MetaFilter posts tagged with Flash and music

Anyone can make music.

empath — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:33:54 -0800

iNudge Is a software music toy that lets you create and share short snippets of music.

Musicartography

yiftach — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:01:38 -0800

A piano has 88 keys; Ohio has 88 counties. Cartographer Andy Woodruff noticed this fact while driving through Ohio to complete his Counties Visited Map, and decided, despite knowing nothing about music, to make a map based on this coincidence.

Make your own little songs about raindrops

acb — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:35:14 -0800

Lullatone are a half-Japanese, half-American duo based in Japan who make music that can probably best be described as twee folktronica; a recent EP of theirs is titled "Little Songs About Raindrops". And now, you can make your own with their Raindrop Melody Maker Flash web toy, which looks a bit like a pastel-coloured Tenori-On:

I can hear the purple!

schyler523 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:47:31 -0800

Friday Flash Fun: Music Catch 2, move your cursor around to collect objects. Yellow are good, Red are bad, and purple are special. After you've beaten all the levels, you can point the game toward any URL that ends in .mp3 to customize the music. The original music catch here previously.

The Turn - Fredo Viola

netbros — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:35:27 -0800

The Turn is the latest creation from multi-media singer/artist Fredo Viola. Using multi-track recordings of his voice in rich harmony, coupled with unusual video vignettes, The Turn [flash] offers a dozen performances of Viola's interesting integration of voice and visual artistry. His first album was just released this week on iTunes and includes works like The Sad Song.

Flash Friday: Auditorium

closetphilosopher — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:54:03 -0800

Auditorium is a musical flash game where you influence a stream of particles with gravity-based nodes. A steady stream of particles past a collector enables a layer of music. Good fun! Via Jay is Games

Like, OMIGOD!

carsonb — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:34:51 -0800

80smusicvids.com - Like totally bodacious collection of over 1000 music videos from like the raddest decade. Choice. Bonus, dude! Retro video games like flashacized.

Beat the monday doldrums

oxford blue — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:46:38 -0800

Monday got you stressed? Tired of all the politicking? Here's something to help you relax. Remember, just like real life, yellow is good, purple is gooder and red is bad.

Dance music toys: Get your cheese on.

nthdegx — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:18:49 -0800

Dance music toys. Get your cheese on. Via Music Thing.

What's that tune?

boo_radley — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:00:10 -0800

iden.tify.us is like AskMe, but only for the question, "Hey guys, what is this song?"

we know a place where no cars go

ZachsMind — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:35:20 -0800

"Not much chance for survival, if the Neon Bible is right." Presented by Arcade Fire which is a band that hails out of Montreal. Okay. So I'm easily entertained, but you will believe a turkey can roast marshmallows. Requires flash.

Roll Your Own Dylan

Dave Faris — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:30:27 -0800

Rewrite Musical History with the Dylan Sign Maker. (previously)

Notessimo: Quick and easy flash music creator

Kattullus — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:34:55 -0800

Notessimo is a quick and easy flash music creator. Lots of different instruments to choose from. You can even share your ~~ear-piercing horrors~~ soulful tunes!

Lodger

kisch mokusch — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:53:23 -0800

www.lodger.tv, the official website of the Finnish band Lodger (wikipedia, myspace), best known for their flash videos about love, death, crime and sex. I love death (flash) has been mentioned previously, but look out for God has rejected the western world (flash) and 24h candy machine (flash). They also made a video (flash) for LeLabo Fragrances, set to the tune of 24h candy machine. All flash movies are NSFW with music, same goes for the myspace link.

P-Funk. Uncut Funk. The Bomb.

LinusMines — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:55:55 -0800

The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership First, there comes the Brides, followed by stretchin' out with Casper the Holy Ghost and some Horny Horns. Next, with people standing on the verge, the Wizard of Woo opens the Maggot Brain. A devil-dance later, all are witnesses to The Landing. The recovery of funky stuff commences, and the mother is summarily turned out, with subsequent damage to the roof. (YouTube)

Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, by Ludwig van Beethoven

crunchland — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:28:12 -0800

Explore Beethoven's Eroica Symphony [note: flash, sound]

That sounds colorful...

loquacious — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:44:41 -0800

The John Whitney Music Box Variations are (currently) 17 nifty Flash sound/color objects based on the harmonics and algorithmic animation work of John Whitney, from the same fine fellow who brought us CoverPop and ColrPickr.

Radio Sherpa

srboisvert — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:52:17 -0800

Radio Sherpa We show you what is playing on your favorite radio station right now. If you see a song or program that you like, just click on the album art to make your selection. You can play the song, learn more about the artist or song, or even buy it. Only in Boston at the moment.

Dub Selector

Bugbread — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:44:38 -0800

Dub Selector - a flash based dub...sampler toy thingie. 9 tracks to play with.

The Interweb Medley

divabat — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:33:03 -0800

The Interweb Medley!! What happens when you mix up some of the more well-known Internet memes around? Madness.

It's a bird, it's a plane...

NationalKato — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:45:36 -0800

The Format. Indie pop and flying dogs.

Inner City Youth, London

tpl1212 — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:24:34 -0800

Inner City Youth, London "In 2002, Simon Wheatley began photographing London's publich housing developments...and was able to obtain a level of intimacy with his subjects that provides a true picture of the daunting project of growing up in the intimate confines of drug use, societal neglect, and poverty." This (Flash-based) narrated slideshow features Wheatley's work, and is a look at the culture...and also the music (grime) "as an artistic response to the place and circumstance, an expression of the violence, bleakness, and neglect..." (via Future Feeder)

Like pandora.com but with a graphical interface

crunchland — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:43:08 -0800

MusicLens enables users to find pieces of music using very vaguely described criteria, such as loudness (perceived volume), mood or purpose. The search or recommendations query can be enhanced or limited by adjusting the ten control sliders. Example : All slow titles by Madonna from the 90s that also sound sexy. (Note: FLASH)

Pianolina

jann — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:29:32 -0800

The Pianolina - an addictive flash game - is something like a cross between Pong and WolframTones. Brought to you by Grotrian, piano manufacturers since 1835, the pianolina visualizes musical notes as little squares that chime when they bounce against each other or against a wall. Its sophisticated interface lets you add chords, gravity, or start with the basic notes of well known compositions like Beethoven's "Für Elise".

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."*

Eideteker — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:06:42 -0800

MusicTheory.net - Posted in a comment here, I thought I'd give it an FPP considering it may have just saved my butt on an exam. MusicTheory.net is an excellent, step-by-step resource for students, amateurs, and aesthetes of all levels. The site is flash, but provides not only lessons but training sessions and other resources as well (including a staff paper generator).

For those who would like some other resources, ilearnmusic.com has lessons, including a section on Music Theory 101 (with a few nice links, as well). Dolmetsch online offers extensive information, including a section demystifying guitar tabs for those of us who don't play. And, of course, the wikipedia has a fairly extensive list of external links in their article, including several journals for those more advanced theorists out there. [*]