May 4, 2009

• Crazy Ideas With a Smooth Trance-Like Beat

  I was looking up a sound term for my senior theatre project today, and I found a website that webhosts a free voicemail service where a person can check their voicemail from either a website or their email and save the audio files. This intrigued me, and sounded suspiciously like espionage (although in reality businesses probably use it as a disposable phone number for some project or employment recruiting or something boring like that), so I signed up for one and did a test message from my cell phone. It worked. This made me happy. Then the wheels in my head kept turning, and suddenly I was thinking about creating an entire experimental story-album with that account, sending myself cryptic or poetic voicemails, and editing them until they made something amazing and wonderful and 80 minutes long to fit on a CDR. Lately my indignant former ex-analogitarian has been pulling me in the direction of making electronic social traps, uh, I mean, social networking sites, fodder for my artistic bends, as can be witnessed on these microblogging sites:
  http://angelwingfive.posterous.com/ http://www.plurk.com/angelwingfive
  http://identi.ca/angelwingfive/all http://angelwingfive.podbean.com
  http://angelwingfive.jaiku.com/ http://twitter.com/angelwingfive

  Thought I might not think about too hard, because it might get me in trouble: seeking out landline phones, whenever I come in contact with one, and leaving a message somewhat like this:
  (Still transcoding, dammit!)
  
  And track it on K7.net under the phone number 206-339-7127 (By the way, if you want to help, think of something clever or cryptic and you can leave a message at this number. It doesn’t cost anything more than standard rates. You have unlimited time, I’m pretty sure, to leave your message, the automated system waits for you two seconds after you finish to cut you off.)
  Future reference: the ac adapter for the concertmate 990 is a Radio Shack Adapter 273-1770 (even though the website says it doesn’t exist. Wow, I’m using lots of parentheses in this post. Parentheses are kind of like sex.)
  Edit: I just realized that I said “former ex-analogitarian”. Nice use of redundancy.
  

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