about RNDTXT

invitation by Kim Cascone

this project is based on a new kind of spam people are getting these days...the use of random text embedded into an email is meant to confuse spam email filters (Bayesian filters?)...I have been collecting spam for a couple of years now (images and text) so I can use the content in my projects...I consider any unsolicited spam sent to me as free to use/open source content...

I took 4 or 5 months worth of spam that contained random text and constructed a single text file containing all of it...

here are the stats on the text file:

• 17,332 words
• chars (sans spaces) 125,810
• chars (w/spaces) 143,187
• 145,270K in size

This project is not constrained to being a music/sound project and is focused primarily on using data sets to create artwork.

MP3 // RNDTXT

	Title	Length	Size (MB)	Artist
1	Vicimus GEGAN	05:32	5.09	Alex Young
2	ramona	02:40	2.45	bjorn eriksson
3	ramona1.avi	00:08	2.04	bjorn eriksson
4	ramona2.avi	00:09	2.16	bjorn eriksson
5	ramona3.avi	01:27	20.15	bjorn eriksson
6	rndm	03:13	2.95	brian klein
7	carlkruger_2m3s.mp3	02:03	1.88	carl kruger
8	poesía for RNDTXT	02:46	3.17	cjitter
9	RanchoGatekeepPlenty.mp3	03:47	3.47	DanHendricks
10	_sf_2602_4.mov	05:03	34.23	etch
11	glacier libretto	02:22	2.18	glenn bach
12	OwenGreenRndTxt.mp3	03:51	3.53	OwenGreen
13	Upspamcut.mp3	06:11	5.67	Spagirus
14	rndtxtsong	05:00	5.73	terrencewinthorp
15	babble_on.mp3	01:12	1.10	tofu

 

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