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Illuminated Shroom © 2011
A tree fungus that measures the wind during the day and plays back the results on LEDs at night. The shroom is travelling to OKNO in May 2012 as part of the Time Inventors Kabinet.

Café ELF © 2012
A generative audio stream for Art's Birthday, January 14-20, 2012.

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absolute value of insomnia is now airing every week on Sunday from 2am to 6am. Tune in to CITR FM 101.9 in Vancouver or on the web at citr.ca. This show is mixed by generative software and features the sounds of AVN, Bill Mullan, and other contributing artists.

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Radiauteur #2 an online radio art magazine was released on February 26, 2012. The issue includes some old AVN works from the 90s ("A Trilogy").

The Silent Speaker © 2010
A new installation and audio CD. Based on ideas from the "Counter-Clock World" (1967) by Philip K. Dick. Showing at Deep Wireless May 27 - June 25, 2011.
Checkout the interview by Katie Kotler from NAISA's Sound as Art radio program, June 6, 2011.

Extremity Cassette © 2009
by Anna Friz and Absolute Value of Noise. A generative audio stream for Art's Birthday will be running on cassette tape for the Klang Canteen at Elysium Gallery in Swansea, January 14-28, 2012.

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Influenced by Merzbow, the Haters and other denizens of noise-art culture, absolute value of noise takes sound to the extreme. Originating as a radio-art program on CiTR FM, Vancouver (from 1988 to 1992), productions include radio-art, performance, installation, net-art and a variety of collaborative projects. The artist works with feedback, distortion, mechanical devices and hand-built instruments to create both intense collages and minimal sonic threads.