The Lifehouse Method (2007 - 2008)

pete townshend wrote lifehouse in 1971 as a story about music generated from a person's own data, and the who could not build it because the machines did not exist yet. in april 2007 he put those machines on a website with the composer lawrence ball and the developer dave snowdon, and about 10,500 people sat for a musical portrait assembled out of what they typed in. it ran fifteen months. the…