Click::RAND

Click::RAND is an object-based sound installation that, through a media archaeological approach, connects the electro-mechanical relay as an artefact of relay-based calculating machines and publications of large random number sets as historically related media artefacts. Through the relay, Click::RAND is the sonic articulation of The RAND Corporation’s book, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates. Re-presenting the book’s decimal characters as their binary equivalent is a way of allowing the relay to ‘speak’ with its own voice. As such, giving a ‘voice’ to A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates through the operative presence of the relay echoes the book albeit in a way that breaks it apart and represents it in a new way.

2019/20