This executable software application was commissioned by publishers Ellipsis (London) for Laurie Anderson's Meltdown Festival, at the South Bank Centre, London in June 1997. The downloadable file (for Mac O/S and Windows) ran on a computer, searching through files until it reached one of the "256 most-used words in the English language" (and chosen by Anderson). On finding the word, the application played a corresponding recording of the word, spoken by Laurie Anderson. The application continued searching the entire file-structure of its host computer. In a small application-window, "bubbles" appeared containing each word, in its context; each "bubble" faded once the word had been spoken. (Programming by Colin Green of I/O/D.)

The Windows 95/NT version is available for download here.