Since we've been talking about emulation I've got something I'd like to
revive, a web piece I did in 1996 called:
"Re-Your Page from [log in to unmask]"
It requires a "talker" plug-in, which doesn't seem to exist anymore.
Besides, it only worked on Macs. I'd like to make it work again,
cross-platform. Any suggestions? They weren't audio files but text
files "played" by the Mac's text-to-speech function through the Talker
plugin. I'd like to keep it in that form. If done as Flash it wouldn't
be the same work. OTOH, I can see it being performed by the same
singers who do Philip Glass. That would be closer to the original than
a sound file.
The site is here, but it doesn't work and it only seems to show up in
firefox:
http://post.thing.net/files/jodi/home.html
The web site was included in a design book at the time, credited to
jodi.org though I did it using an email they'd sent to GH Hovagimyan
who forwarded it to me asking me what it was. I told him jodi was
singing to him. I basically created a song cycle out of their
gibberish when you click on the blank squares but you click on a square
the sequence changes.
Abe and Mo singing blogs on the whitney artport made me think of it.
Robbin Murphy
THE THING, Inc.
Death Star, NYC
This is the particular lovely movement #5 in the piece. Feel free to
run it through your text-to-speech:
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