WEB MUSIC APPS FOR EVERYBODY

BeatMap

#93

Authors: ehh hahah, Joanna Wabik

Great-looking map of Nowa Huta, Kraków that was transformed into a musical piece by different age participants during the workshops of recording and creating sounds.

#noveltyArt #DIY #forKids #limitedVision #visual

AAA - the preconfigured synthesizer and sequencer

#1

Authors: Mark Fell, Rian Treanor, James Bradbury

Pretty impressive and original way of thinking of sequencer. Authors preconfigured the app for the users, leaving only some options available to change. The app works real time, so few people in one room can play together

#noveltyArt #realTime #sequencer #smallBandwidth

Abundant Music - MIDI track generator

#2

Authors: Per Nyblom

Made in 2017, Abundant Music is a neat MIDI track generator that is well thought-out and smart enough to simultanously let the user control a lot of parameters, and encourage them to just click 'random' and see what happens. The system is able to create genuine music tracks with good divisions.

#DIY #mustCheck #noveltyArt #openSource

Advanced online sequencer

#3

Authors: Evan Feenstra

Works well on mobile devices, allows to create synthesizer voices and use FreeSound samples.

#DIY #FreeSound #limitedVision #mustCheck #openSource #sequencer

Another cool sequencer

#4

Authors: Stuart Keith

This one on the other hand lets you sample tracks from freesound and souncloud.

#DIY #FreeSound #openSource #sequencer

Another sequencer made by the same author

#5

Authors: Stuart Keith

This time it's based on polirhytms and parameter randomization. Neat to experiment with.

#DIY #FreeSound #limitedVision #openSource #sequencer #smallBandwidth

Aphex Twin's 'aistsana'

#6

Authors: Alex Bainter

Generative interpretation of a song made by electronic music legend. It's only one web interpretation of Aphex Twin song that we could find.

#accessible #DIY #limitedVision #openSource #reconstruction #smallBandwidth

Audiomass

#7

Authors: Pantelis Kalogiros

Browser based sound wave editor. A couple of simple effects and the option of analysis make this app extremely useful when the user needs to edit something quickly and has no adequate program installed.

#DIY #mustCheck #openSource #tool

AudioSauna

#8

Authors: Aaro Väänänen

Free DAW made in old technology, Flash, that is no longer maintained. We couldn't find older online DAW project, that was developed that much. It is no longer maintained at least from 2014.

#classic #DAW #tool

Audio to MIDI converter

#9

Authors: Conversion-Tool.com

Doesn't perform particularily well, is still interesting nevertheless. It's something along the lines of black MIDI, but let it be pointed out that such tool exists in the browser.

#commercial #tool

Audiotool

#10

Authors:

Free online DAW, that's architecture is modular, so we can combine different sound modules together. Its community constantly create new presets and samples. Export to .wav files is restricted for users with paid plan.

#DAW #tool

BandLab

#11

Authors: BandLab Technologies

Free DAW with huge community. Its authors offer integrated mobile app as well. It has nice user interface and several intersting fresh features.

#DAW #tool

Beepbox

#12

Authors: John Nesky

Browser program made for creating simple drafts of melodies or songs and sharing them with others (each configuration within an app has its own unique URL address). It has pretty strong community, that shares their work made with this tool.

#DIY #openSource #smallBandwidth #tool

Blossom (based on Brian Eno's “Bloom”)

#13

Authors: Alex Bainter

You can click wherever or let the computer click for you. Inspired by recent works of Brian Eno released in app form on iPhones.

#DIY #forKids #limitedVision #openSource #reconstruction #smallBandwidth

Breakbeat generator

#14

Authors: Tero Parviainen

A simple app that takes audio material and creates glitchy rhythmic variations based on it.

#DIY #limitedVision #openSource #smallBandwidth #tool

Chrome Music Lab - collection of simple music applications

#15

Authors: Google Experiments team

Most of the apps here are educational and aimed at a younger audience, examples include a spectogram or a simple melody editor. Nevertheless, everyone should be able to find something interesting to play with, no matter their age.

#bigTech #forKids #learn #limitedVision #openSource

Citizen DJ

#16

Authors: Brian Foo

App that lets users create beats out of the Library of Congress' catalog.

#DIY #openSource #sequencer

Coffee shop music

#17

Authors: no info provided

Authors of the page claim that coffee/tea shop music stimulates people creatively. The user can pick the type of restaurant and listen to corresponding music.

