I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
Mad Generation Loss takes a recording—here Allen Ginsburg reading the first section of his seminal "Howl"—and every second re-encodes the recording again and again. The result is a second by second descent into a kind of digital madness, and at the end of the 1:50 clip near total destruction.
Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time!
The final audio recording is hosted on SoundCloud. More information to come.
If you'd like to run the script yourself, you'll need to have mp3info, mp3splt, mp3wrap, sox, and lame installed.