music is math
Have you ever found a song hidden among everyday sounds? Footsteps providing a beat, birds chirping in time, cars driving adding another layer? Happens to me all the time.
I’ve recently been getting into the strange and complicated world of synthesizers, and I’ve discovered a couple things. First, people in the synth community are smart. They’re the kids that killed the curve on your science project because they built a television from scratch or something. Second, everything is music.
If you can find music in the logfiles of a website, where else might it be hiding? And on that note, what else might be hiding where? Taking two seemingly disparate subjects and combining them through technology can produce some very interesting results. I think the culture of the web is conducive to this kind of thinking – exploring spaces in an increasingly technology-oriented way has yielded everything from logfile music to matching users based on music preference like last.fm. Where’s the program that generates a song from my Myspace profile?
