{"id":5618,"date":"2016-08-02T22:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T02:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2016-08-02T22:48:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T02:48:37","slug":"a-mile-of-sound-20-outdoor-voip-phones-heard-all-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2016\/08\/02\/a-mile-of-sound-20-outdoor-voip-phones-heard-all-at-once.html","title":{"rendered":"A Mile of Sound: 20 Outdoor VOIP Phones Heard All At Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhat do you get when you open up 20 or so VOIP telephones along Third Avenue in Manhattan and listen to them all at once? Some might call it a wall of noise. I actually find it surprisingly engaging. I just wish sound quality over VOIP didn\u2019t sound so squeaky and shrill.<\/p>\n<p>I hear a carnival of noise. Individual voices emerge, distinguishable words and phrases, but mostly it is a loosely organized cacophony that actually makes sense. This is the sound of raw surveillance. It reminds me of a memorable moment as a kid in Tampa, when I picked up the telephone in my bedroom and heard hundreds of voices talking all at once. Somehow all the lines had gotten crossed and I heard and insane hive of words, voice after voice piling on top of each other, struggling to break away and be the one that was heard loudest.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F276580608&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1080&#038;maxheight=1000\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhat do you get when you open up 20 or so VOIP telephones along Third Avenue in Manhattan and listen to them all at once? Some might call it a wall of noise. I actually find it surprisingly engaging. I just wish sound quality over VOIP didn\u2019t sound so squeaky and shrill. \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-hoarding","category-listening-watching","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-1sC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}