User blog comment:Cookiefonster/Dramatic reading of Sbiis's April Fools Day article/@comment-5982810-20150930024759

I finally got to listen to the "dramatic reading" and I have to say it was quite a crack up. It's just so utterly ridiculous on so many levels. Nice job on enhancing the craziness with your rendition cf.

I actually listened to the whole thing from beginning to end with all the ERROR 404s. The entire "track" is some 69 minutes of which at least the last 49 are just ERROR 404s. The most interesting part of the experience was that I began to experience some strange auditory hallucinations from listening to the repeated phrase so many times. First I began to experience it as having a certain rythm to it and it turned into music. The phrase began to morph. One alternative interpretation of the phrase was "Get Earth World four". This eventually morphed into the even more bizarre "Fulart the earth world". At this point something really weird happened. It became impossible to hear it as "Error 404" anymore. I had no idea where "error" or "404" began or ended, or how they related to the phrase I was hearing. Some of the sound was lit. transformed into a kind of musical pulse. It no longer sounded the same and some of the sound cues I came to expect in the loop completely disappeared (the sharp sound of "error" had somehow been softened into a pulse). I swear the sound actually changed. In fact I was so convinced that I wasn't just imagining it that I tried to unhear it. But once it got started I couldn't turn it off. Finally in desparation I shook my head violently and that got me out of the trance. The "error 404" was back and it felt like quickly phasing out of a dream. After that it became easier to phase between the different phrases and different musical interpretations of the loop. I would drop out of the trance naturally returning to "error 404" and didn't get stuck anymore after that. It was a very interesting auditory experience. It suggests that musical experience is partially a subjective experience of where the mind puts emphasis, what is highlights and pays attention to, where it decides the loop "begins", and how it interprets words and notes. One kind of frustrating thing however is this means that recreation of an auditory experience is to some extent impossible. The way a composer and listener experience the same piece of music may not exactly be the same, and even when we listen to the same music on two different occasions we may actually have a slightly different subjective experience. In short, the experience made me hyper aware of the subjective element of perception, and it was trippy as fuck :P