The answer: PAIN. (Turn down your speakers.)
Or, a better description via
Gawker (which contains links to the original video and others!):
Musician Patrick Liddell recorded a video of himself giving a short monologue and uploaded it to YouTube. He then downloaded the file from YouTube, and uploaded that file—repeating the process 1000 times. It got pretty weird.
Liddell, who records music as Ontologist, started the project as a tribute to avant-garde musician Alvin Lucier and his famous piece "I Am Sitting in a Room," wherein Lucier recorded, re-played, and re-recorded himself speaking in a room until only the room's resonant frequencies were left.
Liddell's project is a little different, as the degradation occurs thanks to the digital operations taking place—it's as though his "room" is YouTube. Or think of it like the YouTube version of photocopying photocopies until nothing is left but a big dark smudge.
17 Comments
ctrlaltbleachCreepy! So am I like going to die in some allotted amount of time now unless I free his spirit thats still trapped somewhere on earth?
blankfistThe temporal compression held up a lot better than I was expecting, considering how much data rate is throttled low by YT to keep file sizes down.
TheJMansays...So the zerg found youtube i see
deathcowthank you for the video, I understand the instructions it has given me and I will faithfully carry them at the specified time
poolcleaner@deathcow: I am well pleased, young Cerebrate.
dystopianfuturetodayThis is cool. Wish I had a promote.
ArkaiumIf you play it back in reverse, there's a recipe for a delicious Chicken Casserole.
chilaxeFinally, the secret recipe to Choggie's delicious reality-distorting jambalaya!
GeeSussFreeKKILL IT, KILL IT NOW!
quantumushroomMmmmmmmm. Liquidy.
jmdsays...You know, instead of spending all that time uploading and downloading, you could have just compressed the video in Microsoft video 1
ReverendTedNothing a little Zoom-Enhance can't fix.
dotdude*art
siftbotAdding video to channels (Art) - requested by dotdude.
deathcowI want to know what chain of events leads to it sounding so watery
jmdsays...just as the video is compressed, so is the audio. When your a kid, have you copied an audio tape that was itself a copy of an audio tape? Ditto with VHS, theres a noticeable drop in quality after one copy. After several, the audio just gets warped and then mutates into the sound you hear here.
deathcowyeah... I realize the mechanism by which it happened..... I am wondering what specific audio processes end up with such a 'wet' sound
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