Hi, On 01.04.2014 15:24, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > I suppose I could translate it into ascii and then use that. I vaguely > recall that someone has written an ascii to audio tool. Use exiftool, as described in one of the links, I have provided. The Debian package is called libimage-exiftool-perl. Running exiftool -a -u -g1 <filename> outputs 4kB of text. >> Here's an example, that uses the returned data from a search, including >> a description on the algorithm to generate the sound: >> https://soundcloud.com/residuum/twitter-sonification >> > > It's an interesting piece. Quite soothing in it's own way. Did you select > specific instruments/noises or did you let it automate that process too? Have you read the description for the piece? It is described quite clearly: | This is not musically interesting, but only showing a way to sonify | data, tweets are processed and sonified in the following way: | - content is splitted into ASCII values, and each value creates a | sound of 1/10 s length. | - non-printable characters make a pause, all others are mapped to the | respective MIDI value (! = 1, " = 2, ... A = 33, B = 34, etc.), and | then used to drive a sine oscillator | - the longer the username, the louder the sound. > Do you have others in that style? No, not really. I have made a tool for sonifying stock markets and bitcoin market prices, but nothing fancy and only varying small parameters: http://www.residuum.org/moneytalks.html https://github.com/residuum/Money-Talks https://github.com/residuum/PuRestJson/tree/master/examples Hth, Thomas -- "Chaney was aware that anything, however small, can get the eye of the media if it's repulsive enough." (Robert Anton Wilson - The Universe Next Door) http://www.residuum.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
