Algorithmic Political-Media-Mashup Vodcast

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 27, 2006 @04:28AM from the w-meets-chirac dept.

flexatone writes "Composer Christopher Ariza, author of the first algorithmic, computer-generated podcast, announces the next phase of his experimental political-media-mashup project: the babelcast-zoetrope. The babelcast-zoetrope employs the subscription model of the vodcast (RSS feed, iTMS subscription) to deliver timely multi-media artifacts of the contemporary media landscape. Generated with free, open-source software tools (such as athenaCL, Python, Csound, and ffmpeg), babelcast-zoetrope is an experimental, algorithmic, computer-generated video podcast. Sounds and images of U.S. and World leaders and commentators are algorithmically fragmented, distorted, and recombined into a media tapestry. New episodes are defined by a time period: audio and video sequences are constructed only with materials collected during this period, lasting from days to weeks."

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Humans still do it better by Tackhead · 2006-03-27 04:48 · Score: 2, Informative

Not bad.
But wake me when it beats Evolution Control Committee's divinely-inspired Rocked By Rape (4.1 megabytes, MP3)
Spam by RedHatLinux · 2006-03-27 05:13 · Score: 3, Informative

How did this blatant story spam get posted here? Geez, Kuro5hin just finished shooting this down too, which makes it even worse that it got posted here.