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A rather John Cage-ian anti-music piece although the only thing of interest but the way it was written I wasn't sure if the 4 GB limit "discovered" FAT32's limit or if it was a MP3 format issue that players simply couldn't handle files larger than 4 GB because they were 32 bit.

Other than that, I can't really say that creating a project of 700 days of generated noise is very interesting from an art perspective, but I'll save the art critiques beyond that.

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It could become even more art if it included a performance of playing this for 711 days, with someone changing the DVD to the next one every 3 days.

There's a John Cage piece called "Organ^2/As Slow As Possible" that is currently being performed on a specially-made pipe organ in Germany. Note changes happen every few years and the piece will finish in 2640.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible

Also Longplayer[1], played on singing bowls, which will end at midnight on the 31st of December, 2999. It's written to constantly evolve and never repeat. You can stream it!

http://longplayer.org/

  I wasn't sure if the 4 GB limit "discovered" FAT32's limit or if it was a MP3 format issue

I think it's based on commodity single-layer DVD's being the storage medium, since the process seems to produce ISO files for burning, which might imply ISO 9660 limitations.

Although, there's MPEG/DVD mastering software in use, which would (probably) be smart enough to fragment assets, and chain them together for continuous playback (considering the availability of dual-layer 8GB recordable DVD's).

The images also note a Thinkpad is in the mix, which might imply Windows XP (or newer), and possible access to NTFS partitions, which permits files of 2^64 bytes.

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