Breed & Weed by Martin Aaserud
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http://martin.openearwaves.org/index.php?page=breed%20and%20weed
How would identity behave when digitized?
Four wooden spheres each live and evolve their own sonic identity. Their sounds can be bred with the other spheres or weeded out by the listener by being placed in a breeding pool at the centre of the installation.
Presently, our private information is uploaded to wireless RFID chips in ID cards and passports with the promise of full privacy and security. Breed & Weed seeks naively to question the nature of identity as a flow of digital information. Can it have an agenda of its own? How do we relate to a digital identity when we copy, paste, remix and share all our digital information? Is there such a thing as static information at all?
Using sound, which is always in flux, the listener takes part in the flow of information by listening to the sonic qualities to determine how an offspring of two sounds would sound like.
Tech:
PC running Pure:Dyne Linux, SuperCollider, RFID readers and transponders, Radio Transmitters/Receivers