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Generative Music

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:08:11 +0000

Continuing my HTML5 and canvas experiments, I’ve put together a generative music system. Essentially, a series of particles move across a field, occasionally triggering sounds — the sound triggered depends on their location in the field.

There is, of course, a little bit more to it than that. Under the hood, I’ve got a series of HTML5 Audio objects that are used to provide polyphonic audio using a simple round-robin algorithm (I encoded the audio in OGG, so you’ll need to use an OGG-friendly browser, like Firefox). The particles are much simpler than those in my previous canvas dalliance, in that they don’t swarm, and their motion is more linear.

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Terminal

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:25:43 +0000

My first track in quite a while. :/ This one is a bit of a different from my usual stuff (although I tend to say that a lot nowadays… Hmm…). Not quite sure why I had such a long hiatus, but hopefully this track spells the end of it. We’ll see.

I made use of some of the samples that my friends at ModPlug Central gave me for a wedding present, as well as mutilating some of my other sample libraries.

Visit the website to listen to the audio.

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Songpack #1

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:41:17 +0000

[Download archive]

I’ve uploaded an archive of my music for easier download. This archive currently contains eighteen tracks, eight of which are no longer available anywhere else! The tracks included in this pack are:

Ambient
- Clockwork
EDM
- Falling
- Plus que juste un rêve
- Raining in the east
- Rebellion
- The call
- Twelve nineteen
Pop/Rock
- Evening with you
- Fallen embers
- Just to say
- Quiet rituals
- Standing on the brink of forever
Orchestral
- Dawn
- Ink and parchment
- Journey
- Untitled hymn
- Whispers of love (2008)
(Fun) Droopy the dragon

I may well create other ‘songpacks’ for download, so keep checking back. There’ll always be a couple of exclusive tracks in each pack, so it’ll be worth your while. I hope.

Download all eighteen tracks now!

Clockwork

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Sun, 24 May 2009 07:10:16 +0000

This track is rather unusual for me; it doesn’t really fall into any of my usual styles. I personally find it quite relaxing, especially when I listen to it with headphones. Perhaps it’s a bit too relaxing: my wife had to go and have a nap after she heard the complete piece.

Let me know what you think about it — any and all opinions are, as always, more than welcome.

Visit the website to listen to the audio.

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Spheres

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:33:48 +0000

Completed: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (Download)

Composing an ambient track is a very soothing experience for me. There’s complexity, experimentation, and simplicity, and I find that my mood is sharpened, made clearer, in the writing.

This is how I’m feeling.

Visit the website to listen to the audio.