[Rumori] Detritus Update: Your Own Private Plexure

[steev@detritus.net]

((((((((((((((( Detritus Update: Your Own Private Plexure )))))))))))))))

                           December 14, 2005


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http://detritus.net/blog/archives/000522.html



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About 13 years ago John Oswald gave us his masterwork of audio collage,
Plexure, which wove together minute fragments of the greatest hits of
the previous 10 years into a brilliant sound tapestry. Now you almost
get to do the same thing in a few moment with your own music
collection, at least whatever portion of it you keep in iTunes, thanx
to Jason Freeman's <a title=""
href="http://www.jasonfreeman.net/itsm/">iTunes Signature Maker</a>. 
The Java program asks you a few configuration questions like how many
songs you want to include and how big the fragments should be, and then
crunches away for a few minutes to give you a little clip that is a
brief collage of the songs you've been listening to.

Here's an example: <a
href="http://detritus.net/steev/mp3s/steev-audio-sig.mp3">http://detrit
us.net/steev/mp3s/steev-audio-sig.mp3</a>
One really nice feature of the program is that after  it builds the
signature, you can look at the "structure" of it. for the example
above, we have:

<font size=-1>
Title
Artist
Album
Starting At
Ending At
 
Modest Mouse - 3rd planet
0:06.4
0:08.0
 
Human (Calexico Vocal Mix)
Goldfrapp
Felt Mountain
0:38.0
0:39.2
 
Senhor F
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
2:07.4
2:08.6
 
Peligro
Mano Negra
Best Of Mano Negra
2:40.4
2:41.5
 
Woe
Tom Waits
Blood Money
1:15.9
1:17.3
 
Modest Mouse - gravity rides everything
0:15.6
0:17.3
 
Pez
Cafe Tacuba
Re
0:02.6
0:04.0
 
Modest Mouse - I Came As A Rat
1:37.7
1:39.4
 
Galang
M.I.A.
Arular
0:11.7
0:13.2
 
Himno Zapatista
Flor Del Fango
Flor Del Fango
2:45.7
2:47.7
 
Calexico - The Black Light
Calexico
1:37.0
1:38.9
 
Modest Mouse - Alone Down There
0:48.0
0:49.0
 
Modest Mouse - Paper Thin Walls
2:45.7
2:47.5
 
Lima
Entre Rios
Completo
2:15.6
2:17.7
 
La Faraona
Pérez Prado
Havana 3 A.M.
0:42.9
0:44.8
 
Lagrimas de Oro
Manu Chao
Clandestino: Esperando La Ultima Ola...
1:20.2
1:23.2
</font>

(thanx <a href="http://anarchogeek.com">rabble</a>)

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