iTunes.exe interpreted as raw 8bit 22050 PCM data

RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2

the FIFTH Mercy Podcast for Liverpool Biennial is a guest/host cast by avant garde romantics Holly Pester and Daniel Rourke

Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the 'Die Hard' Method

Written, presented and edited by: 
Daniel Rourke : http://machinemachine.net 
Holly Pester : http://hollypester.com

Featuring Original Work by:

George Major : http://www.georgemajor.com 
Claire Potter : http://clairelouisepotter.blogspot.co.uk

Featuring Audio Samples From:

Bo Didley, I'm a Man 
The Yardbirds, I'm a man 
Jacques Dutronc, La Fille Du Père Noël 
Davie Bowie, The Jean Genie 
The Winstons, Amen, Brother 
Danger Mouse, Interlude 
Die Hard Original Soundtrack (inc. Let it Snow, by Dean Martin)

Featuring Textual Samples From:

Roger Ebert, Die Hard, July 15, 1988 : http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19880715/REVIEWS/807150301/1023 
Scientific American, Shakespeare to Blame for Introduction of European Starlings to U.S. : http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=call-of-the-reviled 
Wired Magazine, Cue the Scream : http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-10/st_scream 
BBC 1Xtra, The Story of the 'Amen Break' with Crissy Criss : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011cjqd 
New York Times, 1877, American Acclimatization Society : http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50912F73B5B137B93C7A8178AD95F438784F9

Sampling, Acclimatisation, and 'The Die Hard Method'

In 2006 I mixed and released 3 music podcasts to the world. Here is the third, from May 2006.

<a href="http://www.huge-entity.com/2006/05/podcast-iii-musical-coagulation.html">Musical Coagulation</a>

Tracklist:

Roger To The Rescue - Alan Silvestri
Let Go (Canto de Ossanha) - Martin Denny
Killer's Back - Barry White & The Love Unlimited Orchestra
Cacurica Dances - Taraf de Haidouks

Nalleya Savimathe (Lover You Speak Beautiful Words) - Vijaya Anand
Lewisdale Blues - John Fahey
Go Home Pigs - Ronald Stein
Reprise - Medeski, Martin & Wood

24 - The Residents
Girl Of My Dreams - Charles Mingus
Once upon a time (excerpt) - Basil Kirchin
SooKi's Lullaby - John Zorn

Heart of The Sunrise - Yes
Wild Honey Pie - The Beatles
Head Start - Tom Scott
Baretta's Theme - Sammy Davis Jr.
Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell

Huge-Entity - Podcast III  -  May 2006

RAWTunes.exe 10 is a noise-art album made in homage to the now late, (great?) iTunes 10 release. As iTunes 11 makes its way onto computers across the globe this album will remain as a media-archive of splendid noises transcoded from iTunes 10 executables.

BONUS TRACK - ITunes - 10.4.2 - Unsigned 8 Bit PCM No Endian

ITunes - 10.6.1 - Signed 24bit No Endian

ITunes - 10.5.1 - 32bit Float Default Endian

ITunes - 10.2.1 - GSM 6.10 Big Endian Mono

I took a selection of iTunes 10 executables and converted them into RAW format using various techniques. This is a selection of tracks from the resulting 8 track album: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/rawtunes.exe-10/id537558245">RAWTunes.exe 10</a> (available on <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/rawtunes.exe-10/id537558245">iTunes</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rawtunes-Exe-10/dp/B008CQUEUA">Amazon</a>)

<b>More on the project can be read <a href="http://machinemachine.net/text/arts/listen-to-my-executables">here</a></b>

ITunes-10.1.1 - Unsigned 8 bit 22050 little

ITunes-10.3.1 - Vox ADPCM

ITunes-10.0.1 - signed 16 bit pcm Little Endian

In 1993 my sister, my brother, and I compiled a time-capsule. Inside we placed many treasures which were significant to our life at the time (including a McDonald's chicken-nugget curry sauce). We vowed that in the year 2000 we would come back to the spot under the oak tree and dig up our time-capsule. We didn't dig it up until 2006 :)

You can see a photo album of us digging up the time-capsule here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/albums/72157594437781463/with/332919642/

This is a transfer of the audio cassette tape we recorded and put into the time-capsule. It was water logged and disgusting when we dug it up, but it plays just about ok. I had to manually change the speed by ear. 

I wouldn't recommend listening to the whole thing, the first 50 seconds is the best bit... I have marked all the talking bits with comments.

1993 Time-Capsule Recording

new BONUS TRACK for additional release of '<a href="https://soundcloud.com/therourke/sets/rawtunes-exe-10">RAWerTunes.exe 10</a>', a Redux - with additional 3D Dude - exapted in collaboration with <a href="http://files.alexmyers.info/blahg/724/">Alex Myers</a> for the forthcoming <a href="http://www.runcomputerrun.com">Run Computer Run</a> exhibition

therourke

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