Audio Library of a Viewable World

VIEW ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkrmEz14GzNNo_jmf_dmmzs-xiZfPVjji A series of website-specific YouTube videos which rethink YouTube's form, function and content as artistic language and interactive possibility by turning functions like subtitles, keyboard shortcuts, or livestreams into interactive aspects of the artwork. Each video is based on one category from YouTube's audio library, using that category as its only sound material. Since 2014, the audio library is a collection of copyright-free sounds that have been used and heard in millions of videos. It contains over 4000 sound effects that are ordered into 20 categories: Alarms, Ambiences, Animals, Cartoon, Crowds, Doors, Emergency, Foley, Horror, Household, Human voices, Impacts, Office, Science Fiction, Sport, Tools, Transport, Water, Weapons, Weather. These categories can be thought of as a taxonomy of YouTube’s video soundscape. The audio library is the canned yet uncanny soundtrack to the viewable world of online video. 'Audio Library of a Viewable World' rearranges the relations between the images, words, functions and sounds of YouTube.