*** RECENT THOUGHTS: *** [REAL-TIME CONVERSION OF TWITCH CHAT INTO NOTATION] *** [PRIVATE MOMENTS IN PUBLIC SPACES] *** [RADICAL HAPPINESS] *** [IMMERSING A STRING QUARTET IN WATER, AGAIN, ALWAYS] *** [CORPUS-BASED CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS] *** [ORLANDO GIBBONS] *** [JAMES ACASTER] *** [LEARNING TO SING TENOR] *** [DAVID GRAEBER] *** [REPLACING SPOTIFY] *** [THE OVERSTORY] *** [RADIO CAROLINE] *** [ENDING COPYRIGHT] *** [SELF HOSTING A HOMELAB (REDUCING CLOUD DEPENDENCE)] *** [DAVID SHIELDS’ <EM>REALITY HUNGER</EM>] *** [CYBORG VIOLAS] *** [ADAM CURTIS] *** [BUILDING ASTABLE MULTIVIBRATORS] *** [ANIMATED MUSIC NOTATION] *** [MUSIC IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS] *** END OF TRANSMISSION ***

I’m a composer, viola player and artistic director from Dublin, Ireland. I also run Kirkos and do contract work as a computer music designer. Download and use anything you want from this site. Feel free to get in touch with questions! I also have A NEW BLOG!

tHaasX

(2023)

generative web browser music

A generative implementation of the famous and amazing THX deep note, where random voices convene on a major chord. I added extra overtones to make it sound like a G.F. Haas piece. With a multi-dimensional oscilloscope to represent the sound in coloured lines. Unique each time you run it! Implemented using WebAudio (actually the first experiment I ever made with WebAudio, a couple of years ago), and animated using the built-in FFT analysis from WebAudio, coupled with HTML Canvas (just did this part yesterday). Because there are a huge number of oscillators + all the FFTs, it's quite heavy...so it sounds prettier on a computer. I'm sure it would be possible to make a much more efficient version but I was more interested in trying out the visualisation this week than optimising the audio code!

Try it a few times! You can also layer multiple renditions on top of one another, as long as the computer can handle it!

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