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)
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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.
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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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Thursday’s post had a few simple examples of using the Web Audio API and HTML5 features to load sounds and process them. I got started with this following this excellent post ‘Getting Started with Web Audio API‘ along with another post I used to create the file input. Today’s post will explain some of the
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