The Republic of Nynex was created in response to a call for submissions to the 2010 Megapolis Festival in Baltimore. The name derives from NYNEX, the company formed by the merger of Baby Bells New England Telephone and New York Telephone. The Republic of Nynex as a fictional state could be thought of as the northern segment of the independent BosWash in some dystopian post-US future. Or, it could be something else.
The Republic of Nynex is written primarily in C++, taking advantage of numerous open source projects and web services.
GALib is an MIT-funded project implementing genetic algorithms, allowing developers to take advantage of genetic programming research without starting from scratch.
FS1rgen is another GAlib project now contained within the Republic of Nynex.
OpenFrameworks is a set of cross-platform libraries used to make the creation audiovisual interfaces extremely easy and straightforward.
PyGoogleVoice allows programmatic access to Google Voice.
RapidXML is a very lightweight DOM XML parser used by fs1rgen to parse the XML file describing the data layout of the Yamaha FS1r.
Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. They emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Republic of Nynex uses Boost's data structures in the FS1r module.
libsox is a library of sound sample file format readers/writers and sound effects processors. It is mainly developed for use by SoX but is useful for any sound application.
Blosxom is a lightweight, extremely customizable blog engine.
SoundCloud is a free audio hosting service with an API allowing integration with external applications. Dave Gamble has written a C wrapper for this API, using liboauth. The web voting page uses Eric Walhforss's SoundCloud Javascript player.
Twitter... well, you probably all know what Twitter is. Republic of Nynex uses Twitter to announce new generations.
liboauth is a software package implementing Twitter's OAuth API, used to connect to both SoundCloud.
From here, you can follow the software's development, read the progress blog, follow the project on Twitter, find out where in-person demonstrations will be occurring, join the announcement mailing list, listen to the project's creations on SoundCloud, become a Facebook fan, or see information on audio contributors. Soon, you will be able contribute your own audio recordings, listen to new compositions and rate them, listen to previous generations of compositions, and read about the Republic of Nynex's creator.
