About 13 years ago John Oswald gave us his masterwork of audio collage, Plexure, which wove together minute fragments of the greatest hits of the previous 10 years into a brilliant sound tapestry. Now you almost get to do the same thing in a few moment with your own music collection, at least whatever portion of it you keep in iTunes, thanx to Jason Freeman's iTunes Signature Maker. The Java program asks you a few configuration questions like how many songs you want to include and how big the fragments should be, and then crunches away for a few minutes to give you a little clip that is a brief collage of the songs you've been listening to.
Here's an example: http://detritus.net/steev/mp3s/steev-audio-sig.mp3
One really nice feature of the program is that after it builds the signature, you can look at the "structure" of it. for the example above, we have:
Title
Artist
Album
Starting At
Ending At
Modest Mouse - 3rd planet
0:06.4
0:08.0
Human (Calexico Vocal Mix)
Goldfrapp
Felt Mountain
0:38.0
0:39.2
Senhor F
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
2:07.4
2:08.6
Peligro
Mano Negra
Best Of Mano Negra
2:40.4
2:41.5
Woe
Tom Waits
Blood Money
1:15.9
1:17.3
Modest Mouse - gravity rides everything
0:15.6
0:17.3
Pez
Cafe Tacuba
Re
0:02.6
0:04.0
Modest Mouse - I Came As A Rat
1:37.7
1:39.4
Galang
M.I.A.
Arular
0:11.7
0:13.2
Himno Zapatista
Flor Del Fango
Flor Del Fango
2:45.7
2:47.7
Calexico - The Black Light
Calexico
1:37.0
1:38.9
Modest Mouse - Alone Down There
0:48.0
0:49.0
Modest Mouse - Paper Thin Walls
2:45.7
2:47.5
Lima
Entre Rios
Completo
2:15.6
2:17.7
La Faraona
Pérez Prado
Havana 3 A.M.
0:42.9
0:44.8
Lagrimas de Oro
Manu Chao
Clandestino: Esperando La Ultima Ola...
1:20.2
1:23.2
(thanx rabble)
Posted by steev at December 14, 2005 03:28 PM