« BackNoisenoise.jake.funSubmitted by amadeuspagel 9 months ago
  • ErigmolCt 9 months ago

    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!

    • 867-5309 9 months ago

      if only the titling were less ambiguous..

      • deergomoo 9 months ago

        I had my speakers muted and assumed it referred to visual noise, given the graphics

      • glass-z13 9 months ago

        Anyone has a general solutions for this? Lots of time that i open such apps featured on hn they're always on 100% volume with no way to turn it down and it blows up my ears... I'm using firefox and tried some volume extension but it was a 20% chance if it worked on the website or not

        • lewantmontreal 9 months ago

          Set ‘media.default_volume’ to 0.3 or so in about:config.

          • bornfreddy 9 months ago

            On ff mobile, where Mozilla in their endless wisdom disabled about:config, the same can be reached via url chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml .

          • rambambram 9 months ago

            A physical volume knob on or near your keyboard.

            • dizhn 9 months ago

              On linux there's a suite of audio effects that work with pipewire. Compressor and limiter are included so it should be possible to do what you need.

              https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

              • cdfuller 9 months ago

                In Chrome I set all sites to be muted by default. I assume Firefox has the same feature.

            • johnchristopher 9 months ago

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64liF2VuLxI Ratatat - Loud Pipes

              Almost there :).

              • aidos 9 months ago

                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.

                • etrautmann 9 months ago

                  I think their sound was created by time reversing guitar notes? I was never clear how it would be possible to play that live?

                  • madisp 9 months ago

                    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.

                    • aidos 9 months ago

                      Yeah, that was about the same time when I saw them. From memory they just looked like your standard 3 piece but had those lovely backwards sounding swells. I recall being really surprised because it sounds like the sort of thing you’d struggle to do live.

                  • SSLy 9 months ago

                    Share it kindly, I’m pleading you.

                  • sph 9 months ago

                    Such an actually underrated band. That album, Classics, as well as their entire discography is a work of art.

                    • blackethylene 9 months ago

                      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

                    • melenaboija 9 months ago

                      Fuck, I spent a few minutes thinking I had heard something similar somewhere and you solved the mistery, thank you so much.

                      • password4321 9 months ago

                        Never before seen on HN, must upvote favorite song and take the hit for saying so.

                        • orbital223 9 months ago

                          I got more of a Ratatat - Tacobel Canon vibe:

                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=use8dcTn4tI

                          • Norah_C 9 months ago

                            It really great I completely agree

                          • owenpalmer 9 months ago

                            I don't think I've ever seen a video with 26M views, but no description.

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                              • grugagag 9 months ago

                                I don’t get the reference with Loud Pipes

                                • v64 9 months ago

                                  moving around on the noise site, you can get it to resemble parts of loud pipes, especially at around 2:35 [1] with the repeated upward bits

                                  https://youtu.be/64liF2VuLxI?t=155

                                  • grugagag 9 months ago

                                    Thanks for taking the time to explain, I was chasing my tail looking for something visual

                              • jedimastert 9 months ago

                                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...>

                                • rav 9 months ago

                                  The default chords from left to right sound pretty standard in my ears: vii⁰, I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi - but maybe it's locrian if you take the leftmost chord to be the tonic, and a plain major if you take the second from the left to be the tonic?

                                  • arendtio 9 months ago

                                    To use it, do you have to add a mode parameter like so?

                                    https://noise.jake.fun/?mode=major

                                    • jedimastert 9 months ago

                                      Yuppers.

                                  • jjcm 9 months ago

                                    Complete aside, but Jake of jake.fun is an absolute delight. I work with him over at Figma and he’s such a genuine person who makes little nuggets like this on a constant basis. He’s one of those people who make tech a fun industry to be in.

                                    • swiftcoder 9 months ago

                                      The source code is posted on the author's github, by the way:

                                      https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise

                                      • y-curious 9 months ago

                                        He has some files named after GPT3 and GPT4. I wonder what that's about

                                        • billyoyo 9 months ago

                                          looks like they were playing around with getting gpt to write some code to render the particles

                                        • andai 9 months ago

                                          Particles.js

                                          Particles2d.js

                                          ParticlesGPT3.js

                                          ParticlesGPT4-meh.js

                                          ParticlesGPT4.js

                                        • lozenge 9 months ago

                                          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.

                                          • al_borland 9 months ago

                                            I was thinking multitouch as well, but more about chords than sequential noises.

                                            • Jolter 9 months ago

                                              They are already chords.

                                              • jonwinstanley 9 months ago

                                                The chords are the best part of this, makes everything sound good and in tune

                                            • binarysneaker 9 months ago

                                              Absolutely. I sooo wanted to tap a snare or drum with my thumb while playing the chord with my index finger.

                                            • andrew-v 9 months ago

                                              Nice, you can also pass other modes and keys (root notes) as URL search params. It’s G locrian by default.

                                              https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/3c90aadf4db49505878a203...

                                              • jeffreygoesto 9 months ago

                                                Reminds me of https://soundbox.cognable.com/ which we use to interest disabled children in touch screens, preparing for a talker.

                                                • pruetj 9 months ago

                                                  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.

                                                  • jstanley 9 months ago

                                                    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?

                                                    • atomicstack 9 months ago

                                                      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.

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                                                      • orko 9 months ago

                                                        This is fun, and the whole website is full of funny and creative projects like this! Well done!

                                                        • nobrains 9 months ago

                                                          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.

