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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/trafficsound.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/trafficsound.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66872e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/trafficsound.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Ever wanted to compose avant-garde music by browsing the web? Me neither, but now you can thanks to a really fun little app by the name of [Sound of Traffic][1]. + +Sound of Traffic is a lightweight Java program that converts TCP/IP header information into midi notes via the Java Synthesizer. Ostensibly the the purpose is to listen in on network traffic, as the website puts it, "in ordered time, via a tempo, rather than realtime, which could be more chaotic." + +Sound of Traffic is fairly sophisticated in its setup, you can assign particular instruments to a particular port, which allows you a fairly fine grained control over the output. + +The results are not unlike some of the compositions on the [Early Gurus of Electronic Music][2] compilation that came out a few years back. Alternately annoying and eerily musical, Sound of Traffic's appeal will probably depend somewhat on whether or not you're a fan of experimental music. + +I found that playing William Basinski's Disintegration Loops in the background and browsing through Flickr with Sound of Traffic turned on produced some great sounds and textures. I'd be curious to see what at DOS attack sounds like, but I don't have a home server to launch one against. + +While not particularly useful, Sound of Traffic is definitely the most fun I've had with an application in some time. Here's a [sample audio file][3] with William Basinski's Disintegration loop in the background, with the exception of the pulsing background sound, everything is TCP/IP traffic as rendered by Sound Of Traffic. + +Sound of Traffic is available for Mac, Windows and *nix. + +[1]: http://www.smokinggun.com/projects/soundoftraffic/ "Sound of Traffic" + +[2]: http://www.furious.com/PERFECT/ohm/ "OHM- The Early Gurus of Electronic Music" |