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+title: "Us Listening to Machines Listening to Us"
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+# Us Listening to Machines Listening to Us
+
+A score and experiment for [Zoom](https://zoom.us/), by [Mattin](http://mattin.org/)
+
+Commissioned for and first performed at Machine Listening: Improvisation and Control, 13 March 2021
+{{< nosup >}}[Documentation]{{< /nosup >}}(https://youtu.be/EZvK8atIlnA?t=4033)
+
+Using a simple instructional score, I propose for my presentation to do a collective improvisation involving the audience using the audio settings of ZOOM. The idea will be to play with the
+algorithms that regulate AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancellation), AGC (Automatic Gain Control) and NS (Noise Suppression). By doing this we hopefully get more traction on the specific forms of mediation that involves sound within the reality of Zoom so prevalent these days.
+
+
+## Score
+
+This intervention will last 15 minutes in total and it requires your participation if you are willing to participate.
+
+You are invited to turn on your microphone
+
+You are invited to turn on your camera
+
+The administrator will add you as panelist
+
+If you are wearing headphones remove them
+
+Click on the Zoom microphone icon and make sure output is set to speaker
+
+Click on the audio settings
+
+Adjust your microphone input level and your speaker output level
+
+Increase them both until you feel you are on the verge of feedback,
+without actually feedbacking
+
+Unclick the setting - Automatically adjust microphone volume
+
+In the setting - Suppress background noise - change from low to medium to
+high to auto
+
+Improvise with the controls