                                                          • kamiheku 9 months ago

                                                            Up is a high-pass filter, down is a low-pass filter, left and right moves between different chords.

                                                          • rurban 9 months ago

                                                            Too much melody, not enough noise. The brain needs to be stimulated better. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0z5lCJUAge5gHjCFGZNnqQ?si=... (Spotify artists removed lot of their songs in between)

                                                            • Trufa 9 months ago

                                                              This is really nice, the ability to add more and make chords would be interesting, though most might be pretty dissonant I guess.

                                                              • cvoss 9 months ago

                                                                The chord progression is i^o II iii iv V VI vii, which are the successive triads of a locrian scale, which is like a major scale but you start from the 7th note of the scale (ti). In this case, use A flat major, but start on G.

                                                                • butterfly42069 9 months ago

                                                                  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.

                                                                  • aabbcc1241 9 months ago

                                                                    It doesn't work on firefox (no error message in console) and it works on chrome.

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                                                                      • racefan76 9 months ago

                                                                        Wow, this is like something I'd find on the Bored Button website.

                                                                        • BMc2020 9 months ago

                                                                          I found making a white - purple - red - white triangle over and over pleasing.

                                                                          • squarefoot 9 months ago

                                                                            A possible improvement: add filter resonance control assigned to mouse wheel.

                                                                            • abcd_f 9 months ago

                                                                              Multi-tap is not supported it seems. Could've been a nice thing to have.

                                                                              • keepamovin 9 months ago

                                                                                This is incredible. Do you know what you've done?

                                                                                You've created an instrument!

                                                                                • emursebrian 9 months ago
                                                                                  • john2x 9 months ago

                                                                                    Does it work with multiple inputs on touch screens?

                                                                                    • keepamovin 9 months ago

                                                                                      No, and that was not a limitation for me. Restrictions often lead to more creativity. Embrace that.

                                                                                      but at the same time a multitouch version would be cool. Why don’t you make one?

                                                                                      Also, the author needs to add something like user select none on touchscreen and make it aggressive because otherwise iOS Likes to select anything You tap too long. iOS is sticky and easy and eager to please like that ha ha ha!

                                                                                  • 4ggr0 9 months ago

                                                                                    woah my earplugs were at 100% volume, what a jumpscare. but nice tool!

                                                                                    • ww520 9 months ago

                                                                                      Looks cool. Is it Fractional Brownian Motion or Simplex?

                                                                                      • hermitcrab 9 months ago

                                                                                        "Cloudflare, what is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the Patent Trolls."

                                                                                        • cubefox 9 months ago

                                                                                          Neal fun, Jake fun, who's next?

                                                                                          • susam 9 months ago

                                                                                            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.

                                                                                            • isoprophlex 9 months ago

                                                                                              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.

                                                                                              • maroonblazer 9 months ago

                                                                                                Love this! Nice work.

                                                                                                • isoprophlex 9 months ago

                                                                                                  Thanks! Full disclosure: by the time this was done, the actual question that prompted this was long forgotten. I got a "huh, that's nice." for my trouble (:

                                                                                            • kaeruct 9 months ago

                                                                                              Definitely not as polished, but I make silly visual things from time to time and recently published my favorite ones here: https://kaeruct.github.io/gallery/

                                                                                            • grugagag 9 months ago

                                                                                              This is fun and pretty.

                                                                                              • revskill 9 months ago

                                                                                                Boring soon.

                                                                                                • grugagag 9 months ago

                                                                                                  Remember, fun comes from frustration. Keep at it

                                                                                              • nilslindemann 9 months ago

                                                                                                I like how this performs on my 700 euro Laptop. And it sounds cool. Well done!

                                                                                                • raincole 9 months ago

                                                                                                  Noice.

                                                                                                  • hummusFiend 9 months ago

                                                                                                    lol

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                                                                                                        • JofArnold 9 months ago

                                                                                                          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.

                                                                                                          • hackernewds 9 months ago

                                                                                                            I dislike how you have directed the topic to yourself, and don't even post the thing

                                                                                                            • dahart 9 months ago

                                                                                                              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. ;)

                                                                                                              • JofArnold 9 months ago

                                                                                                                Sorry. You're right of course. Won't do it again.

                                                                                                                • Unai 9 months ago

                                                                                                                  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.

                                                                                                                  • JofArnold 9 months ago

                                                                                                                    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.

                                                                                                                    • Unai 9 months ago

                                                                                                                      Oh wow, I didn't know artifacts were shareable, and you can even take it to your own conversation to keep tinkering with it. I'm gonna have fun with this, thanks!

                                                                                                                  • grugagag 9 months ago

                                                                                                                    No worries as long as you respect HN guidelines which you didn’t break.

                                                                                                                  • tomalbrc 9 months ago

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                                                                                                                    • DiscourseFan 9 months ago

                                                                                                                      look I post stupid shit too sometimes but Dang gives me a break because occasionally I actually contribute. But you aren't going to get away with comments like this for long. There's a whole set of guidelines[0]--they should post them more clearly but what the hell, I guess the mods would rather you were introduced to the culture through "polite" comments like mine rather than getting a rulebook thrown at you.

                                                                                                                      Look man, 4chan is way cooler, and the culture there is way better. But, you know, its like Dada on steroids in there. This has got just a little bit more structure, and there's cool shit posted all the time and it often gets to the top. It's up to you to participate; I try not too, it can be a huge waste of time.

                                                                                                                      [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html