Pop sketch
Jake Elliott has figured that he can transform pop songs into information graphics by translating the auditory information into something visual algorithmically. After an extensive survey of music, perhaps this might be telling as to what a hit looks like. Maybe someone should try taking these drawings and translating them back into sound, maybe something gets lost, or even added in translation.
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Hi, I'm Raj Patel. Nice to meet you. I'm a writer, photographer, film producer, avid reader, gamer, architect, programmer, artist, community manager, and general nerd.
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john cage talked a bit about this sort of thing- he did a piece for carillon based on astronomical charts. i will give this a more-than-cursory glance in the next couple of days and probably say something more about this. thanks again, monsieur rajio.
(thinking about: how this differs from traditional music notation. cage, crumb, and penderecki. how this differs the itunes feature that creates visuals in response to songs being played. various other questions on structure, function, reverse engineering, blah blah blah…)