Round 08 of 15 · 2 October · From the ocean to compute

Hardware and data on the sea

The most literal round. Server boards with heatsinks and cables floating on the swell, bits running down the cables on a beat, sound for the first time. It proved the clock could be musical. It was also hurried, and it had drifted a long way from water.

The pieces

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Horizon, boards

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Server boards on the swell; cables that find the next board and light; bits on the beat; nine lanes funnelling into each cable; 84 beats a minute, with sound.

The clock with its swing, and the sound, carried.

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Mikyö's note, which moved it on

This is a little bit hurried… I’d like to bring back in this layer of aesthetic from the existing deck… I think we’ve gone a little too far in this floating compute direction… almost like a deity emerging from the compute interaction.

Then: maybe the ocean itself is composed of computation. Three distinct variants asked for.