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{
  "name": "balloons",
  "tagline": "adam john williams",
  "body": "# BALLOONS\r\n## adam john williams 2016\r\n\r\nballoons is an 888-byte digital artwork consisting of a poem about the experience of ego death whilst under the influence of nitrous oxide/\"laughing gas\"\r\n\r\nthe poem is followed by sonic pi code which produces generative music to accompany the poem, processed with effects to simulate the auditory hallucinations caused by the nitrous oxide\r\n\r\nits size is limited to 888 bytes so that it can be stored on an ntag216 NFC/RFID chip which has been implanted into the artist's left hand\r\n\r\npoem & code reproduced below, or download from https://adamjohnwilliams.github.io/art/balloons\r\n\r\nuse sonic pi to hear & interact with the music https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi\r\n\r\nperformance video coming soon\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://adamjohnwilliams.github.io/art/adamjohnwilliams_balloons.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt text=\"hand of the artist - NFC chip can be seen between thumb & forefinger\">\r\n\r\n```\r\n#And what if when, I turn to dust\r\n#The earth collapses in around me\r\n#Falling, shrinking down, compressing\r\n#Passing to the other side\r\n\r\n#And in that moment, movement ceases\r\n#All is still, no time progresses\r\n#Curtain up, expose the mechanism\r\n#Hey, remember the balloons?\r\nlive_loop :k do\r\nsample :bd_haus\r\nsleep 0.5\r\nsample :bd_haus\r\nsample :sn_dolf, amp: 0\r\nsleep 0.5\r\nend\r\nlive_loop :h do\r\nsleep 0.25\r\nsample :drum_cymbal_closed, amp: 0\r\nsleep 0.25\r\nend\r\nlive_loop :b do\r\nsample :bass_hit_c, rate: 1, amp: 0.7, cutoff: (rrand_i 30, 80), res: 0.8\r\nsleep 0.25\r\nend\r\nwith_fx :slicer do\r\nwith_fx :ixi_techno do\r\nwith_fx :reverb do\r\nlive_loop :nos do\r\nsample :ambi_drone, rate: 1\r\n2.times do\r\nsample :ambi_choir, rate: (rrand 0.12, 1.5), amp: 0\r\nsleep 0.25\r\nend\r\n4.times do\r\nsample :perc_bell, rate: (rrand 0.12, 1.5), amp: 0\r\nsleep rrand(0.2, 2)\r\nend\r\nend\r\nend\r\nend\r\nend\r\n#use Sonic Pi, change amp val\r\n#Adam John Williams 2016\r\n```",
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}