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Listen To Wikipedia
What if someone told you that the inhabitants of a certain planet are planning to get together to play one neverending orchestra in which every muscle move belonging to a person is a note on an instrument? And what if we tell you that we know a planet where this is taking place right now as we speak? If you are impatient to know how this collaboration sounds, well spoiler alert: It sounds very Japanese and you do not want it to stop! Japan is awesome!
Listen to Wikipedia is the project of Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi and is the sound of what people are doing on the most informative encyclopedia on the Internet. It is the sound of what millions of editors and users are doing in order to make the human race a more knowledgeable collection of objects! Now hundreds of momentary interactions might sound dense, distracting, and unrecognizable, pretty much somewhere near a Boredoms song such as “(circle)”. But the results beg to differ as they echo a meditative stream of lively occurrences. Things were more Steve Reich than we had predicted.
Every drop you hear is actually an interaction itself:
Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note. Green…
