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The U.S. Open is underway, and dedicated tennis fans will be hanging on every ace, double fault, and down-the-line volley. What if they could follow all of those parts of a match ... as a piece of music?
Now they can. Music producer James Murphy - best known as the frontman for LCD Soundsystem - has partnered with IBM on a very cool project, creating music based data points from matches at the U.S. Open.
Any match at the U.S. Open encompasses millions of points of data: aces tallied, forehand winners, break-point conversion percentages, and more. With the help of IBM Cloud services, Murphy and IBM experts used a custom musical algorithm that interprets these various data points into music, all in real time.
A new track will be produced for most of the men's and women's singles matches. Watching with a digital soundboard, Murphy will incorporate factors such as wind, humidity, and other variables so that every match has its own unique digital footprint. He'll remix 14 of those tracks into shorter, composed "songs" and compile them as a full album.
Fans can access "The U.S. Open Sessions" in several different ways through IBM's mobile-optimized site. They can stream the music during matches on their phones, listen to archived tracks from past matches, watch behind-the-scenes videos of how the music is created, or even visit an on-site listening booth if they're lucky enough to be there in person.
The site will also host a visualizer so fans can actually see and interact with the data that is generating the music.
It's a groundbreaking use of IBM cloud technology and reinvention of music, inspired by one of the biggest sports events of the year.
Learn more about IBM's "U.S. Open Sessions" collaboration with James Murphy.
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