Post #963332
2026-03-12 15:13 UTC
Four years of Russian internet censorship
turned into sound – project by Denis Yagodine
Eight of Russia's largest ISPs play simultaneously - each one a voice, each day a tenth of a second. Pitch follows the level of DPI filtering: the more traffic an ISP blocks, the higher it sounds. Notes are quantized to A minor pentatonic. The timbre shifts too - clean tones at law enforcement, harsh overtones at high. Sub-bass hits mark key dates: the
invasion, Instagram ban, mobilization, VPN crackdowns, YouTube throttling, mass mobile
Built from 1,493 days of per-ASN Cloudflare Radar TCP reset data (Feb 2022 - Mar 2026). Stereo, additive synthesis, 44.1 kHz. No samples, no loops - pure data.
https://soundcloud.com/denis-33470178/enforcement-8-isps-2022-2026
Replies (2)
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@wthinker@libranet.de 2026-03-12 16:00
@Xeniax Unusual. But song with text only from russian profanity (aka ''materschina") and bureaucratic language - and nothing any! - would be much more expressive.
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@iuvi@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 13:32
@Xeniax@mastodon.ml hi there! If there any app in delta chat that allows users to receive full-page screenshots of websites they enter in that "bot" and send them back to users over email/relay, so this could help avoid censorship ? Thanks