Complete works
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tHaasX
(2023)
generative web browser music
tHaasX
(2023)
A generative implementation of the famous and amazing THX deep note, where random voices convene on a major chord. I added extra overtones to make it sound like a G.F. Haas piece. With a multi-dimensional oscilloscope to represent the sound in coloured lines. Unique each time you run it! Implemented using WebAudio (actually the first experiment I ever made with WebAudio, a couple of years ago), and animated using the built-in FFT analysis from WebAudio, coupled with HTML Canvas (just did this part yesterday). Because there are a huge number of oscillators + all the FFTs, it's quite heavy...so it sounds prettier on a computer. I'm sure it would be possible to make a much more efficient version but I was more interested in trying out the visualisation this week than optimising the audio code!
Try it a few times! You can also layer multiple renditions on top of one another, as long as the computer can handle it!
ghost box
(2023)
generative website installation (with web radio)
ghost box
(2023)Inspired by an idea of Anaïs Fontanges, this is a web page that emulates ghost-hunting radio scanners as used by paranormal investigators. This idea sparked a period of fanatacism about radio and particularly about how the weird romance of the ephemerality radio somehow holds on even when you carry it into the digital domain (where the ephemerality is a little bit faked...)
It basically cycles randomly through a range of French and Irish web radio stations, with white noise faking a transition between stations! But sure the REAL ghost boxes are fakes too, aren't they....>>??????