...Fell Down on My Knees...

From the venerable eyebeam reblog, a unique project called "Crossroads" as covered at turbulance.org.

In this project music is generated from the colours of cars which meet on the crossroad. As cars pass by they create impulses which carry the basic informations equal to music like tone and interval, rhytm, structure. This information is used as the source code for the music composition created in realtime.

I did something like this a few months back with Processing -- a single cam that made music in midi, in realtime, with notation on screen for the result, based upon the presence and movement of the color red (like me sitting in front of the camera and eating pizza).

I then tweaked it to read the color yellow, hoped to base it off taxi traffic going down 5th avenue. I found my cable was too short, and that was the end of that project. (boy, of all the half-ass excuses to abandon a project)

Posted by juechi at January 5, 2005 11:18 AM