#backgroundMuzak #commercial

Comprehensive colletion of Spotify stats

#18

Authors: Glenn McDonald

The page lets users look up various Spotify trends and stats like the most popular music in their city or on their campus. It seems like to make the stats more representative of a given place, the authors filtered off most popular music worldwide.

#bigTech #descriptive #longRead #mustCheck

“Concert for Orchestra and Piano” John Cage

#19

Authors: Academic Personnel of Universities of Huddersfield and Leeds

Widely known and liked piece for streaming in the browser. You can set almost all parameters of the piece, and it can be played alongside eye-catching visuals.

#12+ #classical #limitedVision #longRead #reconstruction

Contol music with your stance

#20

Authors: Tero Parviainen

App generates a melody based on the user's stance seen through his camera.

#DIY #limitedVision #openSource

Corruption Loops (based on William Basinski's “Desintegration Loops”)

#21

Authors: Alex Bainter

Corruption Loops is a page written by Alex Bainter which generates a unique music piece and the deconstructs it.

#DIY #limitedVision #openSource #reconstruction #smallBandwidth

Diatonic Dreams

#22

Authors: Tero Parviainen

Simple app that generates certain progressions client-side. We recommend setting a mellow tempo and clicking around - really relaxing.

#ambient #DIY #limitedVision #noveltyArt #openSource

“Discreet music” Brian Eno

#23

Authors: author missing

Audiovisual website.

#accessible #ambient #forKids #limitedVision #reconstruction #smallBandwidth #visual

Dot Piano

#24

Authors: Alex Chen, Yotam Mann

Dot Piano is a visual musical instrument that lives on the web. Use your computer keys or MIDI keyboard to record a song, then share it simply by sending a link.

#forKids #limitedVision #smallBandwidth #visual

Drive and listen

#25

Authors: Erkam Şeker

App plays a first-person perspective video of driving around a selected city and plays a radio station of user choice from that place.

#DIY

Erik Satie's 'Gymnopedie 1-3'

#26

Authors: Tero Parviainen

Well known work of Erik Satie visualized by the graphs, where each unique note is represented by verticle.

#classical #DIY #limitedVision #math #openSource #reconstruction #visual

Euclidean sequences generator

#27

Authors: Tero Parviainen

But with nice animations and lightweight sounding.

#limitedVision #math #sequencer #smallBandwidth

FreeSound loop generator

#28

Authors: Javi Agenjo, Bram de Jong, Javi Agenjo, Bram de Jong, Frederic Font

App generates great sound sequences with use of FreeSound library. It has nice functionalities of exporting sounds and MIDI files of created sequences.

#FreeSound #limitedVision #mustCheck #openSource #sequencer

Freesound - online sample aggregator

#29

Authors: FreeSound team

Most user are probably familiar with this site. Nevertheless let it be pointed out that it is an open source project, on this occasion we would like to link to a couple of similar sites.

#classic #FreeSound #openSource #tool

Freesound Trip

#30

Authors: AudioCommons

Explore the infinite cosmos with sounds taken from the freesound library as stars.

#FreeSound #limitedVision #openSource #sequencer

Generative.fm

#31

Authors: Alex Bainter

Platform that lets users create and share generated music. The idea is creating simple, ambient tracks, which are generally meant to be listened to as muzak.

#DIY #limitedVision #noveltyArt #openSource

GitHub audio

#32

Authors: Sudhanshu Mishra

GitHub is a popular website to host source code and its history online. This app interprets different type of actions from GitHub by sound of bell, string pluc or string swell.

#accessible #ambient #DIY #limitedVision #openSource #realTime

Global sequencer

#33

Authors: Studio Counterpoint

Version of a digital sequencer commisioned by UNESCO, which lets every visitor on the page post their own recording and become a part of a global track.

#limitedVision #realTime #sequencer

Glowsynth

#34

Authors: Ed Ball

Browser based synth that lets users play sound using their keyboard or by clicking the screen. Has some eerie visuals.

#DIY #openSource #smallBandwidth #tool #visual

Got rhythm?

#35

Authors: concerthotels.com

The user has only one task: press the spacebar 20 times in 120 bpm tempo. Later the site scores their performance on a scale from 0 to 1000.

#bigTech #forKids #learn #limitedVision #smallBandwidth

Guide to creating web apps in JavaScript

#36

Authors: Tero Parviainen

Clear, simple guide to creating your own web app with examples of already completed ones. Even people who aren't interested in writing such apps can interactively 'look under the hood' of the code.

#descriptive #learn #smallBandwidth

Halloween music generator

#37

Authors: Matt McCorkle

Fun app based on Sam Reider's 'The Skeleton Rag'.

