music-from-weather-around-the-world

Stack

• Python flask backend serves web dashboard
• Web dashboard calls Google Maps API to allow users to easily pick locations and explore street view
• Web dashboard calls OpenWeather API to fetch historical weather data
• Web dashboard pipes weather data into the python backend
• Python concurantly parses weather data and sends all the weather measures pertaining to each day on each beat via OSC protocol
• MAX Patch listens for OSC messages and generates music to represent the weather

Installation

1. Clone repo or dowload zip file

git clone https://github.com/levshuster/music-from-weather-around-the-world.git

2. Start the server

navigate to the directory and run the following commands

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 index.py localhost 5000

3. Open the web dashboard by going to http://localhost:5000 in a web browser.

• Ensure the IP address box matches your devices IP. If necacary update value to match
• Set tempo, start date, and end date

4. Open Max

• Install CNMAT externals from the MAX Package Manager then restart Max
• Open LEVANDHUGH_WEATHERSONIFICATION.maxpat
• Update the port number if necacary

5. Click on the map to fetch historical weather data and pipe it into our autmosphere generator.

• Explore contrasting climate regions
• What for oboe to stop playing before selecting the next location to avoid syncopation
• Both listen and visually explore a locaiton with street view
• Try different times of years or similar times across different years

Code Exerpts From

• Google Maps API Documentation
• ChatGPT/Git-Copilot
• Carleton College CS251 starter code written by Jeff Ondich

Roalty Free Atmospheric Sound From

• videvo.net
• freesfx.co.uk