www.Sound-of-eBay.com
ABSTRACT
How does it really work?
We generate unique songs by using eBay user-data. You simply enter any eBayusername (your own or someone else’s) and add your email address so we cannotify you as soon as the song is ready for downloading. Then click „generate“ andour robots sprawl out into the net to collect data. Then the robots bring back thedata to our sc3 supercollider soundgeneration-engine. Finally, the complexsoftware-machine starts generating a score-file which is then transformed intoyour unique but uniform song and presented in teletext porn style! We sell outyour 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 localfleamarkets in Paris (Le marché aux puces de Saint-Ouen) but sexed up a milliontimes bigger and spherically transcended, much more effective and thoroughlycommercialized. We love it! “The Sound of eBay” is the affirmative high-end lowtech contribution to the atomic soundtrack of the new peer-to-peer hypercatastrophic shock-capitalism.
The sound is cool, the machine produces masses of songs and replicates millionsof times throughout the networks – flooding the net, a bubbling sea of artificalsongs visualized in CONTEMPORARY teletext – a continental drift within amacromusic universal urban scape. Trash-Radio.
Forget the technology,
its lustful entertainment, baby!
EKMRZ-TRILOGY
UBERMORGEN.COM is attracted by the surface of Google, Amazon and eBay, thethree historical e-giants brilliantly surviving the dotcom boom and the legendarycrash at the end of that era. Back then and still today the three kings form thepowerful spearhead of e-commerce (EKMRZ). By creating the third piece – TheSound 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 – HotelMorphila Orchester, where PW “raps” (sings) sex-ads from a newspaper.
Here some sample songs from the SoE-Database:
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 – transactionsbetween human beings, not consumers and companies. The eBay-Generatorsoftware reflects this concept in a way that it does not only generate your freepersonal song. The black box will be released a standalone application publishedunder gnu public licence – written in supercollider (sc3). A free application that anyuser can install on her/his Computer to produce an endless stream of bubblingeBay-grooves. Each song has a SoE-MD5 key of authentification.
Every user has a signature which corresponds with another users signature. Chainsof transactions, a swarm of bots, each song has a memory and therefore has it’sown history. Steganography of songs… can you reverse engineer the string? Therobots run into the bazar of fraud (eBay.com), grab sensitive (creditcardinformation, bank details, passwords, etc if available) and non-sensitive user-data(bought and sold items, prices, comments, ratings, etc), recontextualizes them andcreates new, individual and unique profiles. In-depth tech description: PDF
SCORE
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THEORY
“…As part of their sustainable trilogy the critical level of “UBERMORGEN.COM”’smedia-integrated storytelling has reached the coastline of business-island “eBay”.
Braking the waves of cyberspaced e-commerce tsunamis by transforming singularbinary micro-transactions of homo oeconomicus into auditive vortexes andgranular compositions by pirating privacy….
…By discovering this undetected entropolis, the colonization of data-hungrynetwork-crawlers and blackboxed info-transformers is feeding a suspicioussynaesthesia within the neatly structured columns of profit-orientated sociotechnological
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 onuse or private modification. The Free Software Foundation issued the rule that wecannot install any proprietary program on our computers except temporarily forthe 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) websites
Google, Amazon and eBay, the last target was approached with an antiquebut royal discipline: TELETEXT. Now teletext has to appear in full glamour and withit`s highest visual attraction: PORN. lizvlx scanned thousands of porn pages ofaustrian 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 createdin 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-artavant-garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixelpainting,
computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital actionism (mediahacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. The permanentamalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept ofone’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 “supertomorrow”.
http://www.ubermorgen.com
CREDITS
Soundcoding Stefan NussbaumerVisualcoding LIATheorycoding Grischinka TeuflScriptcoding Erich Kachel
The project is supported by Rhizome.org commissions, BM:UKK (Austria), City ofVienna (MA7/Netznetz.net), The Austrian Embassy in Mexico, net culture lab, eineInnovationsinitiative von Telekom Austria, Jan Lauth, Rencontres InternationalesParis/Berlin/Madrid, lo-res.org
„The Sound of eBay“ is an UBERMORGEN.COM project
TEAMWORK
Networking is working… The different parts of „The Sound of eBay“ were compiledin various geotechnical-locations: The soundcoding by Stefan Nussbaumer wasmainly realized in Vienna, Tyrol and Madrid, the Scriptcoding was realized inGermany and implemented in Austria, the visucalcoding by LIA was done inPortugal and implemented in Spain and the theorycoding was prepared in Berlin,
written in Vienna and Tokyo and implemented in Madrid. Teletextporn by lizvlxwas created in St. Moritz (Switzerland), the first interactive AV-installations wereput 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 webimplementation
were realized in St. Moritz and Vienna… There was one real-life
meeting in Vienna; all other communication took place in various skypeconferences,
via email and through phone conversations.
CONTACT
UBERMORGEN.COM
Vienna (Austria), St. Moritz (Switzerland)
silence@sound-of-ebay.com
+43 650 930 00 61
sound-of-ebay.com
Mailing Address
THE SOUND OF EBAY
FAVORITENSTRASSE 26/5A-1040 VIENNA / AUSTRIA
