What do you watch when you browse through YouTube? What are you exposed to in doing so? Personalized content? Relateable advertising? Trash? What remains of the sounds once you've finished watching or have clicked away? What of the memories?
This project attempts to address some these issues and create an informational and artistic experience that results from often passive media consumption that occurs (and is encouraged) on a site like YouTube.
To run, install the requirements within a venv:
pip install -r requirements.txt- Run
browser.pyto open a browser (Firefox or Chrome) and spend some time watching YouTube (or use it whenever you want to watch). Or justbrowser.py -m trendingfor trending videos,browser.py -s 'asmr'for a search term! - Run
play.py -l keytermto begin audio playback of the video collection.
Presented at soundpedro2024 CHARIVARI at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, California.