LONDON — Every so often, in cities across the world, a group of digital music professionals get together for a Hack Day, where they’ll cobble together hardware, software, and anything else they can get their hands on into innovative musical mashups.
London’s event
Justin Bieber might be diminutive in real life, but on the internet he’s massive — recent rumors suggest that a full three percent of Twitter’s infrastructure is dedicated solely to tweets from his prepubescent fanbase. Jameel Syed took the phenomenon of Bieber as inspiration to produce a track created from data about how the singer’s fans interact with him and each other on the web.
Sayed’s put the full details on a dedicated website, but essentially he took in data from MusicMetrics’ stats about Bieber, turned those numbers into note information using Python code, and then used Propellerheads Reason to generate the audio with a synthesiser. Comments made to the artist on social networks, track plays, fans added, and profile page views all contributed to the melody and bassline. The result? Have a listen for yourself.
Chris Lowis, Andrew Bruce, Yves Raimond and Patrick Sinclair built an Android app called “Piracy“, which combines geocaching and music discovery into an augmented reality treasure hunt. You can wander around and place tracks from the music library on your phone onto a Google map, which can then be seen and played back by people who are within 200 metres. Visit the website, and download the Android app.
Music recommendation services like Last.fm and Pandora induce a lot of “cognitive dissonance”, says Brian Whitman. So in protest he’s built one himself. Future of Music is an iTunes plug-in that scans your listening history and works out which bands you’re not supposed to listen to. Then it deletes them.
Whitman says: “If we rely on these computer programs to learn about music, well we might as well rely on them to fix the sins of our past and delete the crap we are obviously not meant to listen to anymore.”
Plenty of bands make a lot of noise about saving the environment, and then go off on a carbon-heavy touring schedule that crosses continents and oceans at whim. Built by Paul Lamere, Earth Destroyers lets you name and shame the worst offenders, calculating the carbon footprint of each show by cross-referencing their current tour dates with a Google map. Turns out that Nickelback are actually pretty energy-efficient. U2, on the other hand, are not.
Authors: Duncan Geere
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