[spectre] babble

[geoff cox]

babble by Alex McLean
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/babble/

Babble is a system for authoring mechanistic sound poetry. It occupies a 
space between speech and music, allowing play with the structure and 
form of simplified phonetics. The visitor is encouraged to enter 
nonsense verse, which is then immediately played back as synthesised 
sound. Although babble's phonetic system is quite unlike that of any 
natural language, when faced with the text that generates the sound, the 
listener has the sensation of 'hearing' speech.

Babble is written in the open source HaXe language, which compiles to 
javascript and flash. The source code for babble is available under the 
GNU Public License version 3 or later.

Babble by Alex McLean is a project.arnolfini commission (produced for 
the exhibition 'Supertoys', http://www.supertoys.org/).
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/babble/
http://yaxu.org/

Alex McLean is a programmer and live coding musician. He is co-founder 
of the dorkbotlondon meetings on electronic art 
(http://dorkbotlondon.org), the TOPLAP organisation for the 
proliferation of live algorithm programming (http://toplap.org) and the 
runme software art repository (http://runme.org/).  He is also a PhD 
student at Goldsmiths College, within the Intelligent Sound and Music 
Systems group.