#DIY #forKids #limitedVision #reconstruction #smallBandwidth

Having a camera is enought to conduct an orchestra

#38

Authors: Google Experiments team

Be an orchestra conductor with use of your camera.

#bigTech #forKids

How Generative Music Works

#39

Authors: Tero Parviainenn

Web guide with a multitude of interactive examples from the history of contemporary music. Probably the biggest application in the registry, going through it all takes around an hour or two. The size of it, combined with practical uses of learned concepts makes it worth at least a couple of professional lessons. The guide collects various apps created by Parviainen, some of which will pop up in our registry in different variations/extentions.

#12+ #learn #longRead #mustCheck

How sounds the Ney York's underground?

#40

Authors: Alexander Chen

Each crossing of underground's route is interpreted as a string sound, so all lines create an composition.

#accessible #DIY #forKids #realTime

Human voice modulation

#41

Authors: Neil Thapen

The app simulates voice modulation, lets the user control the position of the tongue, closure of the throat, opening of the nasal cavity etc.

#classic #DIY #forKids #learn #physic

Imaginary Soundscape

#42

Authors: Qosmo

Select any place from map or upload the image and wait for AI to find a sound that describes input the best.

#accessible #AI #mustCheck

Interactive web app explaining the basics of sound synthesis

#43

Authors: Ableton team

Web app curated by the creators of Ableton (one of the most popular music editing and creation softwares) that introduces most important concepts and provides a sandbox enviroment for users to try them in practice.

#bigTech #learn #mustCheck

Intersymmetric: Sequencer 01

#44

Authors: Mark Fell, Rian Treanor, James Bradbury, Joe Gilmore

Actually, the same idea as the AAA sequencer, but executed differently. The app works real time, so few people in one room can play together

#noveltyArt #realTime #sequencer

“Jasmine” Jai Paul

#45

Authors: Bronze

Created via Bronze AI in collaboration with the original's creator, Jai Paul. The site infinitely plays an arrangement of a song called “Jasmine”. The Bronze team also prepared an exhibition in MoMA in collaboration with Philippe Parreno, Arca and Nicolas Becker.

#accessible #AI #reconstruction

Latent Cycles

#46

Authors: Tero Parviainen

Generate a latent space of melodic loops using the artificial intelligence, and then play the loops against each other exploring the latent harmonic possibilities.

#AI #DIY #openSource #sequencer

L-drones

#47

Authors: Tero Parviainen

Another one of Tero's hard to explain, but very relaxing apps. Enjoy.

#DIY #noveltyArt #openSource

Listen to Bitcoin

#48

Authors: Maximillian Laumeister

Each action based on bitcoin is interpreted by sound in real time.

#accessible #DIY #realTime

“Mass Migration”

#49

Authors: Marpi, Angelique Hering, An On Bast, Khalid Farquhar, Camille MacRae, Next Art Night

App similar to “Odra” above, this time less interactive musically. In return we get great music by Wrocław based producer An On Bast.

#marpi #noveltyArt #visual

Melobytes - collection of tools

#50

Authors: gardos-software

Simple tools such as generation of chords, vocal parts, MIDI tracks; mostly using AI. As long as we accept the limits for processed data and lower quality of generated objects, the site is free to use.

#commercial #tool

Melody Mixer

#51

Authors: Google Experiments Team

Given two different melodies, AI merges them together, creating a new one melody line.

#AI #bigTech #tool

Mozart's 'Dice Game'

#52

Authors: PlayOnlineDiceGames.com

Mozart Dice Game more commonly known as Musical Dice Game is a system in which dice is used to generate music from precomposed options. In 1787, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart published a musical composition entitled 'Musikalisches Würfelspiel'. This composition allows one, as Mozart puts it, 'to compose, without the least knowledge of music, so many German waltzes or ländler as one pleases, by throwing a certain number with two dice'

#classical #reconstruction

Musical infographic about our planet

#53

Authors: Brian Foo

Every latitude is expressed by various metrics such as combined GDP, CO2 emissions, or temperature. Every metric has a musical instrument assigned, so the bigger the number, the louder the sound. All of them combined create a wall of sound that changes with the selected latitude.

#DIY #forKids #learn #openSource #physic

“Music eclipticalis” John Cage

#54

Authors: Brian Foo

Staff overlayed on the celestial sphere, where stars represent notes. John Cage wrote his piece based on the atlas, here the sky is interpreted based on the HYG database.

