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Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts Sake

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the anything-is-art-if-your-can-justify-it dept.

ungulation writes "A joint project of SFMOMA, The Goethe-Institut, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Walker Art Center, a group called CrossFade broadcast the entire linux kernel 2.4.18. From the CrossFade website: "In Free Radio Linux, the entire source code of the Linux kernel will be webcast over the Internet. A speech synthesizer will convert into talk radio the 4,141,432 lines of code, which will take about 600 days to read." According to the Free Radio Linux website the stream is only available in ogg-vorbis format."

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  1. Re: Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts by Fesh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Geez, folks... It's performance art. If everything had to be practical, this'd be one hell of a dull world. I mean, what practical use does a performance of The Nutcracker Suite (for instance) have?

    As geeky as we geeks are, artists are at a whole other level of weird. Accept it and stick to what you're good at, huh?

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    --Fesh
    Kill -9 'em all, let root@localhost sort 'em out.