Noise or Music

An experiment by Bernard Zitzer · Berlin

Listen to your feed.

Every post is a note. A coherent feed makes music. An algorithm makes noise. Hear yours.

01 / THE ARCHIVE

Six feeds, already translated. Press one. Hear the difference.

02 / YOUR TURN

Want to find out what your feed sounds like? Three steps.

[01]

Start a screen recording. iPhone: Control Center. Android: Quick Settings.

[02]

Open your feed and scroll like you always do. 30 to 60 seconds is enough.

[03]

Stop the recording, come back here and drop the video below.

Drop a screen recording of you scrolling

30 to 60 seconds · MP4 / MOV / WebM · or 4+ screenshots

Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is stored.

04 / THE IDEA

Attention has a sound.

A book is one thought, carried across three hundred pages. A podcast is one conversation, held for an hour. Your feed is four hundred thoughts in sixty seconds, each one fighting the last one for your attention.

You already know this feeling. This machine makes it audible. Content that belongs together becomes melody. Content that whips you from joy to outrage to envy to fear becomes noise. Not as a metaphor. As a measurement.

05 / HOW IT WORKS

01

Record

You record yourself scrolling. The recording never leaves your device. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is stored.

02

Read

A vision model reads every moment. Not the pixels: the meaning. Topic, subject, mood. Each moment is also read emotionally, scored against calm, joy, envy, desire, outrage, fear, grief, irony.

03

Measure

Every moment is compared with the next. Related content and adjacent feelings measure as small steps. A cut from a birthday to a war zone measures as a leap.

04

Play

Steps become intervals. Small ones walk a scale, carried by chords and a bassline. A song can appear. Leaps break the key, the rhythm, the instrument. What remains is noise.