whitney music box - var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines
in three minutes, the largest dot will travel around the circle once, the next largest dot will travel around the circle twice, the next largest dot three times, and so on.
the dots are arranged to trigger notes on a chromatic scale when they pass the line
the music was generated using my own syd synthesis software , the animation was programmed in flash actionscript
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music box variations:
var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines var. 1 - harmonics of 55hz var. 2 - harmonics of 20hz var. 3 - harmonics of 48hz, reversed var. 4 - harmonics of 48hz, palindrome var. 5 - chromatic - 88 tines var. 6 - microtones var. 7 - harmonics - 120 tines, reversed var. 8 - chromatic - 88 organ pipes, rev. var. 9 - chromatic - 88 bars, rev. var. 10 - chromatic - 64 pipe cyrpto calliope var. 11 - minute waltz - 60 keys, 60 seconds var. 12 - chromatic - prime numbers only var. 13 - chromatic - non-primes only var. 14 - stereo var. 15 - stereo - 120 var. 16 - stereo - 210 var. 17 - hand cranked var. 18 - stereo drone (new) var. 19 - stereo sonar (new) var. 20 - bell carol (new)
a musical realization of the motion graphics of john whitney as described in his book "digital harmony"
animation and music by jim bumgardner of krazydad.com and coverpop.com
more detailed information can be found in this post
sources: actionscript , syd , ChucK , perl , nyquist , p5 , midi , swf
more toys by jbum: colrpickr , coverpop ,
wheel music ,
mindpower , ascii cam