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This was fun. I wonder if the code/algo behind this tends towards a certain type of painting or "average".

Reminds me of this video that shows what the youtube codec tends towards over a 1000 reuploads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR4KHfqw-oE

If you don't have 15 minutes to waste on exposition, this is the first video that did this, and it's only 3 minutes total: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icruGcSsPp0

It's crazy how severe that a/v sync issue is. Is that something with his setup or is YouTube just terrible?

His setup is normal. It’s a recreation of well known audio experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room

> Lucier said that a performance need not use his text, and that the performance may be recorded in any room.[citation needed]

I can't help but feel like the "citation needed" should be after "Lucier said". Otherwise, it reads like it's saying that the fact that it could work in any room with any text needs a citation.

He mentions this at some point. Youtube shifts back the audio track ever so slightly on upload. After 800ish uploads it is completly gone from the video.

But I don't understand why this would happen.

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