I want to share a Sound Art Installation project named BTCSND~ that I designed in 2016 for the Twelfth Edition of the "International Festival of Music and New Technologies - Visiones Sonoras (Sound Visions)" in Mexico.
BTCSND~ is the translation of a digital economic model into a musical sound medium, it uses data flow of the bitcoin network, such as: transactions, price fluctuations, blocks info and other crypto data. All this is used to generate a multichannel sound installation, where the user gets immersed in a surround environment generated by the data flow.
It consists of codes that obtain and analyze the cryptocurrency data, then the data travels via a local network to a Pure Data patch were the data determines the acoustic, musical and spatial properties of a sound palette previously developed in the studio. The volatile price of bitcoin plays a fundamental role since it's conditions the possible tonal intervals of each transaction that is happening, generating an atmosphere with a mood depending on: a low : ( , a high : ) or a stability in the price :|
BTCSND~ | Pure Data Patch
BTCSND~ Bitcoin Network Sonification ProcessBinaural Sample 20/09/2016 - 12:35am
https://soundcloud.com/btcsnd/btcsnd-binaural-sampleAs a recommendation try to listen to the sample with headphones or in good speakers. Hope everyone likes it!
