Ambient Text Mashup of Modest Mouse

Processing is amazing. I can’t say enough good things about an open source intuitive language built to allow *everyone* easy access to a wide array of tools and resources made for developing visual programs and interactive fun.

This weekend I took part in Music Hack Day at the Microsoft Startup Labs in Cambridge and built an audio/visual mashup of a few different libraries from Processing and music from the EchoNest.  My boyfriend James helped a lot with the coding and though he had not created anything in Processing before, his knowledge of Java made it a cinch.

The visual loads the lyrics of the song and makes repeating words larger. The title and chorus words of the song throb to the beat of the music while turning red.  The one we did was a demo but it could be modified to any song and have it be an interesting way to take in the artist’s message as well as listening to the melody.  Oh yeah and we won an iPod Nano for it! Pretty good weekend all around.

Here’s an image taken from the visual and a link to the applet.