06. 04. 2006

The history of chart topping in 37 minutes

Here is an interesting art project by R. Luke DuBois, part of his "time-lapsed phonography" explorations. DuBois's sound installation for ipod entitled "Billboard" used the Billboard Hit Singles chart to create a 37 minute long interpretation of contemporary popular music. DuBois took all the songs that reached #1 and aggregated them into one "song." Weighted by the number of weeks the song was on the top of the charts, the average song got one second in the piece. The end result is an abstracted archive of the history of popular music from August 1958, when the list got started, up to today.

You can hear "Billboard" at the Bit Forms Gallery in New York until 7.15.05.

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Reese Gardnier:

How do we hear it, if we don't live in New York? A little internet-linking love here, please?

Reese Gardnier | June 4, 2006 6:27 PM

June 4, 2006 18:27

ray:

Sorry to report that I don't believe that the gallery has made a copy available on the internet.

ray | June 5, 2006 11:03 AM

June 5, 2006 11:03

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The history of chart topping in 37 minutes

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