#classical #DIY #forKids #openSource #reconstruction

Music generated based on random Wikipedia articles

#55

Authors: Ales Tsurko

In real time the page picks a couple of random articles and interprets a string of characters as musical sequences.

#DIY #mustCheck #noveltyArt #openSource

“Music Mouse” Laurie Spiegel

#56

Authors: Tero Parviainen

Reconstruction of pioneer work of Laurie Spiegel, that was an experiment about designing a music composing system that could be oparated with computer mouse only.

#DIY #reconstruction

MyNoise.net

#57

Authors: Stéphane Pigeon

The user defines what he needs and the page provides them with corresponding field recordings, with limited configuration. It seems that this is one of the more popular pages of such type that lets users personalize it more than other ones.

#backgroundMuzak #classic #DIY

Neural Bach Slowly

#58

Authors: Tero Parviainen

Neural network generating Bach's pieces is a topic widely known for a few decades. This one in particular is a little different because of it's slow tempo.

#ambient #classical #reconstruction

Neural Beatbox

#59

Authors: Qosmo

Neural Beatbox is a website where the AI analyzes voices and claps recorded by the user with a webcam, and generates new rhythms.

#AI #forKids #sequencer

Neural drum machine

#60

Authors: Tero Parviainen

After the user writes a rhythm, the program analyses it and generates it's continuation via it's own models based on neural networks.

#AI #DIY #openSource #tool

Nice sampler with pretty visualization

#61

Authors: Lullatone

Bank of sounds and animations, that can be played with computer keyboard (you can just start rhythmically typing when page is loaded).

#accessible #DIY #forKids #mustCheck #visual

noises.online

#62

Authors: Stéphane Pigeon

This page on the other hand lets users create unusual combinations of field recordings, such as a busy coffee shop with jungle noises. It also has controls for EQ and sound intensity. Both MyNoise.net and noises.online were created by Stéphane Pigeon.

#backgroundMuzak #DIY

"Odra" - musical exhibit online

#63

Authors: Marpi, Stand & Marvel, Huncwot, Garrett Bradley

The page generates music with attractive visuals. Simple, but well made and interactive.

#marpi #noveltyArt #visual

Offscore - interactive music album

#64

Authors: YenTing Lo, Vanja Mrgan, Ferran Bertomeu Castells

Music album made as an interactive game. Currently it has two songs, more to come.

#game #seizureWarning

Ok, this one is the last one made by Stuart

#65

Authors: Stuart Keith

In general it's a development of his previous ideas. Try clicking random and listen to different combinations

#DIY #FreeSound #openSource #sequencer

Omni - discover different musical scales

#66

Authors: Luke Phillips

A tool useful for discovering more obscure musical scales such as Japanese Hirajōshi or Iwato. It also lets the user record a short track and loop it.

#descriptive #DIY #learn #openSource

Online synth - Viktor NV-1

#67

Authors: Nikolay Tsenkov

A regular polyphonic synth inside the browser, that supports preset preloading and has a multitude of functions in general.

#DIY #openSource #tool

OpenSource music database - MusicBrainz

#68

Authors: MetaBrainz

MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.

#descriptive

Piano Scribe - transcryption of audio to MIDI

#69

Authors: Google team

Transcryption of audio to MIDI using neural networks (Magenta technology to be exact). Users can upload their own audio or try to sing right there and then. The AI was trained on piano music, so similar input material is supposed to bring the best results. The output can be downloaded or streamed in the browser.

#AI #openSource #tool

Poly 60 - simple musical rhythmic game

#70

Authors: Ferran Bertomeu

Having seven polyrhythmic sequences user has to complete puzzle shown on the top. Quite pleasant and challenging.

#12+ #DIY #game

Roland synthesizers online

#71

Authors: Studio Counterpoint

Online version of three popular Roland synths/drum machines: TR-808, TB-303 and SH-101, made for the 50th anniversary of the company.

#DAW #sequencer #tool

Sequencer based on microphone recordings

#72

Authors: Stuart Keith

Thanks to the nice user interface, it allows for creating songs really quickly.

#DIY #openSource #sequencer

Sharp11 - jazz musician's assistant

#73

Authors: Julian Rosenblum

Simple tool that has three modes: theory engine, improviser and jazz automatization. First mode helps with easy transpositions of different chords in different scales. Second mode generates an infinite stream of music based on the input. Third - most interesting in our opinion - lets users interactively create jazz progressions. The user decides where they want to place the chord and the system generates a progression there that makes the most sense.

#composing #DIY #mustCheck #openSource #tool

Slowed + reverb music generator

#74

Authors: Alex Bainter

Simple tool that regenerates the given song with two effects added - slowed audio and reverb, making it more 'atmospheric'.

