Ever wondered what music a library would make?

The Ghent University Book Tower is 20 stories tall + basements total of 24 floors. Each floor contains thousands of books which can be requested by our patrons. I mapped every book request to one note (floor level), and multiple book requests in a time interval to a chord. To find out how this composition would sound like, I was inspired by André Michelle's famous ToneMatrix. The applet below is a Processing implementation of the ToneMatrix. Feedback: patrick.hochstenbach@ugent.be

Version: 3
Alt take (guitar): Guitar version
See also: Version 2

Source code: libsound3 or at GitHub

Built with Processing