A musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book “digital harmony”
Digital Harmony: http://teaching.thesystemis.com/algo11/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/TheProblem_HowShallMotionPatternTime.pdf
A musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book “digital harmony”
Digital Harmony: http://teaching.thesystemis.com/algo11/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/TheProblem_HowShallMotionPatternTime.pdf
Simple command line web server for Mac OS
Run this command, in a terminal window, from any directory:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
Then you can access web pages in that directory tree. For example, to load a page called index.html (in the same directory) type the following URL into a browser:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/index.html
More information here: http://lifehacker.com/start-a-simple-web-server-from-any-directory-on-your-ma-496425450
Filters
We usually think of filters in terms of frequency. Any process that removes information is a filter. Curation or abstraction, for example.
Interview by Darwin Grosse at Art + Music + Technology
http://artmusictech.libsyn.com/podcast-054-keith-mcmillen
The sound of Wikipedia’s recent-changes feed.
By Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi
Sonification of Mass Ave buses, from Harvard to Dudley.
This patch sends requests to the MBTA developer portal to get the current location of buses – using the Max js object. Latitude and Longitude data is mapped to oscillator pitch. Data is polled every 10 seconds, but it seems like the results might be more interesting to poll at a slower rate, because the updates don’t seem that frequent. And buses tend to stop a lot.
MBTA developer portal: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=17511
Here is the get request URL used in the patch:
http://realtime.mbta.com/developer/api/v2/vehiclesbyroute?api_key=wX9NwuHnZU2ToO7GmGR9uw&route=01&format=json
https://github.com/tkzic/internet-sensors
folder: mbta
patches:
You will not need authentication to run run this patch. It uses the default developer API-key for testing. Please read the terms of service at the MBTA developer portal. Data should not be polled more often than 10 seconds. You can also request your own developer API key from MBTA.
Note: there will be more buses running during rush hours in Boston. Try experimenting with the polling rate and ramp length in the poly-oscillator patch. Also, you can experiment with the pitch range.
data-stream-switch.maxpat
Letter based Markov text generator.
By Keith Enevoldsen at Think Zone
Music from data
We looked at Vine API Examples from Eli and Steve H.
Using an Osc server to handle Internet API’s
Searchtweet (rate limited): https://reactivemusic.net/?p=17425
Max oggz streaming example: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=17504
We talked about cartoons: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=10091
We didn’t talk about alarm fatigue…
(parameter mapping sonification)
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=17524
Is it possible to generate music from data?
Boston transportation API
http://realtime.mbta.com/Portal/Home/Documents
Curl example – predictions by stop – Back Bay Station:
curl "http://realtime.mbta.com/developer/api/v2/predictionsbystop?api_key=wX9NwuHnZU2ToO7GmGR9uw&stop=place-bbsta&format=json"