#tool

Sound sequencer that everybody has acess to

#75

Authors: Patrick Borgeat

Every page visitor can edit the sequence in real time. Website provides a localization of each user as well.

#DIY #realTime #sequencer

Sounds map, but an open source one

#76

Authors: AudioCommons

Map of categorized sounds. Helpful for finding alike sounds and exploring them.

#FreeSound #openSource #sequencer

Sounds map made by Google

#77

Authors: Google Experiments Team

The map is sorted and categorized with use of AI, that processed only raw audio. User can play a sequence of selected sounds.

#AI #bigTech #sequencer

Soundtrap

#78

Authors: Soundtrap company

Online DAW that has many paid plans (that offer more functionalities), but can be used for free to record some audio or MIDI tracks and add some effects. It offers many options of realtime collaboration and learning music production.

#commercial #DAW #tool

Spectrum spectogram

#79

Authors: Matt DesLauriers

Simple spectogram tool to visualize the music or sound of user choice.

#DIY #openSource #tool #visual

Suite no. 1 in G major, BWV 1007, J.S. Bach

#80

Authors: Alexander Chen

Interactive app that shows consequent notes as strings based on mathematical links between the strings' length and the sound's pitch.

#classical #DIY #forKids #math #physic #reconstruction

“Synaesthesia” - Generate random music

#81

Authors: wheelibin

Literally just generate random music, it's done really simply and clearly. Tho styles to choose from - funky down-tempo and ambient drone.

#DIY #noveltyArt #openSource

“Terrarium”

#82

Authors: Marpi, Bent Stamnes

Using simple tools Marpi created a procedurally generated environment populated with creatures. Alongside, there's ambient music generated in real time. The user can click, generating sounds, or generate the environment again by clicking a certain weird item in the middle.

#ambient #marpi #noveltyArt #visual

Terry Riley's 'In C'

#83

Authors: Tero Parviainen

Audiovisual interpretation of classical generative music piece.

#classical #DIY #openSource #reconstruction

19 TET keayboard demonstration

#84

Authors: Ed Ball

A simple demonstration of how would an octave sound like when divided into 19 equal parts instead of the usual 12. A welcome explanation of the music theory behind it is included.

#descriptive #learn #math

The Beat Machine

#85

Authors: Joseph Savell

The site greets the user with a crystal clear and well thought-out interface: first the user picks the source material from their hard drive or they provide a link to a song on YouTube. Next they pick the tempo and effects. Finally we get a track rendered based on rhythm changes defined by us.

#composing #DIY #openSource

Theremin

#86

Authors: Luke Phillips

Simple implementation of classic theremin intrument. It has nice graphical user interface.

#DIY #openSource

The Wub Machine

#87

Authors: Peter Sobot

Super simple app. User has only to upload a song and choose a musical genre of song remix that will be created. Works surprisingly well on songs tested by us.

#DIY #mustCheck #openSource

Typatone - Type sounds

#88

Authors: Lullatone

Every letter input corresponds to a sound. Users can paste in messages, type something in, or send someone a musical message.

#DIY

Unending stream of black metal

#89

Authors: Dadabots

It has been streaming on YouTube for a couple of years now, never before recorded, AI generated, heavy as hell.

#AI #noveltyArt #reconstruction

WolframTones - tool for creating music with use of algorithms

#90

Authors: Wolfram

User is asked to choose a style, instrument, tempo and other parameters. Music generation is based on cellural automata algorithm. Each unqiue combination has its URL address.

#composing #descriptive #math #mustCheck #tool

“28x28”

#91

Authors: Composed by Xavier Bonfill , Designed by Tony Martínez , Developed by Frederic Font

A room can be full of sounds, some from within, some from the outside, some that happen by choice, some that happen by chance. The possibilities of their combinations are almost endless, but all sounds can be put together and become music in our minds. 28x28 is a piece made of 28 fragments of 28 seconds each that are combined in a certain order according to a domino game. Nowadays, it feels like 28 seconds is a long time to be doing nothing but listening to a piece of music. However, 28 seconds are not enough even for replying to a text message or checking your Facebook feed.

#DIY #FreeSound #noveltyArt

“Yume”

#92

Authors: Luke Twyman

YUME is an interactive web experience created to promote the album 'Yume' by ambient artist Helios. Floating rock shards become tactile music controllers, which also manipulate the environment. Different scenes can be freely explored, each one with a different feel/sound.

#DIY #noveltyArt #openSource #visual