The
WebPlayer is a Shockwave app that turns a web page into music by converting the HTML into numbers and then running that through formulas developed by
Arnold Schoenberg, who came to be known as the inventory of atonalism in music, and influential in
serialism, which aims to produce music by controlling aspects of the music with number series. Don't expect Beethoven, but sometimes the output is nice.
The Google front page produced a pretty soothing bit of background sound the first time I tried it, but the next, it sounded like several other pages I tried. Some explanation for this and the choice of a single sound can be found in the informative critique.
posted by Su
on Jul 18, 2002 -
9 comments
The
Try Group's site uses a simple Flash "game" to deliver their central idea: that children should be encouraged to look at the world in different ways. There's a little
more info at the developer's site.
Neat concept, and also just fun to poke around in for a little while.
posted by Su
on May 2, 2002 -
6 comments
Ever since installing the latest version of the Flash Player, I've been having problems with the sound continuing if I exit the movie, or close the browser window, until I completely kill the program by closing ALL open browser windows. Well, the problem has been
formally acknowledged, though Macromedia is being weird about doing something about it.
posted by Su
on Apr 3, 2002 -
22 comments
