Audiophiles argue over the quality of various format, and the merits and faults of compressed formats all the time. MP3s have become the industry standard for audio compression. Most people can’t really tell the difference between an MP3 and a lossless audio file like a WAV file. Or perhaps they could hear the difference if they trained their ears to do so, but they just don’t care.
Ryan Maguire, a Ph.D. student in composition and commuter technologies at the University of Virginia took it upon himself to study the audio that is lost when compression a file into an MP3 format, and created a fascinating track he calls “Ghost in the MP3.”
moDernisT_v2 from Ryan Maguire on Vimeo.
Check out this Q&A with Maguire at the University of Virginia’s website.
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