Used by various web-savvy punters to diary their nefarious activities, blogs (short for "web logs") are structured web-based documents, and are also used by organisations to provide news headlines, stock quotes, etc.
How can this become music? ... why even think of it this way? ... imagine a world-wide invisible collaboration sounding the vibrations of important events throughout the globe ... people of all backgrounds, companies of all sizes, major or local news ... the blog is the comment of instant significant expression in the personal or cultural or corporate life of bloggers or those who would be their influential masters ...
Like "conventional" music, blogs have structure on a macro scale (blog entries like movements in a sonata) and on a smaller scale (words like chords, or letters like individual notes).
Like "conventional" music, phrases repeat often with modification, expansion or truncation (same individual words, or updates to breaking news "flowing" east to west as the world wakes up), bloggers picking up on what they saw on tv and discussing for the next fortnight. Think "counterpoint", or "theme and variations".
Topics generate their own leitmotif.
Many blogs contain temporal elements such as publish dates for personal diary entries, news update times, etc. Events can be placed in sequence in a timeframe. Multiple sources can be combined, overlaid, mixed... RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a particular flavour of XML-based news blog which lends itself well to time-based processing.
Ebb and flow on a grand scale ... a long timeframe, which like the whale's song we can compress and make audible. I read blogs, I see music. Bloggers, authors, composers; all develop a style, some distinctive and instantly recognisable. This isn't "ambient". Bloggers are "active".
Music From The Blog is the buzz of the wired planet. It is the Music of the Psychosphere.
The music is created using MPEG 4 Structured Audio (MPEG4-SA) with SAOL and SASL, and a number of custom-built generator programs.