Last call for Music Hack Day Boston - Nov 21-22

[Jon Pierce]

Music Hack Day Boston is now less than a week away!

http://boston.musichackday.org/

It's a hands-on event focused on bringing people together for a
weekend of making things with music and technology -- software,
electronics, art, etc. We're expecting 300 people and over 25 music
technology companies, including The Echo Nest, Last.fm, The Hype
Machine, Harmonix, SoundCloud, Amie Street, Indaba Music, Tourfilter,
MusicBrainz, Tapulous, Boxee, NPR, Yahoo! and many more.

In addition to hacking, Music Hack Day Boston will feature short
workshops on APIs and platforms, panel discussions with leading
industry thinkers, demos of the weekend's projects, and a concert on
Saturday night. Prizes will be awarded for the best hacks, and food,
drinks and Rock Band will be provided. See the site for more details.

Register soon if you intend to come, as space is limited and we will
reach capacity.

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Jon Pierce | j...@jonpierce.com | 617.501.2001 | http://twitter.com/jonpierce
http://jonpierce.com | http://betahouse.org | http://awesomefoundation.org

[Travis 'audiodude' Briggs]

Wow, I can't believe I just heard about this.

I'll be there with bells on.

Here's the idea that I put on the ideas page:

Twoopsaphone
A twitter bot that takes commands in MML (Music Macro Language),
determines a 1,2,4 or 8 bar cutoff, synthesizes the result using
Bloopsaphone and then plays it back, on a loop, on a streaming
internet radio station. People can add beats or new instrument
melodies, and they get added to the loop.

Here's hoping it gets more traction than MURD. O_o

-Travis

> Jon Pierce | j...@jonpierce.com | 617.501.2001 |http://twitter.com/jonpiercehttp://jonpierce.com|http://betahouse.org|http://awesomefoundation.org

[Travis 'audiodude' Briggs]

Okay well I definitely got more traction than MURD...I completed the
project this weekend!

Twoopsaphone
http://twitter.com/twoopsaphone

Listen to it here (.m3u streaming station):
http://tinyurl.com/twoops


Twoopsaphone is my project that takes Bloopsaphone track lines from
twitter (a la "@twoopsaphone PLAY c3 8c4 8c4 g3") and loops them,
together with the last 3 tracks thus recieved. I have a daemon program
written in Ruby that checks twitter for updates every 40 seconds and
if there are updates, it clears the bloopsaphone (which is looping in
another thread) and adds the last 4 tracks to it.

The whole thing is streamed to Nicecast <http://rogueamoeba.com/
nicecast/> via Soundflower <http://www.cycling74.com/downloads/
soundflower> and the result is that you can hear the audio result of
your commands in real time on the radio station above

If you have a twitter account, I encourage you to check it out.

I hacked the bloopsaphone source twice, once to calculate the duration
in beats of a track (Track.duration) and again to have it stream the
output to soundflower instead of the default output.

If you want to try it out, just tweet: @twoopsaphone PLAY c c g g a a
2g
That would be 'twinkle, twinkle little star'

Happy Twoopsing!

-Travis

On Nov 14, 10:26 pm, "Travis 'audiodude' Briggs" <audiod...@gmail.com>
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