Works
and Sites
NEW F8MW9
by Jim Andrews & margareta waterman (Canada,
USA)
The audio jumps around
a voiced/sung recording by margareta waterman and reveals her visual "glyphs" in
the process.
Configure the maximum duration of the samples and click on the waveform
or "glyphs" to make it play/show that part. Conceptual+experience.
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NEW FLOU
by Jason Freeman (USA)
Flou is not exactly a game; you fly a
ship through space but you can't shoot things, score points, or
win/lose. The focus is on the soundtrack: you navigate
a 3D world and add loops
and apply effects to an ever-evolving musical mix.
JAVA
NEW AUDIO
SEARCH ENGINES
by various
These tools support searching the net for audio: audio-search.us ,
starfinder (library
of congress) , findsounds.com .
CLIENT-SERVER MIX
NEW NEONLIGHT
by Macoto Yanagisawa (Japan)
Move the mouse
to trigger the sound, and click to go to the next piece. East meets
west! Also, if you go back to work, leave this piece open; moving your
mouse triggers sounds, so you get a new work environment.
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PIXEL
BY PIXEL
by Frédéric Durieu, Jean-Jacques Birgé,
and Kristine Malden (France)
The visuals are simple, excllent, and you exercise subtle but audible
influence on the music as you move the mouse and occassionally click.
The relation between the audio and the visual is subtle and intriguing.
Also, as audio (de) composition, this is rich. More on Durieu and Birgé (2003
profiles).
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PIANOGRAPHIQUE
by Jean-Luc Lamarque (France)
Keyboard and mouse controlled aural/visual interactivity. This project
has been ongoing for several years; a new piece is added at least once
a year. More on
Lamarque (2003 profile).
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PIANOLINA
by David Krause, Volker Bertelmann, Fons Hickmann,
and Simon Gallus (Germany)
From the Grotrian piano company. Piano notes
are represented by coloured squares that you drag and drop into
a sound space affected by gravity. Similar to Balldroppings but different. "If
the sequencer has become the paradigm for interpreting reality via
its organization of flows of homogeneous information through a continuous
scan, then the Pianolina, generator of random encounters between notes,
is a good metaphor for entropy." (Valentina Culatti from neural.it)
FLASH
PÂTE À SON
by Frédéric Durieu and Jean-Jacques
Birgé (France)
Click the "?" symbol at bottom right so that "Help bubbles" appear
when you mouseEnter controls. Pixel by Pixel highlights and exposes
the mechanisms that determine the audio composition. A different type
of music than Pixel by Pixel. Also check out Time by
Durieu and Birgé.
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JASONFREEMAN.NET
by Jason Freeman (USA)
Several innovative pieces including Graph
Theory.
VARIOUS
ALTZERO
by Squid Soup (Britain)
Squid Soup's altzero project consists of eight Shockwave works
of "navigable
spatial music" and a downloadable editor where you can make your
own. In most pieces, you use the arrow keys and mouse
to navigate 3D spaces; where you go determines the audio.
The audio is original and highly atmospheric, goes well with the unusual
visual environments.
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THESQUAREROOTOF-1
by James Tindall (Britain)
thesquarerootof-1 is an online audio-visual interactive 'album'. Modifyme is
also worth a look, and there's work on Tindall's atomless.com he's
done for Fat Boy Slim etc.
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RE-MOVE
by Lia (Austria)
Many of the RE-MOVE pieces involve strong interactive audio, strong
in its audio, visuals, and interactivity.
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GRANULAR
by Chris Savage (UK)
Type something in and a sound is retrieved that relates to your query. Granular does
something interesting with the retrieved sound. "Granular
Synthesis creates new sounds from 'grains' of other sounds often as
short as 10ms. The grains get reorganised (often offsetting the pitch)
and the result is unpredictable, evolving sounds with vague characteristics
of the original." Also check out his site Japanese
Freeware.
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VISMU
by Jim Andrews (Canada)
Assorted works.
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PANDORA
by Tim Westergren, Tom Conrad, Nolan Gasser... (USA)
Fascinating approach to Internet radio. You create a channel by specifying
a song or artist. Pandora then starts playing songs related to your
seed. Each song is classified according to the 'music genome project'.
