008/09
http://www.Sound-of-eBay.com

SONGS

We love it! The Sound of eBay is our affirmative low-tech contribution to
the ATOMIC soundtrack of the peer-to-peer hyper-catastrophic
shock-capitalism. Reference: Peter Weibels Song "Sex in der Stadt" (Sex in
the City) from 1982 - Hotel Morphila Orchester, where PW "raps" (sings)
sex-ads from a newspaper.

Here some sample songs from the SoE-Database:
http://sound-of-ebay.com/songs/080611_014322_jibscott.mp3
http://sound-of-ebay.com/songs/080611_004144_girlnumber4.mp3
http://sound-of-ebay.com/songs/080610_234922_beautifulcynic.mp3
http://sound-of-ebay.com/songs/080610_221629_toastyfrog.mp3
http://sound-of-ebay.com/songs/080610_212727_rhit_mst3kjunkie.mp3
currently REGISTERED 560.544 eBay accounts - 1.3 million songs (6.5 TB data)

TECHNOLOGY

eBay's concept is based on transactions between buyers and sellers –
transactions between human beings, not consumers and companies. The
eBay-Generator software reflects this concept in a way that it does not
only generate your free personal song. The black box will be released a
standalone application published under gnu public licence – written in
supercollider (sc3). A free application that any user can install on
her/his Computer to produce an endless stream of bubbling eBay-grooves.
Each song has a SoE-MD5 key of authentification.

Every user has a signature which corresponds with another users signature.
Chains of transactions, a swarm of bots, each song has a memory and
therefore has it’s own history. Steganography of songs... can you reverse
engineer the string? The robots run into the bazar of fraud (eBay.com),
grab sensitive (creditcard information, bank details,  passwords, etc if
available) and non-sensitive user-data (bought and sold items, prices,
comments, ratings, etc), recontextualizes them and creates new, individual
and unique profiles. In-depth tech description:

http://sound-of-ebay.com/pdfs/SoE_Technology.pdf

SCORE

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  5.1  s_new hat 1094 0 1 out 0 ts 5 amp 0.3
  5.1  s_new blipBase 1095 0 1 out 0 freq 1.2857142857143 length
0.083333333333333 rq 0.35 emph 20 amp 0.45 a 38 b 39 n1 2 n2 3
  5.1  s_new bd 1096 0 1 out 0 amp 0.5 rq 0.35 emph -20 delaytime 0.001
decay 0.4
  5.1  g_new 1097 1 1
  5.1  s_new sd 1099 0 1 out 0 amp 0.3
  5.100000001  s_new system_link_audio_2 1098 3 1097 out 0 in 16 fadeTime
0.02 gate 1 doneAction 3
  5.100000002  s_new sampleOutMono 1100 0 1097 out 16 bufnum 0 startpos 0
duration 3.7151927437642 amp 0.6
  5.100000002  s_new panHelper 1101 1 1097 out 16
  5.100000002  s_new vocodeIt 1102 1 1097 out 16 base 0 bufnumA 143 bufnumB
144 note 0.75 xfade 1
  5.2  n_set 1095 gate 0
  5.225  s_new hat 1103 0 1 out 0 ts 5 amp 0.3
  5.225  s_new blipBase 1104 0 1 out 0 freq 2.5714285714286 length
0.083333333333333 rq 0.35 emph 20 amp 0.45 a 38 b 39 n1 2 n2 3
  5.325  n_set 1104 gate 0
  5.35  s_new hat 1105 0 1 out 0 ts 7 amp 0.3
  5.35  s_new blipBase 1106 0 1 out 0 freq 1.2857142857143 length
0.083333333333333 rq 0.35 emph 20 amp 0.45 a 38 b 39 n1 2 n2 3
  5.350000002  n_set 1102 out 16 base 0 bufnumA 143 bufnumB 144 note
2.6666666666667 xfade 1
5.45  n_set 1106 gate 0

THEORY

"...As part of their sustainable trilogy the critical level of
"UBERMORGEN.COM"’s media-integrated storytelling has reached the coastline
of business-island "eBay". Braking the waves of cyberspaced e-commerce
tsunamis by transforming singular binary micro-transactions of homo
oeconomicus into auditive vortexes and granular compositions by pirating
privacy....

