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
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.
Authors: Evan Feenstra
Works well on mobile devices, allows to create synthesizer voices and use FreeSound samples.
Authors: Stuart Keith
This one on the other hand lets you sample tracks from freesound and souncloud.
Authors: Stuart Keith
This time it's based on polirhytms and parameter randomization. Neat to experiment with.
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.
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.
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Free DAW made in old technology, Flash, that is no longer maintained.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 It is no longer maintained at least from 2014.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authors: Brian Foo
Create new music by blacking out notes from public-domain classical piano pieces — remaining notes collapse into a new composition.
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.
Authors: Tero Parviainen
A simple app that takes audio material and creates glitchy rhythmic variations based on it.
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.
Authors: Brian Foo
App that lets users create beats out of the Library of Congress' catalog.
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.
Authors: Ludovic Riffault
Visualization and sonification of noise pollution in daily commutes. Explore ambient noise from subway journeys as waveforms and listen to an algorithmically generated melody.
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.
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.
Authors: Tero Parviainen
App generates a melody based on the user's stance seen through his camera.
Authors: Alex Bainter
Corruption Loops is a page written by Alex Bainter which generates a unique music piece and the deconstructs it.
Authors: Tero Parviainen
Simple app that generates certain progressions client-side. We recommend setting a mellow tempo and clicking around - really relaxing.
Authors: Brian Foo
Beatbox with historical speech — turn phonemes from public-domain recordings into kicks, snares, and hi-hats.
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.
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.
Authors: Tero Parviainen
Well known work of Erik Satie visualized by the graphs, where each unique note is represented by verticle.
Authors: Tero Parviainen
But with nice animations and lightweight sounding.
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.
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.
Authors: AudioCommons
Explore the infinite cosmos with sounds taken from the freesound library as stars.
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.
Authors: The Pudding
About your geographic music bubble — the hits that dominate nearby, and the ones that are huge far away from you.
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.
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.
Authors: Ed Ball
Browser based synth that lets users play sound using their keyboard or by clicking the screen. Has some eerie visuals.
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.
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.
Authors: Matt McCorkle
Fun app based on Sam Reider's 'The Skeleton Rag'.
Authors: Google Experiments team
Be an orchestra conductor with use of your camera.
Authors: Vivian Li
How animal sounds differ across languages — comparing onomatopoeia like meow, moo, and oink through IPA and audio.
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.
Authors: Michelle Pera-McGhee
How musicals use short, recurring musical ideas — motifs — to tell stories, with interactive charts from Wicked, Hamilton, and Les Misérables.
Authors: The Pudding
How sonic “DNA” connects generations of music — the hidden history of samples, genres, and influence across eras.
Authors: Alexander Chen
Each crossing of underground's route is interpreted as a string sound, so all lines create an composition.
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.
Authors: Matt Daniels
A listening quiz on generational gaps in music — which hits you still know, and which have faded from cultural memory.
Authors: Qosmo
Select any place from map or upload the image and wait for AI to find a sound that describes input the best.
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.
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
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.
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.
Authors: Tero Parviainen
Another one of Tero's hard to explain, but very relaxing apps. Enjoy.
Authors: Maximillian Laumeister
Each action based on bitcoin is interpreted by sound in real time.
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.
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.
Authors: Google Experiments Team
Given two different melodies, AI merges them together, creating a new one melody line.
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'
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.
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.
Authors: Brian Foo
Online tool for conjuring musical patterns hidden in old alchemist texts.
Authors: Ales Tsurko
In real time the page picks a couple of random articles and interprets a string of characters as musical sequences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authors: Lullatone
Bank of sounds and animations, that can be played with computer keyboard (you can just start rhythmically typing when page is loaded).
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.
Authors: Marpi, Stand & Marvel, Huncwot, Garrett Bradley
The page generates music with attractive visuals. Simple, but well made and interactive.
Authors: YenTing Lo, Vanja Mrgan, Ferran Bertomeu Castells
Music album made as an interactive game. Currently it has two songs, more to come.
Authors: Stuart Keith
In general it's a development of his previous ideas. Try clicking random and listen to different combinations
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.
Authors: Nikolay Tsenkov
A regular polyphonic synth inside the browser, that supports preset preloading and has a multitude of functions in general.
Authors: MetaBrainz
MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.
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.
Authors: Ferran Bertomeu
Having seven polyrhythmic sequences user has to complete puzzle shown on the top. Quite pleasant and challenging.
Authors: Jan Diehm, Michelle Pera-McGhee
Compare 138 U.S. National Anthem performances — a “Diva Score” measures how far each melody strays from the standard.
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.
Authors: Stuart Keith
Thanks to the nice user interface, it allows for creating songs really quickly.
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.
Authors: Alex Bainter
Simple tool that regenerates the given song with two effects added - slowed audio and reverb, making it more 'atmospheric'.
Authors: ehh hahah
Listening game about spotting background sound pollution. Pick audience groups with unique effects, listen to random ambience for a timed window, then guess what you heard in 10 seconds — quieter sounds score more, wrong answers cost points. Warning: sounds can be very loud or very quiet.
Authors: Patrick Borgeat
Every page visitor can edit the sequence in real time. Website provides a localization of each user as well.
Authors: AudioCommons
Map of categorized sounds. Helpful for finding alike sounds and exploring them.
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.
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.
Authors: Matt DesLauriers
Simple spectogram tool to visualize the music or sound of user choice.
Authors: Alexander Chen
Interactive app that shows consequent notes as strings based on mathematical links between the strings' length and the sound's pitch.
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.
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.
Authors: Tero Parviainen
Audiovisual interpretation of classical generative music piece.
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.
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.
Authors: Luke Phillips
Simple implementation of classic theremin intrument. It has nice graphical user interface.
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.
Authors: Lullatone
Every letter input corresponds to a sound. Users can paste in messages, type something in, or send someone a musical message.
Authors: Dadabots
It has been streaming on YouTube for a couple of years now, never before recorded, AI generated, heavy as hell.
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.
Authors: Michelle Pera-McGhee
An exploration of rhythm and grooves that break the rules — from straight and swing to Dilla Time.
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.
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.