Re: [-empyre-] a bit on delay

[Brendan Howell <mute@netaxs.com>]

On 6. Apr 2004, at 4:22 Uhr, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> I'd like to see some other content, than disappearance, emerge - some
> content where the protocols themselves became manifest.
>
> If I knew enough about Ethereal, perhaps that could be modified...
>
> I knew Alvin, and have heard the piece of course - it's a beautiful 
> piece.
> He did a number of works involving room, resonance, feedback - another 
> is
> Music on a Long Thin Wire, and there was a performance I heard live
> involving echolocators in a dark room.



Some versions of tcpdump (the unix network sniffer utility) have an 
audio output option.  It could probably be tweaked to filter only ping 
or traceroute echos.

I remember a record I bought about 4 years ago from a Swedish group 
called Traceroute.  They had made recordings of internet traffic at 
some of the major interconnection points and then hacked the packet 
dumps open with an audio editor to make the resulting recordings.  
Sorry I don't have more info but the record is packed away somewhere in 
the States.  It was an interesting concept but a bit unlistenable for 
me.  I also question the method they used.  I unless they wrote some 
kind of conversion algorithm, the sounds will not be distinguishable 
from simply dumping any pile of data into your sound card.

-Brendan