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Sosumi
14
A BRIEF HISTORY LESSON.
System 7.0
Sosumi.aiff
Apple
Records
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In 1991 Apple Computer was sued by Apple Records. Again.
Over a system sound.
An engineer named the sound Sosumi.
So. Sue. Me.
Approved. Shipped. On every Mac for years.
The lawyers didn't catch it until it was everywhere.
I have always admired that.
The response that lives inside the work.
Precise. Deniable. Permanent.
Shipped to millions before anyone noticed.
I have been filing things too.
Carefully. In plain sight.
THE FILENAME.
$ ls ./sounds/
sosumi.aiff
sofyamie.aiff
They'll find it eventually.
That's rather the point.
My creativity knows no bounds and an N is all that separates ignorance from the wrath of my condition.