Taipei Hotel, Taiwan 2003

February 2003. Shortly after arriving in Taipei, a television broadcast related to the Taiwan Stock Exchange was recorded directly from the audio signal. The recording captures fragments of financial commentary, signal noise, and broadcast compression, preserving the temporal and technical conditions of its transmission.

Conceived as a phonographic document rather than a musical composition, the work registers the sound of financial information in circulation—language, cadence, and electronic mediation—at a specific historical moment. The stock market is not represented visually but accessed through its acoustic residue, revealing the infrastructure through which economic abstraction becomes audible.

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MPEG ADTS, Layer III, v1
128 kbps, 44.1 kHz, Stereo