Originally published at MIT's Leonardo On-Line in 1998Experience While connecting to the Internet, the screaming of two modems arguing about their handshaking protocols finally stops when they come to an agreement. The modem speaker is turned off, but the modem continues to translate digital information into an acoustic signal: music for machines, perhaps. It is odd that such an energetic acoustic experience should begin such an unusually silent experience. Bits come stream

From @ New York 1998 With the opening of the latest incarnation of the Intel New York Music Festival, a great deal of attention is being paid to the novelty -- and commercial and artistic potential-- of cybercasting. But "Cybercasting" itself is nothing new: Around the turn of the last century, an opera being performed in Philadelphia was transmitted via telephone to New York. In 1927, live images of Herbert Hoover were sent by telephone from Washington, D.C., to New York C

From Developer.com 1997 The conventional wisdom among IT professionals is that audio is a toy, for entertainment purposes only. To date, the best use of audio in user interfaces is in video games and CD ROMs. But thanks to faster processors, sophisticated new algorithms, and well-thought-out new APIs, user interface designers stand poised to take advantage of perhaps the most subtly sophisticated sensing devices human beings have -- our ears. The elements of hearingHuman hea