1_sample
73 artists present the diverse Noise of Cologne on the now 3rd CD in this series. For me, this compilation seemed to be the perfect mix to release my shortest piece ever: 1_sample. It is one single „handcrafted“ sample of maximum value at 44.1 kHz rate, embedded into 2 seconds of silence, so most CD players should be able to play it back. The duration of the piece is about 2.27 x 10-5 seconds, or 22.7 microseconds. I love to be surprised by the different sonic outcomes, whenever a system is trying to convert it into audible sound waves. Also it always reminds me, that the digital realm is a discrete world with somehow limited possibilities. Hope, this little pop or click is telling you something, too. Happy listening to alle the great contributions of the noisy Cologne crowd.
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Credits
Noise of Cologne 3 (A-Musik NOC-3, release date: 16.03.2024)
1_sample: Tobias Hartmann
All Noise Of Cologne 3 contributions: 120 DEN / 7000 Eichen / Achim Mohné / Andreas O. Hirsch / Andreas Wagner / Andrés Quezada / Annie Bloch / Beate & Dietmar Bonnen / Bernd Härpfer / Bettina Wenzel / Bidisha Das / bleed Air / Bob Humid / C.C. Herman / chirp.crush / Claudia Robles-Angel / Clusterhead / COMBUSTION CONSTRUCTION / Croute / DANGOLOID / dennis aycicek / Echo Ho / Elisa Kühnl / Elisa Metz / Elisabeth Coudoux / EZB / Florian Zwißler / Frank Dommert / Friday Dunard / funfon / hans w. koch / Harald Sack Ziegler / Hye Young Sin / jeandado / Joel Jaffe / Julia Bünnagel / Justin / Kai Niggemann / Luís Antunes Pena / Marcus Schmickler / Martin Schmitz / Martin Weinreich / Menelaos Tomasides / Merzouga / Michael Peters / Mik Quantius / Miyake / MME dUO / Monoteur / Nathalie Brum / Neozaïre / Nils Quak / Numinos / Pedro A. Ramírez / Peter Simon / PVNCTVM / Ralf Schreiber / Roland Schappert / Roman Jungblut / Schlammpeitziger / Sebastian von der Heide / Shuoxin Tan Siegfried Koepf / Simon Rummel / Stefan Haagen / TBZ / That Night / Therapeutische Hörgruppe / Titanoboa / Tobias Hartmann / Viola Klein / Volker Zander / Wolfram Wire
Details
The original single sample was created with a custom Pure Data patch by writing one maximum value of 1 into a wavetable with 128 positions of value 0. Sample rate was 44,1 kHz. For the CD release, the resulting mono audio file was embedded into the middle of two seconds of silence and converted to a stereo file by duplicating the mono track. The editors of the CD had to further expand the silence part, because the the pressing was technically not able to put such a short piece on CD between other tracks.