Way Back In The Day, 2007, I found and scraped out a Barbie phonecall-generator service and compiled what I’d found into a single .ogg file, with the 17000 names in its dataset.
Again, I am obligated to warn you: that original recording is a real, SCP-grade cognitohazard, a genuinely dangerous artefact. Nobody has ever listened to the whole thing in one sitting, and the people who’ve tried never talk about the experience in terms of listening to it. They only describe the decompressive experience afterwards, and always as a kind of psychic negative space “where the names should be”, as though something important was taken and a blind spot left in its place.
Nevertheless, that recording made the rounds again in 2015, and soon after that somebody put it on Youtube. A little while later, the original files found its way to archive.org, for great benefit of posterity, and all was well.
Today I discovered that posterity had showed up, and in 2020 somebody used those files and made an edm/noise album called “One By One The Stars Were Going Out”.
This, right here. This is what the internet is for.
