I have created a piece to install at Falmouth AMATA that makes use of sonifying live feeds from the NASDAQ stock market.

The patch works by downloading RSS feeds from NASDAQ. Do do this I made use of the regular expression object to parse the RSS XML code into useable MAX messages. an example of the patches are included below.

To sonify the data I made use of a variating phasor~ twinned with the edge~ object as note timing for the the different MIDI notes. The stock price determines the note length, the %change in the stock price since market open determines the regularity of the note and the stock volume determines the pitch of the note (with number split average system I created).

In this example the notes generated are sonified through a 9 channel multitimbral synthesiser (Waldorf Blofeld).