Today is the official release of Infinite Glitch, an online based artwork that was created using, among other things, Pd-extended and PdGst. Thanks so much to everyone who has helped with the development of these great tools!

You can read through the description below or jump straight to the project page: http://infiniteglitch.com

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Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is a stream-of-conciousness representation of this overwhelming flood of media, its fractured and degraded sounds and images reflecting how little we as an audience are able to retain from this daily barrage.

Infinite Glitch is an automated system that generates an ever-changing audio/video stream from the constantly increasing mass of media files freely available on the web. Source audio and video files are ripped from a variety of popular media hosting sites, torn apart, and recombined using collage and glitch techniques to create an organic, chaotic flood of sensory input.

Ben Baker-Smith

http://bitsynthesis.com

Lovely!
It's even glitchy just to get it streaming for me too!!
LOL
Thank you, and keep well ~ Shankar

very nice, I like it. One comment, the sound tends to be quite similar, while its sources are not.

I got to say its a very nice idea and it a little scary / like evil scary

This is beautiful... and I agree with Shawn, "evil scary". I can't get over how simple, yet powerful the concept is. We absorb all of this junk without even beginning to think about what are real opinion is. We want the dancing pixels to tell us what we think. In the end, our very nature is governed by the experiences that reach us in certain psychological ways. The media knows how to tap into these things. Seeing it in this perspective is almost like the disorganized way that our brains actually comprehend things I think. Memory is an act of messy creation. I hope I don't sound like a middle-aged crack-pot. I'm a fifteen year old who takes great interest in media I've been fed practically all my life and its artistic study. One question: Would it be alright for me to use audio samples from this in some of my music?

Austin PG