Tender Buttons | Sound | Space

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A live system maps lines of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons to web searches and fetches samples to build an improvised soundscape: a recording of the poem runs as a backbone while two performers feed excerpts through a chat interface that triggers Playsound.space participatory player queries and pulls Freesound.org Creative Commons content. The toolchain actively retrieves and layers found sounds in real time, producing continuous musical improvisation that successfully responds to the text.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Stein
2. 0:21Reading Tender Buttons
3. 3:35Exploring sound and space
4. 10:02Questions and connections
5. 17:11Change and organization
6. 20:07Final reflections and Q&A

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