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Route sixty kicks. “the best chain letter you’ve ever heard” -inventor crazy brains. Related Work. http://operabyyou.wreckamovie.com/operabyyou Wreakamovie’s Opera By You 2010
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Route sixty kicks “the best chain letter you’ve ever heard” -inventor crazy brains
Related Work http://operabyyou.wreckamovie.com/operabyyou Wreakamovie’s Opera By You 2010 http://burn-studios.audiotool.com free online audio tool synced with a social network (soundcloud linked)so people can post their work under creative commons license. Other users are explicitly encouraged to remix tracks. http://heapsong1.imogenheap.com/ the title track on the latest Imogen Heap album, lifeline was composed of sounds sent in by fans.
Technical Specs • Implemented Ruby on Rails • Utilizes SoX (Sound Exchange) for audio processing • Uses ffmpeg for video/audio muxing and transcoding
Paradigm of emergence(Sawyer) • Level E: Social Structure • Musical composition / sole vs. collaborative authorship • Level D: Stable Emergents • The crowd accepted narrative and some cues as stable • Level C: Ephemeral Emergents • The project itself created a mash-up cultural space • Level B: Interaction • Emerging in subsequent generations • Level A: Individual • Sound agents. Audio agents. Musicians. Engineers. Baristas. Burmese metal guitarists. Lao monks. Zoologists. You.
By Participants (1-9) • Enjoyment of task • Enjoyment of task sharing • Likelihood to participate in a 2nd generation Survey Results Other Observations • Level of audio expertise (self-reported) not correlated to enjoyment or to willingness to participate in further generations • Most rated the difficulty of task as moderate, except for one self-proclaimed audio expert
Participant Motivations • interest in audio: 3 • Interest in collaborative composition: 3 • Fun: 3 • Peer pressure: 3 • Interest in interactive systems: 2 • Sense of completion: 2
Trends in sound • Approaches to participating: • 3 of 4 first generations used sound files almost as-is. • 2nd generation in general kept sounds from 1st generation intact but added filters/effects, speed changes • Most used layering of sounds
Trends in soundSimilarities • Some limited evidence of stability • Transition to dream sequence saw a tendency to use 2 clips (Burmese Vibes and/or Japanese Shamisen) • This occurred in 3 first generations and both second generations • Airship sequence saw both Whale Song and JapanaseShamisen • This occurred in 2 first generations and 1 second generation • Waking sequence saw tendency to use Sungsang band clip • 2 first generations and 2 second generations • Use of the burning rocket in dream sequence as a sound event trigger.
Future • Research questions: • How do constraints effect the experience and outcomes? • How do visual cues impact what sounds people choose? What other trends would there be? • In what ways does each generation differ (approaches)? • Can you predict what the next generation will do? • Is there a point where the original becomes unrecognizable? Would this cause social conflicts? • How does access to tools impact the fairness/evaluation of the process? How could we motivate to use our tool? Would this help the project, and if so, how? • How do get people to forward/share to others? • Would others beyond our circle of acquaintances find it compelling enough to participate? • Next steps… • Questions?