Uses tweets from Twitter's trending topics to create music using Max MSP
Originally created for my cycle 3 project for PAT 201 at the Univeristy of Michigan.
You will need to create a Twitter app and use the dev console to generate auth keys/tokens for your app. https://apps.twitter.com/
Next, create a file called secrets.py and add the following keys to the file:
CONSUMER_KEY = 'your'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'keys'
ACCESS_TOKEN = 'go'
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = 'here'Now you can run python songbird.py filename [keywords...] to generate the data file, formatted as a Max coll object.
For example, python songbird.py sick_bands.txt #SickBands would generate a file called sick_bands.txt with the corresponding MIDI data based on tweets from the "#SickBands" trending topic.
Max coll objects are formatted as follows:
index, value1 value2;
Internally, value1 and value2 are being scaled and used as pitch and velocity respectively.
Finally, run the Max patch to play music!