1001 Songs Of Ebay Crónica 043~2009
UBERMORGEN.COM && Nussbaumer
1001 Songs of eBay
Crónica 043~2009
Crónica is delighted to present the “1001 Songs of eBay”, its longest ever
Unlimited Release, running to a total of 2 days, 3 hours, 41 minutes and 26
seconds, or 4.26GB of generative funkiness.
“Forget the technology,
it’s lustful entertainment, baby!”
“The Sound of eBay” is an UBERMORGEN.COM project with Stefan
Nussbaumer, online at www.sound-of-ebay.com since July 2008. Using eBay
user data, The Sound of eBay generates unique songs. By simply entering
any eBay username and clicking “generate”, the robots sprawl out into the net
to collect data, bringing it back to the SC3 Supercollider sound-generation
engine. The complex software-machine starts generating a score-file which is
then transformed into a unique song.
“The Sound of eBay” transforms a role-model of individual commodities market
in an “ARTitude” of robotic configurations and strings, swapping personalized
and compositional business dreams with sound designs from secure client
accounting. Using the concept of creative destruction, this entertainment-
aggregation is tuning in a mind-blowing cutup, pushing the contemporary
lifestyles over the edge and combines it with transformable delays of post-
realistic business-analysis.
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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, 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!
HISTORY
The eBay-Generator is an application that translates data from arbitrary eBay
useraccounts into little music pieces. A first prototype — using the South
American eBay-clone Mercadolibre — was presented in September 2007.
Experiences with this first version have led to the current version of the eBay-
Generator, which produces “songs” on request which are then published at
www.Sound-of-eBay.com.
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1001 Songs of eBay
Crónica 043~2009
SONGS
We love it! “The Sound of eBay” is an affirmative low-tech contribution to the
ATOMIC soundtrack of the peer-to-peer hyper-catastrophic shock-capitalism.
THE RELEASE
Bringing the Unlimited Release series to an almost encyclopedic scope
of depth, Crónica presents 1001 of the generated songs, selected by
UBERMORGEN.COM and Stefan Nussbaumer. The 1001 songs are available
to download in a single, gigantic, .zip file or in 67 smaller subsets of 15 tracks
each — you are invited to get them all or to collect the subsets of this collection
of automated sound aggregation, directly developed out of highly sensitive,
inaccessible and unreachable data.
THE LIMITED RELEASE
The Limited counterparts to “1001 Songs of eBay” are “The Sound of eBay -
Do you know who the father is?” and “The Sound of eBay - It’s getting big?”,
two woodcuts on paper issued by Black Box Gallery Copenhagen and also
offered directly by Crónica.
CREDITS
”The Sound of eBay“ is an UBERMORGEN.COM project
Sound coding Stefan Nussbaumer
Visual coding LIA
Theory coding Grischinka Teufl
Script coding Erich Kachel
The Sound of eBay 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, Black Box Gallery
Copenhagen
UBERMORGEN.COM
Do you know who the father is?
It’s getting big?
Crónica 043L~2009
The Sound of eBay — Do you know who the father is?
The Sound of eBay — It’s getting big?
2008, Woodcut on Paper, 70x50cm
2008, Woodcut on Paper, 70x50cm
Edition of 47 + 3 a.p.
Edition of 47 + 3 a.p.
Courtesy Black Box Gallery Copenhagen
Courtesy Black Box Gallery Copenhagen
