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<p class="p1">Hello!</p>
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<p class="p1">I wish you all a healthy, happy and productive new year! ... 365 new days to put the 'experimental' back into 'experimental music' ... !</p>
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<p class="p1">This first day of 2013 is surely as good a day as any to lend an ear to <b>Große_Fuge.mp30000</b>, the subject of the latest SB-entry. It is the result of an experiment that I conducted over the last couple of months of 2012, for which - fortunately! - it was my laptop that did most of the work :-)</p>
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<p class="p1">When I was reading and reviewing Jonathan Sterne's book on the mp3 format (<i>Muziek voor Kattenkoppen</i> - Gonzo Circus Magazine #112) I wondered what would happen if you iterate the mp3 encoding of an audio file: make an mp3 of an mp3 of an mp3 ... not a few times, but many, many times.</p>
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<p class="p1">In order to find out, I instructed my MacBook to start with a recording of Beethoven's <i>Große Fuge</i>, convert it to mp3, and then feed the result back into the iTunes mp3 encoder, over and over again, up to 30.000 times.</p>
<p class="p1">The six tracks of <b>Große_Fuge.mp30000</b><i> </i>are, mainly, derived from a number of stages in this iterated encoding (2400, 15.000 and 30.000).</p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">You can read and hear it all here: <a href="http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00790.php"><span class="s2">http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00790.php</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="p1">Stay well! </p>
<p class="p1">Harold Schellinx</p>
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