social media

Because it was there: Ableton Live 8 does Twitter, with a bit of help from Max for Live, MXJ and Jython.

“I sat and watched fifteen minutes of the Twitter public timeline while recording this video,” says Nick Rothwell, “and have now lost the will to live.”

Maybe if we could just use the Twitter stream to trigger events based on keywords in tweets……

Social Synthesizer is composition that translates the idea of synthesis to the world of Flickr, Skype and new media:

Social Synthesis is the audiovisual synthesis technique pioneered by Aetherbits that explores the aesthetic synergies emerging from the contemporary use of collaborative internet technologies. The result is a recombinant flux of sensory information aimed at holding a mirror to the collective unconscious as it emerges from the internet in the form of social software and user contributed content websites.

The core of the Social Synthesizer is a real-time score generation application based on concepts ranging from Swarm-Intelligence (SI), hash table mathematics, Database Theory and datamining techniques.

The Real-Time-Score-Generator is a technological mashup of custom built software that leverages digital audio synthesis with polyphonic video synthesis techniques to power an immersive yet sublime environment capable of inducing higher states of information awareness. Read more…

Prolific music hacker Brian Green is looking for benders and others interested in collaborative circuit bending projects:

Ive been throwing this idea around for a few days, I really like the idea of social colaberations so i decided i would like to start one with circuit benders.

The idea is im going to pick a toy and do something to it, and make 1-5 loops out of it using the mod made then i will then pick someone off the list and send it to them and they will do the same thing, so on and so on

Then after we have been through everyone on the list the unit will come back to me and im going to make a big loop pack using everyones loops made durning the process and some other ones ill make running the unit through different things. The loop pack will then be posted for download.

The reason the unit is coming back to me is so i can make a lot of one shots and just dig for sounds that were left out during the colab so that we can get every little sound out of it for the sample pack.

After the loops are up i would like everyone who had the unit to make a track for a compilation.

Sounds like it could be an interesting project. Contact Green via his site, if you are interested in participating.

Check out Green’s YouTube channel, too, for examples of his creative circuit bending and audio hacking.

This wired video looks at how Amon Tobin and the Sony Music team used found objects to create a dark and grimy video game score for Infamous.

Brian Green is creating generative music in Ableton Live using sounds shared on Twitter as source material, and is looking for other musical techies to connect with on Twitter:

What i did in the video is i took the amazing software by soundplusdesign and i made a sound, i then went to the soundplusdesign twitter and another person i follow Ojects and i used a sound from each of them, i then used my generative set up with ableton and put each of the three sounds into a chain and started to mix them up together.

I have to be honest i was recently thinking of deleting my twitter i realized how its really not that usefull to me but i thought before i get rid of it lets try this tweet a sound thing out and im glad i have it now.

THE PLAN: so this is what i want to do im going to keep making videos of this little project, but what i want you all to do even if you don’t make electronic music, even if you dont make any kind of music download this program and mess around with it post some tweets of what you make.

Basically i want to follow a bunch of people who do use this and keep messing around with sounds we all create and make little videos and tracks such as the one below. Follow me and post a link to your twitter in the comments section of this page if you are doing this i will also post a little list of people who are tweeting sound as well as i come across them.

Details on Tweet A Sound here.