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Translating Literature into Music


Generating Music from the 2016 Debates

The debates were increasingly hard to watch, and I thought it'd be interesting to see if I could 'hear' the emotional tone of the respective candidates during each one. Below are the results. All of these were created with one algorithm - no modification between them.

Debate #1

Clinton

Highest Emotions (in order): trust, anticipation, fear, joy
Baseline Octave: 6
Tempo: 140
Key: C Major



Trump

Highest Emotions (in order): trust, anticipation, sadness, fear
Baseline Octave: 5
Tempo: 50
Key: C Minor



Debate #2

Clinton

Highest Emotions (in order): trust, anticipation, joy, sadness
Baseline Octave: 6
Tempo: 110
Key: C Major



Trump

Highest Emotions (in order): trust, anger, fear, anticipation
Baseline Octave: 4
Tempo: 46
Key: C Minor

Debate #3

Clinton

Highest Emotions (in order): trust, fear, anticipation, joy
Baseline Octave: 6
Tempo: 123
Key: C Major



Trump

Highest Emotions (in order): anger, trust, fear, anticipation
Baseline Octave: 4
Tempo: 45
Key: C Minor




The audio clips were uploaded with the help of SoundCloud and embedded on this page.  The graphs above are generated by SoundCloud as part of the embedding; they are not relevant to the emotions of the novel.