This is based on the Japanese electronic instrument, Tenori-on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenori-on

Little Boots's cover of Hot Chip's Ready for the Fun is my current favourite example of Tenori-on music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6tLRCDqJ2c

That is absolutely beautiful. Can someone with more Theory knowledge comment on the relationship between squares? I can't seem to find a single ugly chord!

It's a D major pentatonic scale, I think.

as long as you follow some sort of scale harmony you wont get ugly cords.

and yes pentatonic scales are used a lot in eastern music so that will solve it. You only have 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th

A pentatonic scale such as the one in this app consists of scale degrees 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6.

For more information, see this series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpvfSOP2slk

Pentatonic scale is seriously cool (when do re mi so la) because you can combine any sequence of sounds and it always sounds good.

I've been writing a monitoring app whereby each system in our infrastructure has its own motif and when something happens it gets played on the monitoring box. At least.. that's the goal. Currently a stuck on the network protocol and generally frustated with lack of solid multiplatform sound options. Have been working in jython.

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What does this mean?

It's the musical pattern he made. Cut and paste he numerical string he has up there into the tone matrix app. Get a surprise.

So time sweeps from left to right. How about doing a Conway's Game of Life iteration after every time-sweep? You draw the initial pattern, then the CA generates subsequent patterns.

There's a Reaktor ensemble based on Life: http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=r5library&... (see "NEWSCOOL")

It doesn't sound too great actually, or at least it's quite obvious to the ear once you've heard it being used once. Fun to play with though.

awesome idea.

Black, empty screen here. (Firefox under Ubuntu)

Same, Safari in 10.5 --- Javascripters have to deal with graceful degredation / progressive enhancement, why not Flash?

It's not always possible in Flash, as SWFs published for newer players are sometimes completely incompatible with older versions of the player - usually it's done with JS on the page it's embedded on.

Besides, this is just an experiment - I bet you don't see those canvas demos taking these things into account!

This is one more reason that flash is bad. Adobe makes truly terrible software. Sure, it makes pretty images and stuff, but it's horribly written and architected.

Working fine on Debian Lenny 64bits with 32bits shockwave flash 10 r15.

Update Flash Player.

If you like generating and playing music this way, Brian Eno's $3.99 iPhone app Bloom is very similar. I was addicted to Bloom for a couple days.

http://gizmodo.com/5061004/brian-enos-bloom-raises-the-bar-f...

Paklsound1 (currently £1.19) is an even more similar iPhone app:

http://pakl.net/iphone/PaklSound1/

It would be great if someone were to bring the full feature set of the Tenori-on to software. It's a very cool tool, but the price is prohibitive for people who just want to experiment with music.

That's great for creating custom notification sounds for your app.

Even when using a program that randomly clicks on the flash it still sounds good: 0,208,1028,81984,264,5408,0,32784,65584,65808,264,0,81920,16448,49184,288

It's similar to Bloom, the popular iPhone app by Brian Eno and a devloper.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...

I'm lovin it.

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I was toying with some ideas like this for a toy design. this is rather elegant.

this is a performance art. a relatively simple an awesome addition would be something that would record a session and replay it.

then build a simple social net/comments ratings on sessions.

Reminds me of Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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I wish there was a way to save your patterns.

Right click and copy. You can then paste into a text editor.

Here's mine ~

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2217/boopt.png

You can copy a pattern. Just right click and copy.

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:D