Nplay

An attempt at sonifying network traffic.

It works by either sniffing on the network interface or replaying a pcap file and encoding some features as OSC messages. These are then received by a Max patch and used to create generative sounds.

Usage:

1. Open the Max patch nplay.maxpat

2. Start nplay.py with python nplay.py (you should have first installed requirements.txt

3. Listen

You can use nplay.py either on your network card with nplay.py --interface en0 or from a pcap file: nplay.py --pcap traffic.pcap.

It's best that you also specificy your IP address with --my-ip so that it can generate different features if the network traffic is inbound or outbound.

You can also pass a --time-warp parameter so say if the traffic should be slowed down or sped up (ex. --time-warp 2 means 2x slower).