Due at the beginning of session 08.
The digital cut-up revisited. In assignment #2, the tools available to you for cutting up and rearranging texts relied only on information present in the character data itself. Since then, we’ve learned several methods for incorporating outside information concerning syntax (i.e. with spaCy) and semantics (i.e., word vectors) into what we “know” about a text in question. Adapt your original digital cut-up assignment, making use of one of these new sources of information. What new aesthetic possibilities are made available if the unit of the cut-up can be a type of syntactic unit (instead of words, lines, characters), and if stretches of text can be algorithmically selected not at random, but based on their meaning?
For this assignment I built off of all 3 past assignments to create a cutup tool for songwriting that outputs a song. As a part of this I also created a fictional band name generator for the song using Tracery. The below examples are from using parts of the following texts from Project Gutenberg:
GIST code with more notes
Song outputs:
Furrow by The Elsewhere Upholds
Key: Gb major
Lyrics:
Verse 1:
Concentrated hours
full thing
Stored the early morning hours
active power
Chorus:
Furrow
Verse 2:
Lower the early morning hours
soft organs
Following the morning
same modifications
Chorus:
Furrow
Verse 3:
Sing early in the day
same weeks
Return nine o'clock
such voices
Chorus:
Furrow
Stradella by The Boldly Called
Key: E minor
Lyrics:
Verse 1:
Developed one hour
previous royalties
Cavities the evening
exaggerated sound
Chorus:
Stradella
Verse 2:
Make who night
elastic form
Smiling ten or twelve hours
such appoggiatura
Chorus:
Stradella
Verse 3:
Have the morning
such power
Accomplish hours
Many paragraph
Chorus:
Stradella
Cinderella by The Faintly Did
Key: D minor
Lyrics:
Verse 1:
Die hours
rich dismay
Come evening
respected donations
Chorus:
Cinderella
Verse 2:
Drink fifty minutes
dead absence
Wrought hours
Laestrygonian PROJECT
Chorus:
Cinderella
Verse 3:
Kill fifty minutes
solemn armour
Astonished one hour
warm ends
Chorus:
Cinderella
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Ulysses by The Faintly Did
Key: C major
Lyrics:
Verse 1:
Hear night
own mankind
Given night
redoubtable business
Chorus:
Ulysses
Verse 2:
Do afternoon
good year
Think the tenth night
wet account
Chorus:
Ulysses
Verse 3:
Resist night
gleaming states
Questioning tomorrow morning
glad side
Chorus:
Ulysses
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