Your 'thumbs up/thumbs down' on suggested songs apparently 'train'
the app. A similar project is called last.fm. Unfortunately,
as of 2007, their license disallows them from serving anyone outside
the USA.
FLASH
NANOENSEMBLES
by Antoine Schmitt (France)
Also check out Venus and
his projects page. More on
Schmitt (2003 profile).
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SERVOVALVE
by Servovalve (France)
The music is, as he says, "electronic, rhythmic, energic, atmospheric,
horologic (clock connected), meta-lithurgic... subambient... neurodance" and
the visuals, set in the black background, derive their energy not at
all from ornament but from their motion with the music and their programming-controlled
transformations and movement. More on
Servovalve (2003 profile)
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NETART.ORG.UY
by Brian Mackern (Uruguay)
Brian Mackern has created many "sound toys". Look for that
term on his homepage and click those links. Also, there are many links
to the work of others on
Brian's site.
FLASH
GLASS
ENGINE
by Phillip Glass and IBM (USA)
Navigate the music of Phillip Glass by work, year, length, joy, sorrow,
intensity, density, and velocity.
JAVA
LA
COLONIE
by Alexandre Gherban (France)
"Our preoccupation is to define a particular field
of study based on the hypothesis that underlying the artistic universe
are connections as highly ordered as those found in life, although
much less obvious. First starting from a "common trunk"—artificial
life—it is then a question of separating the "colony" from any
simplistic simulation of life, of exploring all the possibilities of
an aesthetic universe that coincides with no preexisting model. To
envisage aesthetically specific situations in which the materials (the
programming) create forms and situations artistically relevant within
a consistent and constantly renewed digital framework. A "colony," therefore,
which takes as its starting point elementary living situations (as
posited by artificial life) to go toward an artistic zone specifically
defined by the digital universe: in other words, toward observable
transitory forms." See also the other works on Gherban's
site.
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WORKS
FROM ARTZERO.NET
by Vera Sylvia Bighetti (Brazil)
Made to
(Un)Order is a suite of 6 interactive audio pieces. A mixture of
the tuneful and the electronic. Also check out Fulfill
Fullness.
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ACTIONIST
RESPOKE
by Michael Janoschek and Rüdiger Schlömer, Mouse on Mars (Germany)
"Here
is something between a Sequencer and Sound Tamagotchi. Put some learning
effort into it, don't let visuals irritate you and most of all, don't
be lazy. This is not about just sitting back and having music served
on a tablet." The music is funky and so is the interface. MAX
on acid.
FLASH
SPLICE
by S. Mulroney, W. Davis (USA)
Sequencer for mixing your own sounds or sounds uploaded
by people in the Splice community. A similar project is called JamGlue.
FLASH
LOOPTRACKS
by Conor O'Boyle (Ireland)
What is striking here is the interactive interface. O'Boyle describes
it as "an interactive music video". Part of the
idea of many interactive audio works for the Web is to try to do something
alternative to the music video. Though of course there are also other
fish to fry in interactive audio, such as innovative music.
FLASH
FOLK
SONG FOR THE FIVE POINTS
by David Gunn, Alastair Dant, Tom Davis, Victor
Gama (USA)
"Folk Songs for the Five Points is a celebration of cultural diversity
and change, using “folk songs” as a metaphor to explore
immigration and the formation of identity in New York’s Lower
East Side." Click and drag the circles. Most interactive audio
pieces focus on exploring audio/music and interface. The exploration
here is more of geography and culture. Also check out a later piece, Manchester:
Peripheral, which treats Manchester in related ways. "Manchester:
Peripheral" is the second in what is planned as a series of "SoundMaps" for
cities across the world.
FLASH
SOUND GARDEN
by babel & binnorie (Cdn & USA)
Gently mouse over this piece for layers of animated flowers and layers
of vocals by binnorie. also check out "strAngel" for another collaboration
between babel & binnorie.
FLASH
PALL
THAYER
Pall Thayer (Iceland)
Pall Thayer creates work with Pure Data and other net-based audio and
programming tech.
VARIOUS
MOBIL_IZING
by Delirious Lazyness — Giselle Beiguelman,
Marcus Bastos, Rafael Marchetti (Brazil)
mobil_izing is a webdjaying system based on an open multi-user database
for online sampling. All content—images, sounds, texts, films
and audio— portray traffic and flux situations. It is fed by
its users and promotes a collective remix process in real time on the
web and in exhibition spaces.
