amcewen
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8 years ago https://blog.arduino.cc/2016/02/17/macchina-poetica/ and http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016/02/irfs-weeknotes-number-213 might also give some ideas about auto-generated text. And I built (well, did some simple copying ;-) a "Horse Tweets" twitter markov bot called @policyomatic. That takes a load of manufacturing policy documents as its source text, and then spits out auto-generated samples. The original twitter-bot script that I stole is https://gist.github.com/koffeinfrei/a0ebc5c9295c067fe5ff
epsaul
helicalbytes
JackiePease
The stepper polargraph is (hopefully) going to be sat in one of the windows of the Music Room, so passers-by can see it.
It's probably going to draw poems, but we need to work out how that works.
There's been discussion so far about maybe writing some Markov-chain software, or something similar, that auto-generates text given some source examples.
That fits nicely with Adrian Henri's work like the New, Fast, Automatic Daffodils where he mashed up Wordsworth and car adverts.
If we could find a suitable source text for advertising copy, and similar for Adrian Henri and Wordsworth, then we could autogenerate modern equivalents...