scam spam

violin. electronics . videotext

A composition for violin, soundtrack and videotext.
Virtuoso violin playing, both real and faked underpin a video made up of spam mail texts . The piece moves at a fast pace through a myriad of elaborate scams, random spam poetry and 'phishing' emails that appeal to our greedier natures in trying to lure us to get something for nothing. There is a deliberate association to the fiddling devil in folklore trying to mesmerize us into an illicit exchange .
Bayesian Poison refers to the practice of adding random words to spam emails in order to bypass statistical word filters.