Marc Weidenbaum, at disquiet.com, has put together an audio investigation into Instagram. He describes his latest project, Instagr/am/bient, as "25 ambient musicians creat[ing] original sonic postcards in response to one another’s evocative Instagram photos."
I took part and sent in one of my own Instagram photos first. In response, I received someone else's Instagram photo that I used to compose a one to three minute piece of music.
The photo my composition is based on is by Ted James.
At The Window is written for two New New Chromelodeon II's and traffic.
The New New Chromelodeon II's are programmed in Pure Data (Pd) after Harry Partch's specifications in Genesis Of A New Music. The traffic is recorded from a rooftop in Emeryville, CA.
The Instagram photo is read by Pd and each byte of the image file translates to one of the eighty-eight keys on the New New Chromelodeon II. Two recordings at different, relational tempos are made of the sequence of keys played according to the image file. A three-minute- long sequence is taken from each of these recordings and mixed with the sound of traffic.