TweetDreams: Making music with the audience and the world using real-time Twitter data

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Title	TweetDreams: Making music with the audience and the world using real-time Twitter data
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2011
Authors	Dahl, L., J. Herrera, and C. Wilkerson
Conference Name	International Conference on New Interfaces For Musical Expression
Date Published	05/2011
Conference Location	Oslo, Norway
Abstract	TweetDreams is an instrument and musical composition which creates real-time sonification and visualization of tweets. Tweet data containing specified search terms is retrieved from Twitter and used to build networks of associated tweets. These networks govern the creation of melodies associated with each tweet and are displayed graphically. Audience members participate in the piece by tweeting, and their tweets are given special musical and visual prominence.

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