Daniel Crawford of the University of Minnesota has created a piece which maps over a hundred years of temperature records to a piece for string quartet. The piece breaks the global temperature data into 4 regions and maps the average annual temperature for each region to the musical notes. This is a beautiful piece of
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Rondo Alla Turca is Still Hard to Play on Touch Pianist
Touch Pianist is another great HTML 5 Web Audio project, that allows you to play some favorite classical music pieces without having to worry about annoying minor little details like playing the right notes. The web app (and iOS app) responds to key presses or touch events to play the next note or chord in
Continue reading »Jukedeck Want to Generate Royalty-Free Music for your Videos
Jukedeck are a UK based startup which is composed (ahem) of software developers, musicians and producers, who have developed a way to automatically generate music to suit any project. Their target is video producers, such as Youtube artists, that need royalty-free music to use without the pain of trawling through royalty-free libraries searching for a
Continue reading »Tildemash – An Isolated Studio Track Mashup Generator
Andy Baio of waxy.org created this excellent random mashup generator using Isolated Studio Tracks from Youtube. It uses simple javascript to randomly select from a prepopulated array of Youtube url ids for each instrument (vocals, guitar, drums, keyboard) and fills the page with the embedded youtube video for those videos. Once the tracks start playing together wonderful (or not so wonderful)
Continue reading »Mix Master, Cut Faster – Risset Accelerando
I’ve posted before about Shepard tones and other audio illusions, but here is another one to wrap your head around. Jean-Claude Risset, who created the Shepard-Risset Glissando (a continuous version of the Shepard tones) also produced the rhythmical equivalent – a beat that appears to get faster and faster (and faster and faster). By layering
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