Tuitifador is a program which is used to analyse audio coming from natural environments.
It divides the sound into three distinct categories:
1.- Pure nature_from 0 to 20 dB_
2.- Nature with human presence (hybrid environment)_ from 20 to 45 dB_
3.- Human participation_ fom 45 to 60 dB
This classification is done based on the decibels detected by the program in each environment.
The program then selects four words from the “tweet-dictionary”, which is the dictionary of
local words belonging to each environment, which represent the local, non-official culture.
Many of them are local vernacular forms, sometimes with no written equivalent form, and only known
in the small villages of the local area. See chart “tweet-dictionary”,
*This dictionary has been created by local artists.
The program generates a phrase with those four words and sends it to Twitter with
the hashtag #eufonic2012. This then pops up in the profile of the festival in which
this project was presented: Eufònic
Basically, it is the representation of the natural environment of the Delta de Ebro area,
as well as the local language and its transformation/adaptation to the Net language.
It is as if the natural environment was tweeting the language of its inhabitants – the expansion
of the local to the global, ending in Twitter.