streaming music made with US Open tennis data

[Yaman Aksu]

Something I stumbled on a few minutes ago:

Right now the IBM website
http://ibm.com/usopen
is playing (electronic) music generated (in real-time I think) from tennis data at the ongoing US Open tournament.

Just to check it out for more than one minute, I might put it on as background music for a little while when I'm busy with something else like reading something.

It lets you pick some particular match and play the music for that.

The creators are talking about it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUkwbsd-NcA

[Yaman Aksu]

Sounds boring so far. I hadn't expected much different from what I'm hearing.

[Yaman Aksu]

They've now taken a boring piece like this one

https://soundcloud.com/ibm/match-104...-open-sessions

and used the info within it to create a "remix" (presumably with human intervention this time…) which is finally something that actually sounds interesting rather than a bunch of random sounds:

https://soundcloud.com/ibm/match-104...-open-sessions

Stumbled on that remix via stumbling on this blurb

https://myspace.com/article/2014/09/...open-sessions/

which is an essentially uninformative blurb about what exactly they did to create the remix version…But from the facts that

1) both a raw (boring) version and a remix version for a given match ("match 104") is at soundcloud separately and

2) they sound drastically different,

I'm attributing the non-boringness of the remix version to being the work of a human not the computer -- a good guess especially since the name of the remix even mentions a person's name (James Murphy).