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DECEMBER 22, 2006: Featured Auction |
Own
my Voice and use it for anything
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Artist: Abhishek
Hazra
I, Abhishek Hazra,
a visual artist by profession and currently
based in Bangalore, India, hereby offer my
own voice for ownership. The successful bidder
will own my voice, in the sense that he or
she would be absolutely free to sample my
voice and recreate a digital version of my
voice. They would also enjoy the rights to
the free and unrestricted usage of that digitally
recreated voice for any purpose whatsoever.
To create this digital simulation of my voice,
the successful bidder needs to have access
to large library of my voice fragments. He/She
can request me to provide them with such a
library. However, the overall running length
of the fragments shouldn’t exceed 5
hours. If the successful bidder requires any
particular fragments, then that information
needs to be communicated to me, before I ship
out the CD containing the recorded sample
of my voice. The audio file that has been
currently uploaded to ebay, is a recording
of my voice reciting out an explanation of
Kenneth Arrow’s Possibility Theorem
that spelled the death knell for the very
idea of representative democracy. The image
is basically a snapshot of the waveform of
the recording.
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