Okay my local producers, start thinking out side the box when it comes to making beats or sounds for your music. The world’s first piece of music composed using information posted on the social networking site Twitter has been created. Weird!
The Twinthesis project used a computer programme to turn posts made by users on Twitter into sounds.
Each character was given its own distinctive tone, so as the computer read through each Tweet on the public feed, it produced a series of sounds.
The result is “symphony” of high pitched bleeps and deeper humming, which reveals the sound of Twitter.
Music technology student Sam Harman, from Bournemouth University, developed the system as part of his undergraduate degree.
The computer accesses the Twitter feed every 30 seconds and selects the top 20 tweets.
“The system slects one of the characters from the first 20 tweets at random and repeats it to produce a kind of rhythm,” explained Mr Harman.
“It can then go through the tweets a character at a time to produce a sort of melody.
“In time I hope we could get to the stage where it could pull data off Twitter at more than 100 times every second and this would produce a sort of global symphony.”
Mr Harman is due to “perform” on Saturday evening using his twitter synthesiser at an event at Bournemouth University to showcase experimental music using internet networks.
Source: Telegraph
