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
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Hyper-Yakety-Lapse
Yesterday Instagram announced Hyperlapse, their new smoothed time-lapse app for iOS. This will inevitably lead to a proliferation of cool timelapse videos. So I thought it would be necessary for people to add Yakety-Sax (aka the Benny Hill Theme) to their timelapse videos. I’m not sure exactly if I’m proud of this but, I went
Continue reading »HTML5 Visualization of Steve Reich’s ‘Piano Phase’
HTML5 Visualization of ‘Piano Phase’. The different colored dots represent the two players.
The site was created by Alexander Chen, one of the creative directors at Google Creative Lab in New York (and the brains behind the famous Les Paul Google Doodle).
This site is based on the first section from Steve Reich’s 1967 piece Piano Phase. Two pianists repeat the same twelve note sequence, but one gradually speeds up. Here, the musical patterns are visualized by drawing two lines, one following each pianist.
(via @PLamere)
The Disintegrator – Random Project Idea Realized
A few days ago I posted this random idea to Twitter So naturally I went ahead and built a reasonable approximation using my new Web Audio API powers.
Continue reading »More Web Audio Goodness
I posted before about the HTML5 Theremin built using the Web Audio API. It’s a great implementation of the powerful features of the new Web Audio specs. There are many, many more great examples found in these github pages, including a great collection of synthesizer and visualizers and games (such as Angry Birds) that use
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