Algorithmic Political-Media-Mashup Vodcast

flexatone writes "Composer Christopher Ariza, author of the first algorithmic, computer-generated podcast, announces the next phase of his experimental political-media-mashup project: the babelcast-zoetrope. The babelcast-zoetrope employs the subscription model of the vodcast (RSS feed, iTMS subscription) to deliver timely multi-media artifacts of the contemporary media landscape. Generated with free, open-source software tools (such as athenaCL, Python, Csound, and ffmpeg), babelcast-zoetrope is an experimental, algorithmic, computer-generated video podcast. Sounds and images of U.S. and World leaders and commentators are algorithmically fragmented, distorted, and recombined into a media tapestry. New episodes are defined by a time period: audio and video sequences are constructed only with materials collected during this period, lasting from days to weeks."

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[MattGWU]

This must be what it feels like to be some kind of highly-specialized form of weenie. The buzzwords, children, the buzzwords!

Also, in the interest of full disclosure, what is submitter's relationship to the website, other than having the same username as the domain name?

And you're right, it's a cut and paste of the 'article' that lasted about a minute and a half on k5.

Re:One more time?

[Valdrax]

I think that they've managed to attempt to create an automated version of the works of Joshua Pearson [joshualpearson.com] better known as one of the founders of Emergency Broadcast Network [wikipedia.org].

I doubt that it's as good as the hand-crafted originals, though, if I'm getting what they're trying. I'd have to look at it when I got home to confirm it.

Incidentally, look up EBN and Joshua Pearson sometime. It's worth the search if you can find the clips he made after he left the group from footage of 2000 Presidential debates and campaign. "The Internet" is great. For sheer creepy trippiness, I also recommend "Comply" from the EBN archive on his site.