Auto Confessional 3

July 9, 2007 on 12:35 am | In Auto Confessional 3

The Auto Confessional Network

Download Listen to a sample recording of the Networked Confessional

The Auto Confessional Network is an automatic and self-regulating installation of singing consumer desktop computers that reveal peoples cathartic anonymous online confessions.

Specifically designed software that consists of one server application networked to nine clients that are distributed over a small network that continually download Cyber-Confessions from secular and Quazi-religious websites that offer a form of digital absolution via the convenience of an anonymous posted entry.

The system downloads the resulting information which is parsed into a text buffer and sung by Text to Speech Synthesis in a melodic Canon, a form of structured hymn that is also known as a Round. The Canon is sung by a choir of eight 1998 Apple G3 iMacs and a Graphite Power Mac G4. There is something voyeuristic and compulsive about listening and watching these machines intermittently melodically chant to an audience what is oft ones most private and intimate dialogue in the search for repentance and the desire for absolution. The experience can be altogether funny, beautiful, and profound, to being disturbing, unsettling, and darn right sexually explicit.

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Auto Confessional 3 stage 1

Software test January 2nd 2007