FLASH/PHP
SOUNDTOYS.NET
curated by Stanza (Britain)
An ongoing anthology of interactive sound works and a collection of
writings on sound. See also a profile
of Stanza.
VARIOUS
STICKY
SOUND ELASTIC STRUCTURE
by Santiago Ortiz (Colombia)
Charming 3D geometrical sonic animism. Also see Ortiz's other interactive
sonic works.
FLASH
SODACONDUCTOR
by David Muth (audio prog), Ed Burton & Soda
(UK)
The popular SodaConstructor by Ed Burton & Soda, where you construct
nodal critters, includes a beta with interactive sound by David Muth.
A different version of the sonified piece is here.
JSYN (JAVA)
STUDIO
TONNE
by Paul Farrington (England)
Paul Farrington has done interactive Flash work for Depeche Mode, Moby,
Scanner, and various other bands and labels.
FLASH
ARCANGEL
CONSTANTINI
by A. Constantini & Alvaro Ruiz (Mexico)
Also check out his bakteria.org.
FLASH
SOUND
POEMS
by Jörg Piringer (Austria)
Interactive automata sound poems.
FLASH
PET_00
by S. Yuill and Laura Baxter (Scottland)
"PET_00 compositions are made from three types of basic elements:
particles, attractors and triggers. Particles have audio samples linked
to them. They move across the screen and when they cross a trigger
area the sound is played. The movement of the particles can be influenced
by the attractors." Mouseover the bottom of the window for a menu.
The thing of interest here is the constructive/generative interface
whereby you construct from "particles, attractors and triggers".
FLASH
DARWINSTRUMENTS
by Jeremy Thorp (Canada)
"Better sound through evolution." You listen to sounds, pick two you
like, and then click the "Hybridize" button. The app then generates
new sounds that are hybrids of the two you choose. Sex between sounds.
FLASH
EKPUROSIS
by Xavier Pehuet (France)
Ekpurosis is "universal regeneration"; many visual and auditory
movements. Visuals done with Imaging Lingo.
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P-SOUP
by Mark Napier, John Maxwell Hobbes, and Kees van
den Doel (USA)
Waves of interactive pure tones and colour/shapes. This was made when
Java could only handle 8-bit sound..
JAVA
CTRALTDEL.ORG
by Peter Luining (Netherlands)
Peter Luining's site of Shockwave interactives; uses short sounds,
rectilinear graphics; many net art audio works.
VARIOUS
IXI
SOFTWARE
by Thor Magnusson (Iceland) & friends
A group collaborating on the creation of downloadable Shockwave technology
and music. You download their tools and use them to create music and
visuals.
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CLOCK
DIN
by Gord High & friends (Canada)
Trigger loops (which keep playing) or shots (which play once). Decomposed
songs by Gord High, Ken Toba, Beatrix12, Torisu Koshiro, Geordie Wilson,
and more.
FLASH
REPERCUSSION
by Carla Diana (USA)
A collection of 3D virtual instruments. The interface is the interesting
thing here. Visually well-designed Flash 3D.
FLASH
AUDIOGAME.NET
by Marc Em (France)
A suite of amusing audio toys.
FLASH
PICTUREDISKO
by Mario Klingemann (Germany)
Scratch images from flickr.com that
get transformed from images into MIDI sounds. PC only.
FLASH/PROCESSING
COMPOUND
PILOT
by Jonathan Zalben and M. Jones (USA)
Flash works. See also the downloadable
MAX work for Mac.
FLASH
INNOT.ORG
by Julio Hardisson, Daniel Bravo, Laura Miyashiro,
Felip Miralles (Spain)
3D audio machine. Join 3D shapes together to create visual/aural compositions.
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MYTUNE=MYPOLLOCK
by CJ Yehs (USA/Taiwan)
Select a colour. Then use the keyboard (Q,W,E,R,T,Y,U,I) to create
a tune and a Pollockish bitmap.
FLASH
BLONK
ORGAN
by Jaap Blonk and friends (Netherlands)
Japp Blonk is a famous sound poet and writer. This work is from 1997,
making it one of the first interactive sound poems on the Web.
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VOCALEYES
by Maria Mencia (UK)
Drawing curves causes audio. You can switch colors and sounds.
