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"a tour of manhattan in corona times"
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#69 [ccc_4].
Un-public corona con-fine cyber-session on Sunday May 24th, 2020 connecting Leslie Singer in New York City (USA) {dictaphone with the recording of a walk around Manhattan, on May 17th, starting in the Chelsea neighbourhood }, FPCM in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) {voice, whistling, iPad}, E_Rébus in Bures-sur-Yvette (France) {dictaphones, electronics}, Har$ in Montreuil (France) {dictaphones, chimes}, via Discord VoIP.

The cover photograph and sketchy map of the Manhattan walk were made by Leslie.

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"For this final panel in what, in hindsight, has become an unPublic con-fine quadriptych, on Sunday May 24th FPCM in the Rivierenbuurt in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Har$ in Montreuil, an eastern suburb of Paris (France), and E_Rébus in Bures-sur-Yvette, a little to the south-west of the French capital, over the internet shared the unPublic 'voice room' (u_P_soundz) in the VoIP application Discord with Leslie Singer, in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan, NYC (USA). A week earlier Leslie had taken her digital dictaphone out on a tour of Manhattan, and recorded her walk. In the uP voice-room she played back and re-commented her recording, along to sounds played by FPCM, Rébus and Har$, which included cassette dictaphone recordings of a walk in the streets of Brooklyn, NY, early October 2012.

The cyber-session lasted about 30 minutes and was recorded locally by each of the four participants. A fifth recording was obtained via a 'listening-only' connection.

Metaphorically mirroring the 'packet switching' of VoIP, which cuts up the audio streams into small packets of data that travel the network independently and are reconstituted into their original temporal order only at their ultimate destination, for this documentary album, the five recordings were each split into twelve 'packets' (with approximately the same break points and some minor edits here and there), resulting in a set of 60 separate tracks. That set contains five quite distinct projections (D,F,H,L & R) for each of the 12 'data packets' in which the 30 minutes online audio exchange was cut up. We put all of them in a bag, shook it up, and then picked out the packets, blindly, one by one by one ...

Download the album, and set play back to 'random' each time you listen.

The track order proposed here as a default is but one among more than 8 sexvigintillion possible ones. The precise number is 8 320 987 112 741 390 144 276 341 183 223 364 380 754 172 606 361 245 952 449 277 696 409 600 000 000 000 000.

[[ Exactly one of these will, when played backwards, add up to 42. Yóu might be the lucky one ;-) ! ]]"