“none of them are currently heard individually”
But they’re there, you can see them, and they ‘are’ individuals (they are separated by the frames of each original image that they were recorded within as separate entities). Yes, simply placing them on the same field turns them into a mass; but they still are a quilt of individuals.

I think that we’re coming into an ethical question here. How can you say its a “field recording in a crowded public space” when you have all of the specific url locations, names, and information about each person? You sure as hell don’t have that in a train station where you record people’s sounds and voices that they create unconciously. By not having that information, that is in a simple way what makes a site specific ambient recording so important; its anonimty. What you are doing is not the same. You know who these people are.

If you placed a name on the bottom of the image, it could become an addition to the structure of the work. You could place it in the id card; it would be enormous and a correllary example of the mass that you’re invoking with the video itself.

If I place my own ethics or morality into this discussion, I think that gathering other people without giving them a credit is disrespectful; would you like the same to be done to you?

This is a fascinating conversation.

That’s a good question — I don’t currently list exact sources because none of them are currently heard individually. It’s more taking a field recording in a crowded public space — it’s difficult to attribute words to individuals (which is kind of the point of this project for me). I suppose I could create a list of youtube ids / usernames or something. I definitely keep all of that information in a database. Since this version is still in process, I haven’t considered how that might be done … I’ll think on that. If you have any suggestions let me know … cb