 data transformation > sonification five projects in this subcategory SineClock by Douglas Irving Repetto SineClock is an ambient sound installation for the desktop. It uses slight differences in the frequencies of sinewaves to aurally encode the time of day. [ go to project page ] MPF by imbecil MPF (stands for MPeg Fucker) is a small shell script that does just what the name says: it fucks MP3 audio files. And what's more, it does so by using a silly but effective process: it converts the MP3 file into text, messes the text file, and then it switches it back to MP3, with the obvious audio transformation. There are two versions, with slightly different output. [...] [ go to project page ] iTunes Signature Maker by Jason Freeman iTunes Signature Maker analyzes your iTunes music collection to create a short sonic signature representing who you are and what you listen to. Once you open the software inside of your web browser and set a few parameters, iTSM will combine data tracked by Apple's iTunes software with its own spectral audio analysis routines, selecting small segments of audio from your favorite songs and [...] [ go to project page ] CodeSounding by Roberto Mannai CodeSounding is a java sonification library: the sound produced running a .class (or .jar) is a function of how was structured its source code before compilation. You can therefore produce computer-generated music. [ go to project page ] Code Organ by DLKW Reminiscent of some projects by software artists ca. 2005, Code Organ is getting mass exposure in 2010 via Twitter. Interesting example of software art ideas trickling out into the mainstream. [ go to project page ] |