Between October 2008 – January 2009, Jason Sweeney sought admissions and submissions from a willing public: recorded and/or written stories, sounds, noise, anecdotes, nightmares and confessionals about attempts at living a life online.

Some questions considered were:
When living a life on the internet, what kind of connections, good or bad or indifferent, do you make? Do you make real friends or imaginary ones? Do you make love online? Is there flesh contact or constant ether? Did you think you knew someone, only to find out a) they didn’t exist in the first place or b) were constantly telling lies? Do you feel more connected or more isolated when socialising on the inter-web?

This material was gathered as a kind of sonic library and developed into an audio-museum web + performance project called Faceless Music.

Part One of this project is entitled: Alone & Lonely. It is about building an anti-social networking environment, devoid of faces, emptied of visual stimulation.

PODCASTS/AUDIO DOWNLOADS @ http://www.faceless-music.net

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This project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Researched, composed and created as part of an Inter-arts Office Self-Initiated Residency at CIA Studios, Perth WA, Australia (November 2008 – January 2009).