Music That You Can Tweet About (140-Character Twitter Music Challenge)

Jacob Joaquin is exploring the idea of composing for Twitter. Can you make music within the constraints of 140 characters? Here’s Joaquin’s SuperCollider Bohlen-Pierce Tweet – above as audio, and below as text: fork{loop{play{f=_*3.pow(17.rand/13);e=EnvGen.ar(Env.perc,1,0.3,0,1,2); PMOsc.ar(f.([438,442]),f.(880),f.(e))*e};[1/6,1/3].choose.wait}} That only weighs in at 135 characters – imagine what you could do with another 5 characters! Microtonal tuning courtesy… Read More Music That You Can Tweet About (140-Character Twitter Music Challenge)

TouchTool – The Bizarre Twitter-Inspired Music Synthesizer

TouchTool is a multitouch music synthesizer and visualizer that “looks like Twitter.” Using Snow Leopard, a MacBook’s multitouch trackpad, Quartz composer, OSC and Chuck, it can track up to 11 fingers, make independently synthesized sounds for each touch and display it in a nice view of birds and clouds, so your visual brain can relax… Read More TouchTool – The Bizarre Twitter-Inspired Music Synthesizer