Hear The Web

My main idea for a project is an art piece /  museum installation that reflects data from the internet via audio. To do this simply I am breaking the audio up into to sections major (positive) and minor (negative). Inspiration for this comes primarily from This project. In it there is a table that changes colour depending on the tweets using the hashtag #ledtable. Obviously for this project a different hashtag would have to be used, for example #news or #today. Instead of changing lights I want this to play a different audio file (let's say for example from the key of A) if it is positive it plays a major note or negative it plays a minor note. In this way someone would be able to hear the overall mood of the web (I'm fearing a lot of minor notes in these times for news!).

However after some searches on Twitter.com for #today a more equal balance seems to be available. The way this project would work is that it reads a twitter feed and if there is more words from a positive array than a negative it would play a random major note from the key of A. This might not sound very pretty but imagine for example if some horrible disaster was to occur and most the posts would use 'dead', 'sorry' and 'pray for' then the music would take on a dark tone and music can be very emotive so the user would get an instant emotive response even before knowing why they are feeling better or worse. I think this is an interesting dynamic that has some real artistic and perhaps even social merit. 

Tony