TweetDreams : Making Music with the Audience and the World using Real-time Twitter Data

Luke Dahl, Jorge Herrera, and Carr Wilkerson

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

  • Year: 2011
  • Location: Oslo, Norway
  • Pages: 272–275
  • Keywords: Twitter, audience participation, sonification, data visualization, text processing, interaction, multi-user instrument.
  • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177991 (Link to paper)
  • PDF link

Abstract:

TweetDreams is an instrument and musical compositionwhich creates real-time sonification and visualization oftweets. Tweet data containing specified search terms is retrieved from Twitter and used to build networks of associated tweets. These networks govern the creation of melodiesassociated with each tweet and are displayed graphically.Audience members participate in the piece by tweeting,and their tweets are given special musical and visual prominence.

Citation:

Luke Dahl, Jorge Herrera, and Carr Wilkerson. 2011. TweetDreams : Making Music with the Audience and the World using Real-time Twitter Data. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177991

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Dahl2011,
 abstract = {TweetDreams is an instrument and musical compositionwhich creates real-time sonification and visualization oftweets. Tweet data containing specified search terms is retrieved from Twitter and used to build networks of associated tweets. These networks govern the creation of melodiesassociated with each tweet and are displayed graphically.Audience members participate in the piece by tweeting,and their tweets are given special musical and visual prominence.},
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Dahl, Luke and Herrera, Jorge and Wilkerson, Carr},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177991},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Twitter, audience participation, sonification, data visualization, text processing, interaction, multi-user instrument. },
 pages = {272--275},
 title = {TweetDreams : Making Music with the Audience and the World using Real-time Twitter Data},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_272.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}