Data Visualization is the new #000000
Monday, 26 September 2005
The Shape Of Song
The act of transmutating abstract data into Art seems to be an increasing trend and pastime for many computational artists.
Graz in Realtime is a digital derive that harnesses the potential of mobile phones allowing the city to be sensed and displayed in real-time as a complex contour schematic. The Real-Time City Map will register and visually render the volume and geographic source of cell phone usage in Graz, thus showing a different layer in the use and experience of the city.
Popsketches are a series of generative doodles where simple child-like scribbles are processed from pop songs. A python script analyses the audio and drops note and volume info into a text file. Proce55ing then does the drawing by interpreting the data. The angle at which the line is drawn is determined by the pitch of the note and the length of the line is determined by the volume of the note.
Related: The Shape of Song has been around for a while, here custom software draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see the shape of any musical composition.
