It appears you can get different modes using search params <https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/main/Sound.js#L8>
Using locrian as the default is wild <https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/main/Sound.js#L26C6-L26...>
This is really cool, but I had complete silence in the room, and the sound on my computer was turned up to the maximum. My cat was lying on me. When I clicked on the screen, my cat (and I, too) got so scared that she scratched my legs. But it's a fun thing, of course!
if only the titling were less ambiguous..
I had my speakers muted and assumed it referred to visual noise, given the graphics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64liF2VuLxI Ratatat - Loud Pipes
Almost there :).
Man, those two first Ratatat albums had such a great sound. I’m not quite sure how they created it but I saw them play in a little club in London and it was every bit as full and textured as on the albums. I have a recording of the gig somewhere.
I think their sound was created by time reversing guitar notes? I was never clear how it would be possible to play that live?
when I saw them live ~18 years ago they made heavy use of gradual fade ins (swells) with an ernie ball volume pedal, it does have a similar sound to a reverse delay effect.
Share it kindly, I’m pleading you.
Such an actually underrated band. That album, Classics, as well as their entire discography is a work of art.
The way they layer sounds is so intricate and dynamic, it pulls you in from the start and keeps you hooked with every listen.
Also the Ratatat Remixes Vol. 1 & 2 are just genius. One of my favourites : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVHCR3W5ITo
Never before seen on HN, must upvote favorite song and take the hit for saying so.
Fuck, I spent a few minutes thinking I had heard something similar somewhere and you solved the mistery, thank you so much.
I don’t get the reference with Loud Pipes
The source code is posted on the author's github, by the way:
He has some files named after GPT3 and GPT4. I wonder what that's about
looks like they were playing around with getting gpt to write some code to render the particles
Particles.js
Particles2d.js
ParticlesGPT3.js
ParticlesGPT4-meh.js
ParticlesGPT4.js
If you’ve ever been by a Tesla coil in person, that static-y noise near the top of the screen is almost a perfect match.
Very cool. It would be good to support multi touch, letting the user instantly switch to another noise by reacting to the latest finger. You would need to use viewport meta to disable page zoom as well.
I was thinking multitouch as well, but more about chords than sequential noises.
This is fun, and the whole website is full of funny and creative projects like this! Well done!
Absolutely excellent. It bought me much joy to have a pad like this (that used to cost me money) pop up on the front page of HN to stick my finger into.
How come it sounds like discrete notes even thought I move continuously? Like I can move around a bit and the note doesn't change very much and then all of a sudden it changes in a discrete jump?
Quantising the oscillator pitch into discrete steps like this is pretty common when it comes to synthesisers. Generally there is also a fine-tuning control that allows the user to offset the output by up to an octave. Makes it easier to not be out-of-tune with other instruments.
this is what i gather: up is noise, down are notes, left to right are different frequencies higher to lower, white dots are noise, color dots are sound frequencies, dots are a visual indication of what components the sound u r hearing is composed of.
Up is a high-pass filter, down is a low-pass filter, left and right moves between different chords.
I found making a white - purple - red - white triangle over and over pleasing.
This is really nice, the ability to add more and make chords would be interesting, though most might be pretty dissonant I guess.
I like how this performs on my 700 euro Laptop. And it sounds cool. Well done!
A possible improvement: add filter resonance control assigned to mouse wheel.
This is incredible. Do you know what you've done?
You've created an instrument!
Kaoss Pad!
Multi-tap is not supported it seems. Could've been a nice thing to have.
Neal fun, Jake fun, who's next?
While not as impressive, I have a small set of fun pages here: https://susam.net/links.html#fun
These are tiny hobby projects I've developed in the limited spare time I get. They serve as creative outlet and keep alive the fun in computing I first discovered many decades ago while learning the Logo programming language.
I'm curious to see what others here do to keep the fun in computing alive for themselves.
My son wanted to know why all planets move in one direction around the sun.
https://strangeloop.nl/max.html
I struggled a bit with finding the right way of controlling this, but with some patience you can set up a cloud of nicely rotating particles, and try to reverse the overall direction of the swirl by adding particles that rotate in the other direction.
Love this! Nice work.
woah my earplugs were at 100% volume, what a jumpscare. but nice tool!
Looks cool. Is it Fractional Brownian Motion or Simplex?
This is fun and pretty.
Boring soon.
Remember, fun comes from frustration. Keep at it
Noice.
lol
Really cool. Related, I asked Claude something like "create a multimedia interactive web experience with audio and mouse interactions" a few months back and it produced something fairly similar. My favourite follow-up prompt was "Make it more Stranger Things" and it turned the background music - which it generated - into a pulsing synthwave sound.
I really need to post these art experiments as some are truly mind-blowing for a machine that can't see.
I dislike how you have directed the topic to yourself, and don't even post the thing
While I agree slightly, this could be just ignored if OT, I don’t feel like it needs to be downvoted to death. And to be fair, HN comments relating the article to personal experience is extremely common and a legitimate part of what HN is about. With only demo and no words in the post it’s hard not to wander, other comments here have done so. You could read the parent comment as being inspired enough to finish a latent project, which is perhaps the same feeling I get from most of the digital/generate/interactive art projects posted here: so cool it makes me want to resurrect mine. Meta topics that are interesting about that: 1- interactive art is often more fun to create than it is to use, and 2- many of us make our livings making and maintaining so much tech for our employers we run out of time to do it for ourselves. ;)
Sorry. You're right of course. Won't do it again.
I didn't mind it, it inspired me. I've always wanted to play with doing something like that, but I've always found it difficult to work with sound and music; and even though I use AI for tons of stuff it never occurred to me that I could also use it to help me out with that. That said, +1 to sharing a link to cool things even if they are half broken, if you think it's cool chances are someone else also will.
Here's a fun one I just made for you. Slightly inspired by OP https://claude.site/artifacts/698c26f4-2f60-428b-8ae0-ac7a29... Took about 15mins of prompting and iteration. Need to press start audio and then drag your mouse around.
The prompting is more interesting than the end result though, in my opinion.
No worries as long as you respect HN guidelines which you didn’t break.