Golden Shield Music (2009)

Multi-channel generative sound installation for censored Internet Protocol (IP) addresses

Golden Shield Music (Marco Donnarumma, 2009) is a generative audio composition for eight audio channels laying between net art and sound art created for Zeppelin 2009 exhibition at the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture. The work is inspired by the Golden Shield Project, sometimes referred to as the ‘Great Firewall of China’. According to Wikipedia “it is a censorship and surveillance project operated by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) division of the Communist government of China. The project started in 1998 and began operations in November of 2003”. It involves the massive use of web technologies such as IP (Internet Protocol address, a computer’s network address) blocking, DNS filtering and redirection, URL filtering, Packet filtering, Connection reset) to censor specific contents - mostly, but not only, political or historical subjects - through the most common web search engines such ...

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Multi-channel generative sound installation for censored Internet Protocol (IP) addresses

Golden Shield Music (Marco Donnarumma, 2009) is a generative audio composition for eight audio channels laying between net art and sound art created for Zeppelin 2009 exhibition at the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture. The work is inspired by the Golden Shield Project, sometimes referred to as the ‘Great Firewall of China’. According to Wikipedia “it is a censorship and surveillance project operated by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) division of the Communist government of China. The project started in 1998 and began operations in November of 2003”. It involves the massive use of web technologies such as IP (Internet Protocol address, a computer’s network address) blocking, DNS filtering and redirection, URL filtering, Packet filtering, Connection reset) to censor specific contents - mostly, but not only, political or historical subjects - through the most common web search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Msn. Web Data organize the musical notation, establishing a commonly erroneous relationship between Internet information and musical algorithm which nevertheless can sound harmonious and “handcrafted”.

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