yeah i already grabbed one of your stings ..i like the surprise of it. kinda like dialing a random phone number (keeping on the phone analogy)

sounds like fun

I think we should collaborate initially in the spirit of the tool itself by using each other’s tweeted numeric strings and generating those sounds using our own copies of Tweet-a-Sound. We can record those sounds on our own and feed them into the sequencer of our choice, like Ableton Live or Logic, and alter them however we wish. I don’t care how far out we go, really, but if you can think of other restrictions that would help foster creativity, please let me know and we can observe them.

The reason I think we should use our own copies is not only because it keeps with the idea of the tool, but also because I think there’s a bit of a telephone game going on with it. I’ve tried recreating sounds I’ve made by pasting in the numeric string, and while they come back the same most of the time, often they come back a bit wrong, but in an interesting way. I’m not sure if pasting a new string into the application clears all the previous settings of the synth. For example, say Sound 1 uses effects, but Sound 2 doesn’t, I think Sound 2 may play back using the effects of Sound 1 because it fails to clear what it doesn’t use itself. I’m not sure, but if there is any opportunity of introducing unintended mutations, I think we should exploit it.

Once we’ve recorded our own copies of each other’s sounds, we should send each other audio files of how we heard our own sounds originally. The differences will be interesting. Perhaps we should have both copies of each sound in hand before we begin sequencing. I quite like the idea of a piece in which the “original” sound (from the creator, as he intended it) plays off/against an accidental mutant sound.

how do you want to collaborate? i am now totally addicited to this thing!