Martin Backes is a Berlin-based artist, technologist and composer working across sound, installation, performance and public-space intervention, known for algorithmic works such as I am sitting in a machine;, which degrades a synthetic voice through thousands of successive MP3 encodings. https://www.martinbackes.com/
I am sitting in a machine – Hearing the science of digitisation
Created by Martin Backes, 'I am sitting in a machine' is a two part work algorithmic work consisting of a dubplate vinyl and a webpage containing 32 tracks selected from 3000 successive iterations of MP3 encoding.
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