Listening Post is an artwork that visualizes Internet chatroom conversations.
[1] The work was created between 2002 and 2005 as a collaboration between the artist Ben Rubin and the statistician Mark Hansen.
[2][3] Listening Post uses custom computer programs to automatically collect thousands of chatroom and bulletin board conversations.
[7] A text-to speech synthesizer voices some of the phrases as part of the accompanying soundtrack.
[8] Writer Adam Gopnik described its soundtrack as "intoning words and sentences one by one in a sepulchral BBC announcer's voice or chanting and singing them in fugue-like overlay".