Getting Started:

1. Wait until N.A.G. connects to the network. (Be patient, this may take a little bit of time.) Once you are connected, a search box will appear towards the top of the window (under the "Search" tab).

2. Type a search keyword into that search box. While any search keyword is possible, start out with a term that is likely to match a large number of songs. For example, "Beethoven" or "Louie Louie" or "love" would be good choices, while "pointwise periodic homeomorphisms" or the name of that garage band you played with in high school would be less good.

3. That's it! N.A.G. will automatically start downloading and playing the results of your search query. For explanations of all of the controls and displays in the program, please refer to the "user controls" section.

About N.A.G.:

N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella) is interactive software art for Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP which turns the process of searching for and downloading MP3 files into a chaotic musical collage. Type in one or more search keywords, and N.A.G. looks for matches on the Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing network. The software then downloads MP3 files which match the search keyword(s) and remixes these audio files in real time based on the structure of the Gnutella network itself.