Re: [microsound] traffic analysis

[Alex Young <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wouldn't this make a good microsound project?  It reminds me of the 
RNDTXT project a little bit.

I thought it would be nice to make a piece of software or patch that 
used traffic data to act like a digital wind chime, although I think 
something similar exists somewhere.

Here's some related links:

http://ping.wrocenter.pl/
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~cc/



On 2 Feb 2005, at 19:24, Kim Cascone wrote:
> > just wondering if anyone has used network traffic, sniffed tcp/ip,=20
> > as a music source. I have traffic from a room full of servers flowing
> > through my screen and would like to implement this somehow into a=20
> > music project.=20
> >
> > capturing and parsing the traffic is easy, and I've thought about
> > assigning a different "instrument" for dumps from each server or 
> > client,
> > and allow the aesthetic elements to then be determined by the
> > variations...=20
> > perhaps the volume of traffic, or even the type (for smtp traffic, 
> > use a
> > certain sound, for dns use something else.) it could be wonderful with
> > just percussion sounds alone.=20
>
> this is a particularly interesting suggestion as I'm currently working 
> on a sound installation that uses data gathered from web services and 
> used in a Max patch...
> q's:
> - what are you using for packet sniffing? tcpdump, snort, etc?
> - what format is this data stored in? xml, mySQL, spreadsheet 
> (tab/space delimited text) etc?
> - can you put some of this data on the hotline server for me to look 
> at?
> :)
> KIM

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