Musical performance
#whitney #death #throttledtweetstream
Adhocrasound Festival (Adelaide, Australia, 09-Jun-2012–11-Jun-2012)
2012
Abstract
Studies on Twitter measuring the impact of audience engagement around a social, cultural or political 'event' have chiefly employed quantitative data collection methods or qualitative evaluations of textual or visual content in posted tweets. '#whitney #death #throttledtweetstream' is a sound art response to the social media flood of postings on Twitter captured within hours of the announcement of the death of celebrity, Whitney Houston. Using the hashtags, #whitney and #death as search markers, only three minutes and forty seconds of the default notification sounds from the Tweetdeck application were able to be recorded before the application froze and an in-app message displayed, "Your tweetstream is being throttled". Attempts to re-boot the application failed due to the amount of user activity around this event on Twitter at the time. This work was selected for inclusion in the Adhocrasound 2012 program, a micro-survey of Australian experimental sound artists and presented within an installation context curated by sound artist, Jason Sweeney. Adhocrasound is a side project of the annual Adhocracy Festival in Adelaide, Australia presented by arts organisation, Vitalstatistix.
Details
- Title
- #whitney #death #throttledtweetstream
- Authors
- Kenneth Lyons (Author)
- Event details
- Adhocrasound Festival (Adelaide, Australia, 09-Jun-2012–11-Jun-2012)
- Format
- Sound; 3:40 minutes
- Date published
- 2012
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451112702621
- Output Type
- Musical performance
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