Sam Kidel – Silicon Ear [LP]

"In a process he describes as ​“mimetic hacking”, Kidel used architectural plans based on photos of the data centre to acoustically model the sonic qualities of the Google’s data centre in Council Bluffs, Iowa . The resulting acoustics on Live @ Google Data Center simulate the sound of Kidel’s algorithmically-generated notes, rhythms and melodies reverberating through the space, as though a bold illegal party was being held in the maximum security location.

The generative audio patch Kidel used to make Voice Recognition DoS Attack seeks to disable the functionality of voice recognition software by triggering phonemes (the smallest units of language). The project, first developed for the Eavesdropping series of events in Melbourne, exploits a weakness in voice recognition that cannot distinguish between individual voices."

Latency, 2019