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James Murphy making music based on data from US Open tennis matches

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After dabbling in film and coffee, James Murphy has finally gotten back to making music. Sort of. Murphy has teamed up with some big brains at IBM to generate music based on game data from 2014 US Open matches which is happening as we speak out in Forest Hills, Queens. (Did they pick him for his fondness for wearing white?) The project, called The US Open Sessions, uses every point, ace and foot fault to create bleeps and bloops coming out of your speakers. (It’s very bleepy and bloopy.) Some 400 hours of it will be generated by the end of things on September 8. It’s being generated live, so if you’re watching on TV and want a soundtrack to it, here you go. The matches’ music is archived as well. For more on this,  a short video of how this all came about can be watched in this post.

In related news, we weren’t able to get James to sit on our City Gardens Q&A panel at AMC Loews Village 7 tonight (8/28), but we do hope he comes to watch the documentary about the club he once worked at as a bouncer.

US Open Sessions video below…

Making Music with Tennis Data