Ok, so yesterday a friend of mine posted a link on my facebook page. A link to all round WONDEROUSNESS.
This is a website for the work of Andre Michelle, who I’m assuming is some kind of computer/science/music/design student.
The first one is called Tone Matrix. Here is a screen shot.
This is a sine wave synthesizer. Sounds complicated I know, but it’s really a little grid and every white square that you add (with just a click) inserts a tone into the matrix. The pitch depends on how high/low the square is on the vertical axis and the rhythm depends on where it is on the horizontal axis.
YOU SERIOUSLY NEED TO PLAY WITH THIS! It is so hypnotizing and amazing.
Here is another fun music maker! This one is aptly named Pulsate.
For this one, you click to create a circle which enlarges. When the circles bump against each other they make a tone and get smaller. The larger the circle the lower the tone. This one is more random, and sounds so amazing.
I love these sort of things. There are lots of different interactive activities on this website, as well as some great videos like this one.
You may or may not know that I have synesthesia, which is a neurological … I don’t really want to call it a disorder… that occurs when different parts of the brain talk to each other when they aren’t supposed to. So this is why I personify the days of the week and months of the year, and why I feel emotions as colours in my head and chest, and why I see flashes of light when I hurt myself or get really excited. Some synesthetes see sound as colour, and whenever I see sound coupled with visuals that match so perfect my brain honestly just SKITZES OUT. When I watching that video that I’ve linked to before, I honestly felt like I was going to have a seizure. In the best possible way.
Anyway. I hope that you go to this site and explore a little bit, because it contains all kinds of fabulousness.
If you’d like to know more about my synesthesia (personally) you can check out a piece of my writing here (which I hope to one day turn into a zine) and a piece of writing about me by my author friend Ryan here.
It’s bed time.
Good night.
xo C