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DIRTY
PUNK FUCKIN ANARCHY MACHINE
by Kévin Nave (France)
Keyboard controlled aural interactivity. Like the title says.
FLASH
BALLDROPPINGS
by Josh Nimoy (USA)
"Balls fall from the top of the screen and bounce off the lines
you are drawing with the mouse. The balls make a percussive and melodic
sound, whose pitch depends on how fast the ball is moving when it hits
the line."
JSYN/PROCESSING (Java)
SOUNDMAPS
by Jan de Weille (France)
A downloadable executable for PC's.
"Soundmaps makes music out of your desktop actions. Soundmaps
translates a part of the bitmap image on your desktop into sound. Drawing,
typing, surfing, playing a movie etc. will constantly change the sound.
Hence, you can make your own music while working."
C++
ANDRE
MICHELLE
by André Michelle (Germany)
André's lab of his experiments with Flash work is very interesting.
Sort of like JSyn work in its granularity and wave synthesis.
FLASH
NEON
BIBLE
by Vincent Morisset & friends (Canada)
An original song with terrific visual interactivity—much better
than a typical music video. Also check out Vincent's site vincentmorisset.com for other projects.
FLASH
ELECTRICA
by Gundula Markeffsky, Peter Huehlfriedel, Leonard
Schaumann (Germany)
If you can get this working, this is terrific. Uses the Beatnik plugin.
Supplies a link to an installable exe of the plugin, and requires Netscape
4. I installed the plugin and installed Netscape 4.72 but couldn't
get it working on my Windows XP system. But I tell ya this is/was one
of the most exciting interactive sound works for the Web. A crying
shame it's so hard to get working now!
BEATNIK/MIDI
Writings & Video
INTERACTIVE
AUDIO FOR THE WEB
by Jim Andrews (Canada)
I wrote this after putting these links together (2006). A look at interactive
audio for the Web as an art form.
NIO
AND THE ART OF INTERACTIVE AUDIO FOR THE WEB
by Jim Andrews (Canada)
A 2001 essay.
TECHNOTES
ON NIO AND AUDIO PROGRAMMING WITH DIRECTOR
by Jim Andrews (Canada)
A 2002 essay on how the Nio programming was done in Director.
INTERACTIVE
AUDIO ON THE WEB
by Jim Andrews (Canada)
A 2003 essay on the elements of interactive audio on the Web. Many
of the links don't work anymore, but the ideas still work.
SOUNDTOYS.NET
ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS
many authors (International)
A large collection of writing on sound art and computer audio.
NETART.ORG.UY
WRITING LINKS
many authors (International)
Scroll down in the linked doc and you'll find a section called ref.theory.links,
which links to various writings on audio art and technology.
INTERNET
RADIO
by Jim Andrews (Canada)
Links to and thoughts on Internet radio, which is a more interesting
'band' than the regular radio band.
YOUTUBE ON INTERACTIVE MUSIC
by various (International)
There are quite a few interesting videos at youtube.com concerning
offline interactive music projects. In particular, have a look at Reactable.
1995
VIDEO ON INTERACTIVE MUSIC
S. O'Brien, D. Fox, S. Cheifet (USA)
A 1995 episode of the TV show The Computer Chronicles on interactive
music. Interesting to see what it was like in 1995. Demonstrations
include Vid Grid, Sound Toy, William Orbit Strange Cargo, So You Want
to be a Rock & Roll Star, Rock & Roll On Your Own, Dylan:Highway 61
Interactive, Video Jam, and Vivace. Also featured is a visit to Todd
Rundgren's sound studio.
Other news sources for new work
URZHIATA
by emoc (France)
Great collection of links to online interactive sonic works.
GRATIN.ORG
by Antoine Schmitt (France)
Links to works and resources concerning algorithmic art. Not all the
links concern sonic art, but there are good ones here that do.
VISUALMUSIC.BLOGSPOT.COM
by Maura McDonnell (Ireland)
A blog on visual music. Lots of great links and videos--for instance,
to a video by Varese & Le Corbusier called Poeme electronique from
1958.
NEURAL.IT
by Alessandro Ludovico (Italy)
Whenever new works of interactive audio on the net are made, they often
show up here first. Scroll through neural.it looking for works labelled
"e-music". Some of them are Web-based.
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