Twinthesis - MaxMSP Synthesiser for sonification...

[greekperson0305]

Twitter sounds an awful lot like a Jetsons-era computer.

[metabog]

@greekperson0305 It sounds strange because it's designed for kind of conceptual performances and twitter data is pretty random if you 'sonify' it, so essentially it's exploiting randomness. It's fairly original idea, you should see it put to some graphics.

[loomislol]

Learn to use real code and write real audio software. C and C++ is the way forward. This is just random sine waves and doesn't sound really good. And get on linux.

[sammio2]

@loomislol For your information this is meant to be a sonification of

abstract data, it is random and thus inherently atonal, and it is not

meant to sound 'good'... While i'm here, for the record I also code in

C, C++, and Objective-C and have written several VST Plugins and DSP

based iPhone Applications. But I guess haters gotta hate :-)

[metabog]

@loomislol Max/MSP is a programming language the same as C++ or C, only it's graphical. You can do a lot of the same things in terms of sound. It's used in designing prototypes a lot and doing kind of experimental pieces.

[yuvalishes]

That was my idea too :( good thing I didn't start actually working on it. In any case it would be nice to here it in a more musical context in my opinion..but great work for doing this. Pioneer :)

[chrisottridge]

THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME

[metabog]

The twittering effect!

[EltonBear]

What in the hell is the point of this?

Very impressive, but surely useless.

[sammio2]

@EltonBear As John Cage once said, "No purposes. Sounds."

[EltonBear]

@sammio2 ah yes, but in the words of John Cage's biggest hit "..."

[SuperAudioVision]

@EltonBear please try not to criticise something which you do not understand. The purpose of this creation is to demonstrate new approaches to Creative Music Technology, clearly a field of which you are unfamiliar.

[EltonBear]

@SuperAudioVision hey, I'm not trying to cause any offence. As I said it is very impressive, but my familiarity lies in applying these technologies to musical productions - and as such I see limited application for Twinthesis.

[mainmandan1]

lol you're such a geek sam :P But all sounds very cool :D