<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">On a related street art note, I've recently read an article about USB sticks installed in public, a project by an artist that's apparently spreading quickly...<div>Can't remember where I originally read about it, but this article here covers it as well:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://laughingsquid.com/usb-flash-drive-dead-drops-installed-in-public-locations-around-nyc/">http://laughingsquid.com/usb-flash-drive-dead-drops-installed-in-public-locations-around-nyc/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Tobias<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Am 16.02.2011 um 11:42 schrieb Bernhard Living:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Dear Hans,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">This is a very beautiful and effective installation, and as you said, the sound of the card was able to cut through the background noise of the traffic. Graffiti art has always had a slightly ‘naughty’ if not illegal aspect to it. It’s also fairly low cost (the price of a spray can). Your sound intervention certainly fits into that way of doing things.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Regards,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Bernhard</span></div><div><div>On 16 Feb 2011, at 10:03, hans w. koch wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>i did a piece with a greeting card sound chip, which i mounted in a public trashcan in budapest with a little circuitry, so that it would play "fuer elise" when somebody threw something into the trashcan.<br><a href="http://www.hans-w-koch.org/installations/thankyou.html">http://www.hans-w-koch.org/installations/thankyou.html</a><br>even if it was on a very busy street, the crisp and chirpy sound would always come thru :-)<br>hans<br><a href="http://www.hans-w-koch.net">www.hans-w-koch.net</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>Am 16.02.2011 um 00:55 schrieb microsound-request@or8.net:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Message: 1<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:43:29 -0500<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: Jeffrey Melton <jeffreymelton@gmail.com><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: "microsound@microsound.org" <microsound@microsound.org><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [microsound] Exit Through the Gift Shop<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Message-ID: <6E55E3A3-007D-430C-A06B-0F0D4F44301A@gmail.com><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">A low cost, low risk entry point might be those digital audio chips that are prevalent these days in record-your-own-greeting cards. Or the plethora of preschool toys that do something similar. <br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>microsound mailing list<br>microsound@microsound.org<br>http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>microsound mailing list<br><a href="mailto:microsound@microsound.org">microsound@microsound.org</a><br>http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div><div>---</div><div><br></div><div>Tobias Reber</div><div>Freiburgstrasse 32</div><div>2503 Biel</div><div>Switzerland</div><div><br></div><div>mobile: ++41 (0)79 573 11 69</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:tobiasreber@sunrise.ch">tobiasreber@sunrise.ch</a></div></div><div><a href="http://www.tobiasreber.com">www.tobiasreber.com</a></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div></body></html>