The Simultaneous Translator
Supported by Murray G. and Beatrice H. Sherman Charitable Trust
The Simultaneous Translator (SimTrans) is a Windows based audio interface that enables anyone to load audio streams and manipulate them in real time on the Internet. SimTrans makes the delays and fluctuations of the Internet visible and audible. The Internet becomes your collaborator as you create your mix, and the instability you usually try to avoid becomes a tool for creation. Distance and delay are manifest within the interface numerically and as a series of sliding heads; there is also a link to Google Earth where you can watch the dynamic flight of data travel between yourself and the audio source.
TAXONOMY
Asynchronous | Audio | Google | Networked | Participatory | Performance | Real Time | Software | Streaming | Translation | Transmission
REQUIREMENTS
Windows OS required. Download the software. Speakers/Headphone.
MEDIA & ACHIEVEMENTS
New Music and Globalization 2: Networked Music | Tim Rutherford-Johnson | New Music Box
ADDITIONAL NOTES
LIVE PERFORMANCE: April 15, 2007 12:00 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST. Participants: Greg Davis (USA), Kenneth Goldsmith (USA), John Hudak (USA), Keyman (France), Lawrence Li (China), Mice69 (France), Miguel Ramos (Spain), Joe Reinsel (USA), John Roach (USA) and Willy Whip (France)