http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/virginia_woolf_in_chinese_sounds_just_li ... and that's problem number one with Call Numbers: The Library Recordings, a sonic-library-data art project by the artist Laiwan. It works like this: Find a book in the Vancouver Public Library's catalogue (here). Copy the call number and paste it into the music-maker (here). Then wait a couple of minutes and your call number will be translated into what the music critics might call "a lush soundscape." Whatever. It sounds like an oscillator and a stoned guy spacing out in front of a drum kit. And it sounds like that no matter who you put in. Theodore Roethke's collected... Copyright 2008 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:46:18 -0800 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:06:22 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Doesn't Mudede have the patent on that sort of thing?

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