"Jason Freeman is an Associate Professor of Music in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech.
N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella) is interactive software art for Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP that turns the process of searching for and downloading MP3 files into a chaotic musical collage. Gnutella is one of the many peer-to-peer file-sharing protocols that emerged in the wake of Napster. Unlike Napster, there is no central server and no single company in control.
It can be difficult to locate and download specific music: searches can take a long time to return results, and downloads sometimes grind to a halt before they can finish. It was exactly these shortcomings that led Freeman to develop N.A.G.
Essentially, N.A.G. is a simple instrument with which users can 'play' the Gnutella network. N.A.G. continuously checks the status of all downloading songs and uses their respective download speeds to prioritize song segments for real-time playback while they download. Users can control many different aspects of the algorithm, such as how many songs may play simultaneously, how quickly N.A.G. moves amongst songs, and whether N.A.G. varies playback speed and volume in proportion to the download speeds of each song." -- From Turbulence
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This copy was given to the Electronic Literature Lab by Jo-Anne Green and Helen Thorington in Spring of 2016.
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