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- helix400, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Heh, I waited around for the moment where every note was played at once. It was worth it.
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17It's like a visualization of the mathematics behind horror movie music. This is great!
- jbum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Agarrahan: This is Jim Bumgardner, the creator of the Whitney Music Box. You are correct - I am not using Flash to manipulate the sound (although you can do this using a very cool plug-in called FlashMidi).
To generate the various sound files, I used a few different methods, depending on the variation. For the first few variations I used my own program Syd, which provides an elegant way to generate the score. For some of the later variations I also used Nyquist (a lisp-like music programming language), and I used Perl to generate a MIDI file. There are links to the Nyquist and Perl scripts on the Whitney page. After rendering the audio (in a 3-minute WAV file), I imported it into flash. The actionscript provides the graphics only, and I cross my fingers
and hope the synch lasts beyond the 3 minute loop point.
Here is an interactive version of the Whitney Music Box which uses a more complicated algorithm for the motion, and generates the music in real-time using Midi. This requires the FlashMidi plug-in, and only works
on Windows, on a very fast machine.
http://www.coverpop.com/whitney/whitneyMidi.html - Ignignokt01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Wow... talk about suspense. Once you see them lining up for that final hit... man that is the coolest thing I've heard/seen in a looong time.
- christophersisk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11That is awesome. Great use of actionscript.
- fletchowns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10i now understand the meaning of the universe
- avPaul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9that's nothing ... you should see it when YOU"RE drunk.
- intoflatlines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8For some reason, this unsettles me.
- MichaelW2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8120 tines?
Thats sickening. Makes me FEEL like I'm on acid!
Definately sounds like a warp gun or some like atomizer from a sci-fi movie. - MikeWeller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8var 7 kicks ass
- Strongoloid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I was going to say, it totally sounds like something from Mario64.
But I think it's really interesting to see complex math, music, or other concepts transformed into a digital media art. - hugznotthugzkid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Almost sounded like a Zelda boss battle from the SNES.
- LeftistPersona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That's pretty freakin' sweet. I am very impressed by how he fit music theory, science, and visual art together. Definitly dugg.
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Did you guys see the primes? They line up perfectly all together after a while. At some point maybe an even larger number of primes all line up.
I'm going to write a version of this app just to find out where those primes lined up and see if I can get maybe the first 1,000 primes to line up also. I'll submit a digg if I find out anything fascinating. - dlichteman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Man would I like to see number seven drunk.....
- jamespurdy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this is like the coolest thing i've ever seen in flash
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4haha.. yeah, sounds like the work of the devil..
the Devil's Interval maybe?
( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4952646.stm ) - ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3try file>save :D
- jbum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3simpleid: The primes do line up after 3 minutes, is that what you're talking about? This isn't a magical property about the choice of primes -- it's because I chose orbits that sync after 3 minutes. The first dot orbits 2 times in 3 minutes. The second dot orbits 3 times in 3 minutes. 5 times, 7 times, 11 times... So no matter what numbers I chose, in 3 minutes, they are all going to line up. Nonetheless, I do like the fact that the patterns compel one to explore number theory.
Don't let me discourage you from writing your own version -- this is why I posted some script examples. My processing page also contains some sample scripts that produce these patterns:
http://www.krazydad.com/p5/ - aepex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Very cool and very interesting.
- Zigerot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Damn, Im late for work now that I watched this.
- wintrmute, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Someone mentioned Mario games.
This reminds me of every well writen, haunting, boss or ghost battle that any Nintendo game had... for some reason I can't forget the math of the sound...
And to the gibson fans out there, this is totaly nodal. - agarrahan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is he combine flash with Perl? I don't think flash can use MIDI's , he must be using something to interface between flash and a midi. In the movie it look like each time a ball hits the line a sound plays, but i don't think you can get that level of sound manipulation just with in flash. humm well very cool little app oh yeah waiting till all the balls line up is very special
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is the most incredible thing i've seen in a very very long time..
- ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that is awesome, the perl script is so complicated :P!
- hseldon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All the source code is linked on the site. You can see for yourself:
http://www.coverpop.com/whitney/makeWhitneyMidi.txt - dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1trippy!
- fubes2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Watch/listen to 'Var 7' it's a TRIP.
Especially on mine because I think the computer that's playing it is a bit underpowered so everytime it finishes a cycle the line 'breaks' a little and makes even trippier patterns.
o_o - TransmitThis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Someone please tell us how to save these flash files in FF
tried all the usual ways even been in the cache but no go
Anyway - well nice - carlosglz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The spinning dots remind me of the shape of galaxies...
- anon52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Accidentally (mebbe) I started two of these going at the same time. The overlaying of the pitches and rythms work really nicely. Next to try, the primes and non-primes - wonder if I can force them both to start at the same instant....
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, I wrote a java application now which does this to the tune of the mathematical constant e.
Each dot from 1 to n takes the speed of 1/n!
I havn't attached sound to it, I'm looking in to generating MIDI sounds, well see.
So far this stuff is fun, I'm going to start looking for patterns and such soon, and try some other algorithms to get some neat sound patterns. - o2sk8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This just reminds me of Guitar Hero. As for the original link, very impressive and mesmerizing. Excellent job Mr. Bumgardner.
- TugsMcgroin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm all over # 11
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Whoooaaaa, that was amazing.
- nextjen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's VERY unsettling.
- MaggieL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If you like that, check out this: http://www.musanim.com/
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http://musicaviva.info/category/tribal/ tribal tribal - quiddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Prime Number's Only is a TRIP! Wait around for a while to see some amazing patterns.
- Eric21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.duggmirror.com
- justsayno2jesus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0About 1 second into "210" is the sound from the 70s cartoon Superfriends. Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice! Holy *****, it's a good thing I'm totally wasted or I wouldn't have heard that. Must... bookmark.... site...
- agarrahan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Interesting little app, its unfortante that users must install the flash midi befor they can view the movie. A mounth ago i had the flash midi player installed but never was able to dig in to it. It would be nice if macromedia (rest in piece ) developed flash to support more varied formats like midi, or mods. Currently there is only so much you can do with sound manipulation. But i have seen some promising actionscript 3 tech demos, it seems that actionscript 3 will allow for a lower level control over your applications.
here is a link to my fave blog which has some good example, you'll need flash 8.5/9 to view some of the file. http://blog.andre-michelle.com/
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