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Peace Project
Flash map world map. Blue lines on white background. Ambient sounds. MouseOver country. MouseClick on country expands “Peace” in that countries language and alphabet. Second click display pronounciation. Fun part of project would be collecting all the translations.
MIDI - Flash
Create a framework where detailed data from a MIDI stream can be assigned to graphic elements in a visualization. So, each note, velocity, duration, etc. is accessible to the visualization. This would primarily be useful for “live” electronic music performances. I believe this level of detail could create some especially wonderful audio-video mappings.
No doubt some software, or set of softwares, has this functionality (I’d be interested to hear which). So, to do something different, I plan to code the framework so that MIDI events are accessible from Flash MX animations.
In order for Flash to receive MIDI data, in Flash I would use the XMLSocket interface. This is the only way to receive an external stream.
So, I’d code a small .exe proxy, to receive MIDI In (configurable and filterable), and send a lightweight XML stream to a socket. Depending on efficiency of Flash, the XML could be little more than , or it could break the MIDI down into its parts.
Within Flash, there would be a component to register callbacks to classes of MIDI events. These callbacks could then manipulate some part of the animation.
midi -> xml -> flash stream -> flash animation
parameters, callbacks of animation assignable to midi events
Accessing XML feeds
Want to access XML feeds across domains but don’t know how? Jarle Dahl Bergersen has a great article on his site which shows you how to use do it using redirects with versions for PHP, ASP, Perl, JSP and Python and also links to Mike Chambers method for doing the same in Server Side Actionscript. I think he’s got most bases covered 
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