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The Sound of Software Tranquillity (2021)

Erik Natanael Gustafsson, Baudry Benoit
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About this exposition

This exposition is an investigation into software tranquillity through sound. One second of activity on a laptop was recorded by tracing the function calls within the Linux kernel. Can software be wild or calm? If so, what would calm software be like? Imagining that the software could experience its own existence, is the nature of its tranquillity or activity apparent to it? Can we as humans experience the tranquillity of software, if it indeed exists, and can we experience it as tranquil? Listen to fragments of one second worth of real software (in)activity while we present and reflect on the outcomes of this investigation.
typeresearch exposition
keywordssoftware, music, digitality, art practice, time
date26/05/2020
published08/03/2021
last modified08/03/2021
statuspublished
affiliationKTH Royal Institute of Technology
copyrightErik Natanael Gustafsson 2020
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/904300/904301
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.904300
published inRUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue15. Slowness and Silence, Inertia and Tranquility


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nameDemonstration of visual dithering
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name1 s of (in)activity in real-time
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nameWindy sonification of inactivity slowed down
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nameWaveform of 47 hours of inactivity
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nameZooming in from 10x
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