the sound of memory


The Listening Machine – a signal from the Zeitgeist
May 20, 2012, 8:18 pm
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http://www.thelisteningmachine.org/

This project is approaching some of the concepts being considered for The Sound of Memory.

In Summary, 500 unsuspecting twitter accounts are being monitored and the content is filtered, analysed and re interpreted into a musical stream, in real time.

This connection of social media behaviours and music deals with conversation and context rather than memory but the compositional technique is not dissimilar to what is proposed for TSOM. It is interesting to note the composer has “locked in” an orchestral palette, no doubt to facilitate the connection with Britten Sinfonia.

Nice to hear how the concept works.

more info: http://www.wired.com/underwire/tag/the-listening-machine/



Music from visual patterns
May 17, 2012, 2:30 pm
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http://tones.wolfram.com/

Appears to be a digital interpretive piano style system generating note data from patterns – perhaps some interesting principles to be looked at for the machine



Interpretive ‘Camera’
April 30, 2012, 9:07 pm
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http://www.gizmag.com/descriptive-camera/22345/

Interesting idea that explores the interpretive process of images – very much aligned to the part of the project that is looking into the media for meaning – also interesting that it requires and audience to ‘operate’

Now if it were code based that could be handy.



processing – a possible patform for the machine
April 5, 2012, 3:59 pm
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www.processing.org/

This looks potentially useful due to the large user base and resulting libraries. I’m not a hard core programmer so i am looking for platforms tools and modules that can be adapted, connected and utilised to form the technical biology of ‘the machine’.



mobile device media extraction

There will be numerous techniques for extracting the audiences digital memory, from the obvious facebook app style of share/dump, any other share subscriptions (flicker/twitter/vimeo/instagram streams) the individual members may participate in….. how many do I accomodate?  Further to this, how do I have an opt in extraction of raw media from the devices?

Here’s a few apps I need to look at how they do this:

iDownload

Anypush

This looks particularly interesting as it can facilitate a ‘many to one’ upload (to collect raw device media from the audience) or a ‘one to many’ narrowcast (to distribute the resulting artifact)

Is this too apple-centrict, yes but the code may be portable to android – is this needed though?



organising people vs time

There will be a lot of these posts throughout the project and I’m yet to determine the threshold for inclusion – but here’s a people/meeting organiser I’ll attempt to use to manage supervision pow wow’s…..

http://www.doodle.com/

Thanks Jeremy, let’s see if it works!