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The other day I thought it would be fun to use real-world semi-random data to serve as triggers for audio events. I also wanted to learn Python. So what I did was I wrote a little program that matches regex’s against the logs of mint.com (the company I work for). Different log statements (caused by user actions) trigger certain sounds. Since all the sounds are all in the same scale, the random user events on the site are creating music…So if you’re using mint.com, you’re helping me write music! Here’s a video explaining what I did:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYdHYA5gvOE

Down the line, I want to try and integrate this with Quartz Composer to get some killer visualizations going.

If you’re interested in looking at my code or contributing, check it out here http://code.google.com/p/auralla/. I’d really like for other people to run with my idea and do some cooler stuff with it, too….

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