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I'm close to being a total beginner with Max/MSP, on Windows 7 32bit.

For a uni assignment (on visualisation and sonification of data) I'd like to have a live stream or scan of trending twitter tags/tweets which are fed into a Max patcher, ideally with certain words or types of words being used to manipulate a generative music patch, where perhaps words like "disaster", "explosion", or "attack" would result in an aggressive sonification and be a recognisable change to the ambient twitter chatter.

My final work could be a generative music app which is fed by a real-time stream of trending twitter hashtags, creating a sonification which acts as both an ambient and pleasant thing to listen to (like Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers "Bloom"), and also a practical tool for passively monitoring twitter for certain trends. If you had it playing in the background and heard a sudden spike of activity, you would know something interesting was happening on twitter (maybe specifically to do with the people you were following).

I realise this is extremely (almost hilariously) complex, but to start off with, does anyone have any suggestions for scanning a text file for certain words or phrases, and then outputting bangs (in real time)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XagCY5DfMgE

I'm close to being a total beginner with Max/MSP, on Windows 7 32bit. 

For a uni assignment (on visualisation and sonification of data) I'd like to have a live stream or scan of trending twitter tags/tweets which are fed into a Max patcher, ideally with certain words or types of words being used to manipulate a generative music patch, where perhaps words like "disaster", "explosion", or "attack" would result in an aggressive sonification and be a recognisable change to the ambient twitter chatter. 

for reference I found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XagCY5DfMgE

text-input-for-maxmsp

http://digitaltools.node3000.com/blog/812-maxmsp-tweet-a-sound-twitter

https://cycling74.com/tools/searchtweet-design-patches-that-respond-to-twitter-posts/

http://digitaltools.node3000.com/blog/812-maxmsp-tweet-a-sound-twitter 

https://cycling74.com/tools/searchtweet-design-patches-that-respond-to-twitter-posts/ 

The difficult part to do will be accessing Twitter from Max... You will probably need to use the mxj java object, the easy way would be to use jython or ruby:

https://github.com/cassiel/net.loadbang.jython

http://compusition.com/web/software/maxmsp/ajm-objects

The logic part would be easier to do there as well.

https://github.com/cassiel/net.loadbang.jython
http://compusition.com/web/software/maxmsp/ajm-objects

The logic part would be easier to do there as well.


Thanks all, I'll have a look at those, much appreciated

@nick I'd love to see that patcher or code if you could?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2546860/twitter.zip

If you use my Jython package you should be able to get some output from it. (I don't have the patcher to hand - it's buried in some Ableton Live set somewhere.) 

This code is a few years old - I have no idea whether it still works with the current Twitter API.

If you use my Jython package you should be able to get some output from it. (I don't have the patcher to hand  - it's buried in some Ableton Live set somewhere.) twitterReader is the thing you need to load.

This code is a few years old - I have no idea whether it still works with the current Twitter API.


I know you already discovered it but I am dropping a link to searchtweet here for future users.

Text input for MaxMSP?