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weq8

TERO PARVIAINEN

weq8 is a parametric equaliser for Web Audio. Inspired by Abelton Live's EQ Eight it offers a filter bank with 8 (lowpass, highpass, shelf, peak and notch) filters. You can hook up a intuitive Web Component UI, or use the API to control the parameters from your own code.

RNBO - Run Max patches on the web and elsewhere

CYCLING '74

RNBO is a new extension for the Max visual programming language that lets you export Max patches to run in Web Audio AudioWorklet nodes. As well as allowing you to author sound engines using a familar authoring environment, the big selling point is that the same patches can also be exported as binaries to run on the Raspberry Pi, as VST3 plugins, Max for Live devices or simply as C++ code for you to edit and embed. There's a fairly hefty price tag to get Max and RNBO, but the trial version will let you try things out.

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Sound

BARTOSZ CIECHANOWSKI

A wonderful explorable explanation of Sound from basic molecular physics to modes of vibration and reverberation in enclosed spaces. You may have seen some of Ciechanowski's previous interactive essays on mechanical watches or cameras and lenses and this is similarly magical.

Resources for Microtonal Music

SEVISH

A collection of resources for exploring Microtonal music and microtonal tunings. Including Scale Workshop which allows you to create microtonal tunings and play them within your web browser. You can download the tunings you create in a variety of formats for other software and hardware devices.

Dittytoy

REINDER NIJHOFF

Dittytoy is a web-based generative music environment using a minimalistic javascript API. The API syntax is loosely based on the syntax of Sonic Pi. I particularly enjoyed this Vocoder signing Nessun Dorma and this version of Oxygene Pt. 4 by Jean-Michel Jarre.

Euclidean Rhythms

TORBEN JANSEN

In his paper The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms Godfried Toussaint observed that some mathematics dervived by Euclid could be used to efficiently generate music rhythms found in many of the world's musics. Torben Jansens Observable document allows you to play with the mathematics from the paper and see how it is implement (and how it sounds!). I also came across this post by Lawton Hall which gives a visual explanation of the algorithm and lots of recorded examples of rhythms that can be generated with it.

AES Journal Special Issue on Expanding Frontiers of Web Audio

AES

A special issue of Audio Engineering Society journal focussed on some novel future applications of Web Audio. Including papers on Web MIDI, live performance using WebRTC and more.

The Infinite Conversation

GIACOMO MICELI

an AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek. Everything you hear is fully generated by a machine. The opinions and beliefs expressed do not represent anyone. They are the hallucinations of a slab of silicon.