Once again on www.rhizome.org , I found an art piece that I found rather interesting because it was a computer based program that also incorporated music. Sebastian Schmieg, is a Berlin-based student who focuses on new media created a piece called LMB, or Last Midi Background. LMB is an internet radio that plays a continuous stream of randomly picked MIDI music. The twist is that all of the songs are songs being played are background songs that are being played on other websites.
This artwork plays off of the concept of importance. It is as if this program generates a stage for the songs that are considered of “background importance” to the other information on the web. It also deals with the appropriation of data, like many other digital pieces which involve randomly generated data which separates the artist from the artwork.
I think that this is again a piece of art that is still a conceptual piece. It is not aesthetically pleasing to most, and provides little hint at the meaning without the artists statement. I think that creating art in the digital age should be about communication and connection. LMB was designed to show a loud colorful web and it doesn’t really communicate that to me.
All information approriated from Rhizome Art Base.
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