This Music: Prohibited

Motivation

For my project, I was thinking of the recent news of Pakistan banning Youtube and Facebook because of conflict between the content of these websites and the main religion. This led me to think about the government's role in the everyday lives of its citizens. During WWII, the Nazi regime restricted Germans from listening to Western radio and therefore Western music. Similarly, Britain also limited its citizens' radio. Tito of former Yugoslavia also aimed to limit the type of music that people of his country listened to, such as rock music, although Yugoslavia's power over the everyday lives of their citizens was not as ubiquitous as other totalitarian governments.

Interactive Paradigm

With this concept, I wanted to have one input taking in song information somehow and the computer reacting in a way that either accepts or rejects the music. An example would be a clearly Western song that is "rejected" by Germany or Yugoslavia's government through an image.

Technical Description

I was thinking about perhaps having an input of a fake preset "radio" songs connecting through an Arduino to the computer in which the computer would display an accepting or rejecting image in reaction to the song that arises caused by the knobs on the fake radio. My arduino, however, might be broken, so I am still thinking of other ways of taking in input. I am researching if there's a way that I could utilize song recognition applications so that the user could sing or play something and the computer image would either reject it. The third method of input I am considering is taking in a Twitter RSS feed based on the a search with "concert" or "konzert" as the key word. I'm not sure what is feasible yet.

Functional Diagrams

user input -> my project through netbeans -> Youtube or -> Blocking Image

or

user input -> sphinx - 4 -> Blocking Image