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The Brilliant Idea

So what was that brilliant idea that started me on my rediculous quest? It was actually a pretty dinky but potentially interesting idea:

what does the media going through our networks sound like in its raw form?

• If you were to play back a movie or song in exactly the order in which the pieces arrived via bittorrent, how would it sound?
• If we were to tab into the mass of audio and visual data flowing through, say, a student dorm network and play back all the the layered, fragmented streams together, how would it sound?

I know this is similar to the work of scanner and other musicians who have been working on this for quite some time…but it seems easy enough to do with some simple sniffing and it could be very cool