The Hitchhiker's Guide to an Active Archive/Content Protocol/1000 Fragments
🎵 1000 Fragments embed goes here. Play it quietly while we're talking over it.
Navigator: Switched channels to BASE. We're tuned into '1000 Fragments'. Performer: 1000 Fragement is the debut album of Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda. In creating his minimalist and breathtaking art and music, he draws from mathematical concepts, quantum mechanics, data, sound and light, transforming them into works of intangible power and beauty, often capturing the invisible structures and data that shape our lives. Protocoller: Let us Listen.
If pad messages about channel switching
Navigator: We've received new instructions from Ground Control. Now switching channels.
🎵 Play channel switch channel_switch.mp3
CHANNEL UP2: ... -->
CHANNEL UP1: Get Lamp -->
CHANNEL BASE: 1000 Fragments-->
CHANNEL DWN1: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise -->
CHANNEL DWN2: ... -->
If the piece of content ends while tuned in to this channel.
Navigator: That's the end of this piece of content. Protocoller: Give an outro to this piece of content. Performer: You are listening to the 'Channel X' section of 1000 fragments. The album is divided in three parts. The first 9 tracks make up what we just heard, a dynamic and noisy sound collage of radio and classical music samples, mixed with tones and noises used by Ikeda. The 5 following tracks are the 5 Zones (1994-95; these tracks are divided but they form one big track without interruption) and finally the last 16-min long ambient track, Luxus.