Vienna, San Jose, July, 2008
http://sound-of-ebay.com/pdfs/SoE_Press_Release_no_1.pdf
an UBERMORGEN.COM project
Forget
the technology,
itÕs
lustful entertainment, baby!
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 ãgenerateÒ 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...
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 marchŽ 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 Ð flooding the net, a
bubbling sea of artifical songs visualized in CONTEMPORARY teletext Ð a
continental drift within a macromusic universal urban scape. Trash-Radio.
Forget the technology,
its lustful entertainment, baby!
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 Ð The Sound of eBay Ð 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 Ð The Big Book Crime collaboration
GWEI Ð Google Will Eat Itself, 2005/06
Amazon Noir Ð The Big Book Crime, 2006/07
The Sound of eBay, 2008/09
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)
eBay's concept is based on transactions between buyers and sellers
Ð 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 Ð 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 itÕs 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
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"...As part of their sustainable trilogy the critical level
of "UBERMORGEN.COM"Õs 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 ãDirectorÒ 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.
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 ãThe Teletext BabezÒ video by
drx/Bodenstaendig/Maarten Ploeg, 2001: http://drx.a-blast.org/~drx/projects/teletext/index.en.html
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 Ð controversial and iconoclast Ð 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 oneÕs working materials, that for
UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights, democracy and global
communication (input-feedback loops). ÒUbermorgenÓ is the German word both for
Òthe day after tomorrowÓ or Òsuper-tomorrowÓ. http://www.ubermorgen.com
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
ãThe
Sound of eBayÒ is an UBERMORGEN.COM project
Networking is working... The different parts of ãThe Sound of eBayÒ 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 ãcryptaÒ (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.
UBERMORGEN.COM
Vienna (Austria), St. Moritz (Switzerland)
+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