...By discovering this undetected entropolis, the colonization of
data-hungry network-crawlers and blackboxed info-transformers is feeding a
suspicious synaesthesia within the neatly structured columns of
profit-orientated socio-technological networks..."

Theorycoding by Grischinka Teufl
http://www.Sound-of-eBay.com/700.html
http://sound-of-ebay.com/pdfs/SOE_UBERMORGEN.COM_grischinka_teufl.pdf

VISUALCODING

Visualcoding by  LIA
http://www.sound-of-eBay.com/visualcoding.html

The visualcoding by LIA - http://www.strangeThingsHappen.org - is created
in „Director“ and viewed with shockwave, proprietary software - with
restrictions on use or private modification. The Free Software Foundation
issued the rule that we cannot install any proprietary program on our
computers except temporarily for the specific purpose of writing a free
replacement for that very program.

STYLE

Teletxt-porn by lizvlx: by working with the three main EKMRZ (e-commerce)
web-sites Google, Amazon and eBay, the last target was approached with an
antique but royal discipline: TELETEXT. Now teletext has to appear in full
glamour and with it`s highest visual attraction: PORN. lizvlx scanned
thousands of porn pages of austrian cable television to come up with the
finest pixel-boobs & pixel-pussies.
Please see also „The Teletext Babez“ video by drx/Bodenstaendig/Maarten
Ploeg, 2001:
http://drx.a-blast.org/~drx/projects/teletext/index.en.html

AUTHORS

UBERMORGEN.COM [A/CH/USA, *1999], UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created
in Vienna, Austria, by Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, a founder of etoy. Behind
UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities –
controversial and iconoclast – of the contemporary European
techno-fine-art avant-garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art,
drawing, software art, pixel- painting, computer installations, net.art,
sculpture and digital actionism (media hacking) transforms their brand
into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. The permanent amalgamation of fact and
fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one’s working
materials, that for UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights,
democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). “Ubermorgen” is
the German word both for “the day after tomorrow” or “super-tomorrow”.
http://www.ubermorgen.com

CREDITS

Soundcoding Stefan Nussbaumer
Visualcoding LIA
Theorycoding Grischinka Teufl
Scriptcoding Erich Kachel

The project is supported by Rhizome.org commissions, BM:UKK (Austria),
City of Vienna (MA7/Netznetz.net), The Austrian Embassy in Mexico, net
culture lab, eine Innovationsinitiative von Telekom Austria, Jan Lauth,
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, lo-res.org
http://www.sound-of-ebay.com/800.html

"The Sound of eBay" is an UBERMORGEN.COM project

TEAMWORK

Networking is working... The different parts of „The Sound of eBay“ were
compiled in various geotechnical-locations: The soundcoding by Stefan
Nussbaumer was mainly realized in Vienna, Tyrol and Madrid, the
Scriptcoding was realized in Germany and implemented in Austria, the
visucalcoding by LIA was done in Portugal and implemented in Spain and the
theorycoding was prepared in Berlin, written in Vienna and Tokyo and
implemented in Madrid. Teletextporn by lizvlx was created in St. Moritz
(Switzerland), the first interactive AV-installations were put together in
Mexico-City and in Madrid, the web-server is located in the „crypta“ (VIVI
Vienna, lo-res.org server) and the coordination, PR and web-implementation
were realized in St. Moritz and Vienna...  There was one real-life meeting
in Vienna; all other communication took place in various
skype-conferences, via email and through phone conversations.

CONTACT

UBERMORGEN.COM, Vienna (Austria), St. Moritz (Switzerland)
silence at sound-of-ebay.com
+43 650 930 00 61
http://www.sound-of-ebay.com/600.html

Mailing Address
THE SOUND OF EBAY
FAVORITENSTRASSE 26/5, A-1040 VIENNA / AUSTRIA
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