jpbellona

#CarbonFeed directly challenges the popular notion that virtuality is disconnected from reality. Through sonifying Twitter feeds and correlating individual tweets with a physical, data visualization in public spaces, the work allows viewers to see and hear the environmental cost of online behavior and its supportive physical infrastructure.

#CarbonFeed works by taking in realtime tweets from Twitter users around the world. Based on a customizable set of hashtags, the work listens for specific tweets. The content of these incoming tweets generates a realtime sonic composition. An installation-based visual counterpart of compressed air being pumped through tubes of water further provides a physical manifestation of each tweet.

Tweets are parsed via node.js, which then sends OSC messages to both Max/MSP for electronic sound synthesis and Processing for controlling the release of compressed air. Max/MSP uses information about the tweet to dynamically generate each sound.

Tweets release air bubbles and electronic sounds that allow viewers to see and hear the environmental cost of online behavior and its supportive physical infrastructure.

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