It was 1975 when Lou Reed astonished the music’s world introducing his famous Metal Machine Music, an experiment that still today shocks for its contemporaneity. That (double) recording was based on a bunch of guitar amplifiers, with gain and reverb settled to up to the higher levels, wired and looped together. In this way, turning on the first amplifier, would have been generated a feedback transmitted from ampli to ampli in an infinite loop of feedback.

I’ve translated this insane idea in a social media way, creating some social accounts (one Twitter account and a FriendFeed one) that will interact between them to the eternity sending an rss each other. Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, is a poem written by Gertrude Stein. When all of us will be dead, the loop will continue to keep alive this digital mantra of the rose, maybe it will be the last witness of life on Earth.

You can see a bit of irony in this: actually blogs and social media are often used for republishing the feed of the feed of the feed, original contents are really few and the “human filtering” is quickly loosing its role.

How it works: just create a Twitter account and a FriendFeed account, then configure FriendFeed in order to import the Twitter rss, and use Twitterfeed to import the FriendFeed rss into Twitter. Create a first message (example: a rose is) and let the loop make its job.