JOHN MAEDA AUDIO POSTER

This is a retext of sorts of a poster I made for a lecture John Maeda is giving on April 13th. I shortened the amount of text from the poster to make so that the text we now have is as follows:

John Maeda

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John Maeda is a world-renowned graphic designer, artist, and computer scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory. He has pioneered the use of the computer for people of all ages and skills to create art. He is currently spearheading a new research initiative to "redesign technology" so that it consistently makes sense, is fun, and keeps us coming back for more.

I read each of the separate parts repeatedly for one minute each then overlayed those recordings on top of one another. I then split that recording up into 10 second tracks, making 13 distinct recordings. Because of the different lengths of each piece, the texts don't match up so that one recording may start with the middle of one text, leaving the listener without a clue as to what's going on and another might be perfectly intelligible.
In this project, I'm interested in how these different recordings match up and then go out of sync and then come back to make something new. Additionally, I'm interested in the variety of possibilities created my a given set of elements.
Further, I am interested in the performative aspect of this, so I made sure to read everything over and over as opposed to just reading it once and then duplicating that recording. To push this aspect, after breaking the large recording into tracks, I transcribed one of the tracks and then read the resulting transcription. This is track 14 in the above download.

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