1,44MB Floppy Disk in jewel case.

Ristretto Press release:

Batch Totem | Trunkeret & Ikonisk [rist07] 'Trunkeret & Ikonisk' consists of 19 audiotracks on a standard 1'44 mb Floppydisk.
The audio is encoded in the GSM 6.10 WAV format at various bitrates. The disk holds 74 minutes of audio, that can be
played on a computer with standard audio-players like Winamp and Windows Media Player without any external codec installed.
The audio has not been converted from existing material, but composed directly in the spectral domain, using the GSM format as a chosen timbral limitation. The aim has not been to fit as much data as possible on a lowlevel medium as the floppydisk, but rather to explore the musical possibillities inherent in the specific medium and audioformat.
Using listening equipment with a subwoofer is recommended.

GSM WAV CODEC The GSM WAVE format is generally used as a speech compression codec in mobile phones / speech applications.
The codec is embedded in Micrsosoft Windows by default. On this release the codec compresses datasize
(depending on sampling frequency) down to the lowest possible filesize that a given filesystem can handle.
On a NTFS filesystem this can be as low as 4 KB per minute of audio in WAVE format ( Sample track 3 is exactly 4 KB in size and holds one minute of audio. Samplerate: 320HZ.) On a Windows machine the lowest possible file / clustersize can be determined by opening Notepad.exe and save an empty document. The displayed filesize can vary, but generally the actual size is displayed by right clicking the file and selecting 'properties'

» Trunkeret & Ikonisk Selected as No 1. in Top 10 Music Technology Concepts surpassing Radiohead, Kylie Minouge,
Daft Punk and Walt Disney! For more see also blog entries at » Musicthing or » Wired Magazine

Total Playing Time: - 74:52 MIN [1 hour 14 minutes 52 seconds]
Average Track Length: - 3:56 MIN
Additional Files: - TRACKLIST.rtf 4kb - DSK_INF.rtf 3kb - °.txt 186KB
Total Filesize: 1,23 MB (1.290.308 byte)
Audio montage, conversion, graphics and cover design by Jonas Olesen 2005/06


   

Playback problems can occur with WINAMP V.5.23 [X86] Not tested on MAC OS, LINUX, UNIX
Converted using the GSM WAV CODEC [http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html]
Danke Schön Sune T.B. Nielsen, Karl-Emil Jersie, IMA DATA.
Published by Ristretto [rist #07] 2007 [http://grainofsound/risteretto]

Optimized for MICROSOFT WINDOWS WINAMP 5.03 [http://winamp.com]
WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 10
[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/10/default.aspx]

|TRACK_TITLE_FORMAT_HZ_TIME_FILE SIZE|

01 ~_¤ GOTO BLUE WRITERS ITT ROLL
[GSM 6.10_WAV _0_350KHZ_5:00_ 21KB]
02 ~_¤ NOTCHLOCK ON DLL SLEEVE S
[GSM 6.10_WAV _0_320KHZ_1:00_4KB]
03 ~_¤ HANDLE FLAC SHINE-EVENT DRM
[GSM 6.10_WAV _500KHZ _2:00_12KB]
04 ~_¤ VOID IMPOSED SPONSOR SCORE
[GSM 6.10_WAV _700KHZ _2:00_ 17KB]
05 ~_¤ SIZEOF CHEF ELVES AA TIN FOIL
[GSM 6.10_WAV _400KHZ _4:00_ 20KB]
06 ~_¤ LOCATE FCC MOAN GRIP IRS OA
[GSM 6.10_WAV _1000KHZ _1:00_12KB]
07 ~_¤ LIB SET VOICE STRING DF
[GSM 6.10_WAV _11025KHZ _1:00_ 132KB]
08 ~_¤ MACRO SPAT STEP AT OOOO
[GSM 6.10_WAV _1000KHZ _3:00_36KB]
09 ~_¤ O COSINE RPM MEANS EPIC ROOT
[GSM 6.10_WAV _1000KHZ _3:00_36KB]