The first month is over, and the stream is now looking for a new home, but four one hour excerpts are available below (and for download).
Excerpts
Only Everything Lasts Forever
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About
Only Everything Lasts Forever
is a very long sound composition for MP3.It contains every sound we can distinguish as humans, as dictated by the MP3 specification (ISO/IEC 11172-3). It explores the social and political associations of sound representation, and the psychology and philosophy of noise and emptiness.
It draws on enumerative pieces like Every Icon, readymades and other "empty art" like 4'33", and glitch work as exemplified by Yasunao Tone, the Ceibas Cycle and the Flickr glitch art pool.
While the entire composition is approximately 10450 years long, the first month of the composition was streamed starting on Sunday March 28th at 7 PM EST. The rest of the composition is currently looking for a new home and embodiment.
Two days after the opening, on Tuesday, March 30th from 7-9 PM EST, there was a meetup for offline discussion in West Hall Gallery 111 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Visitors were encouraged to listen to the composition before arriving.
Only Everything Lasts Forever
is an open source project toward the fulfillment of an MFA. All source, including the written thesis, is available on Google Code.