November 20, 2009

Best of Twitter tunes album released

dn18173-1_300.jpg Musical twitterers have found a way to condense entire compositions to fit in single, 140-character tweets. New Scientist reports.

quotemarksright.jpgThe trend started earlier this year when Dan Stowell, a composer and computer scientist at Queen Mary, University of London, encoded the sound of waves crashing on the shore using the programming language SuperCollider and then tweeted the results.

Other users of the micro-blogging site responded by devising and posting their own compositions. Now a free to download, best-of album of 22 Twitter tunes has been released, entitled sc140.quotesmarksleft.jpg


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