"No matter where you go, everyone's connected."

This site is dedicated for my love of the webpage ⌈ Wired Sound For Wired People ⌋
It's a very unique site which I see as an artwork. I've always been intersted in the unexpected, weird and unknown which this website absolutely represents! As an artist and aspiring website designer I look up to Faux's website creation! I also gave a try to make my own glitch art (which you can see bellow). It was super hard to create since you have to edit every single frame seperately. But it was fun!

Faux was partly inspired by another obscure game-like website Terminal 00 whose creator is Angus Nicneven.

One of his other inspirations is the anime series "social experiments Lain", which is not for the faint of heart.
Synopsis (trigger warning: mentions of suicide):Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide. Lain has neither the desire nor the experience to handle even basic technology; yet, when the technophobe opens the email, it leads her straight into the Wired, a virtual world of communication networks similar to what we know as the internet. Lain's life is turned upside down as she begins to encounter cryptic mysteries one after another. Strange men called the Men in Black begin to appear wherever she goes, asking her questions and somehow knowing more about her than even she herself knows. With the boundaries between reality and cyberspace rapidly blurring, Lain is plunged into more surreal and bizarre events where identity, consciousness, and perception are concepts that take on new meanings.

I wouldn't recommend people to watch this show whose perception of reality can shift easily.

Here's an interesting article on ⌈ Wired Sound For Wired People ⌋:

One of the things that has been lost in the modern internet is the individualized, independent website. In the late 90s into the early 2000s, internet traffic was split between a myriad of different sites, from forums to Geocities pages. These highly specific, individualized websites provided a place for small communities to gather around their specific interests. Today, an overwhelming amount of web traffic goes to just a few sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Rather than making our own community forums and our own websites, we make Facebook groups or make Tumblr blogs. There are definitely benefits to this system, but overall, it lacks the uniqueness and capacity for creativity that making your own website from scratch does. Some creators still go out of their way to make something great, and 「ＷｉｒｅｄＳｏｕｎｄ」is a shining example of ways that good artists can do when the use the web to its fullest extent.

The Wired Sound homepage (「ＷｉｒｅｄＳｏｕｎｄ」, 2013)

Wired Sound was created in 2013 by a person known as fauux. The site is in many ways a fansite for the anime series Serial Experiments Lain, a surreal cyberpunk anime from 1998. The title of the website is a reference to The Wired, the show’s version of the internet. Lain was a show that explored themes of human consciousness and our relationship to technology in the digital age. One way of reading the website is that it attempts to depict what it would be like to browse The Wired. The site’s limited color palette is reminiscent of an old computer terminal, with art that makes heavy use of dithering effects. Upon entering the site, you are greeted by the Apple computer text-to-speech voice Whisper, saying “w i r e d s o u n d f o r w i r e d p e o p l e” (this voice was used in the show to announce the title of each episode). The site is chock-full of bizarre gifs, music, and other fascinating things to find.

A part of the website’s “help section” (「ＷｉｒｅｄＳｏｕｎｄ」, 2013)

Wired Sound is also an extremely cryptic website. One of the buttons on the homepage prompts you to “go visible” which greets you with a GIF of Lain, the main character of the show, against a backdrop of text saying “LET’S ALL LOVE LAIN”. The “about me” page is a huge string of cryptic prose. The page does have a section for logging in, but no discernible way to find a username or password, or to create one for that matter. This is all part of the fun of the website, and gives you the sense that you are stepping into a place that is unlike anything else on earth. Recently, fauux has been branching out from producing art based on Serial Experiments Lain into general glitch art. This is a natural step for the site, and a lot of the art that they produce is extremely fascinating. Most of the time, links can be found to new art and pages for the website on their twitter page. Overall, Wired Sound is a great website chock-full of fun things to explore, and I would encourage any cyberpunk fan to give it a look. I look forward to seeing what new art fauux produces in the future.

Writer: Sean
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