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The Sound of eBay

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Jo-Anne
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ebay.jpgThe Sound of eBay by UBERMORGEN.COM … enjoy the silence!

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

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.

“Beautiful project! Especially the scary parts about sensitive data. Very well worded, too. I can’t wait to see some fear trickle through the datasphere…” Douglas Ruskoff

How it really works:

We generate unique songs by using eBay user-data. You simply enter any eBay username (your own or someone else’s), 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.

After about 2-3 minutes the robots bring back all kind of user-data (creditcard information, bank details, passwords and non-sensitive user-data such as bought and sold items, prices, comments, ratings, etc) 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…


Jun 20, 2008
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