The project Error 502 404 410 is a generative sound installation based on the phenomenon of server errors. Rarely noticed when they occur, these technical failures are accompanied by sounds.

The discrete work of hard disk appliances becomes both an example of “reverse engineering” and an attempt at translation between media. The obscure realm of data noise is revealed and given an aesthetic frame by the artist’s scientific approach.

As the disks rotate in an endless loop of self-reference, the recursion is not always regular because it is disturbed by the randomness factor.

The sound gets amplified by an equalizer, pronouncing the rhythmical pattern of read action and the disk spinning. The boot routine creates a composition of random length and rhythm, that is always slightly different, depending on how and where on the spinning disk the read / write head gets distracted by the laser etched letters. While the disk is powered down and isn‚t spinning, the text becomes readable by the audience.