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phon
phon
by orangutan chimpanzee orangutan gorillamonkey
Social, collaborative music synthesizer. Manipulate the particle grid to create crunchy rhythms. Inspired by particle accelerators and cellular automatons like Conway’s game of life.
Note: Incomplete – Only the “Lead” instrument produces sound. Other instruments will CRASH the application (refresh to start again). Global effects have no effect :(
Development has continued
Source is available at https://github.com/davidgovea/phon . Latest version available at http://phon-dev.no.de (Note: please judge against the entered version! Let us know if having this here is a problem :D )
Judging Instructions
Works best in Firefox 4+, or in Chrome with Web Audio enabled (navigate to about:flags to enable)
Instructions
- Click cells and select “Lead” to apply notes
- Drag diamonds to create reflectors
- Double-click reflectors to remove
Note: Incomplete – Only the “Lead” instrument produces sound. Other instruments will CRASH the application (refresh to start again) Global effects have no effect :(
Who
karlchod
meirchod
davidgovea — San Diego, CA
catshirt — Brooklyn, NY
How
jQuery, underscore.js, backbone.js, DAT.GUI, audiolib.js, Raphael, music.js, Express, coffee-script, socket.IO
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allancajudge
therazorbladejudgeThe concept is interesting and could be fun. Need better controls (it is a bit tedious adding sounds). Need a way to remove reflectors and probably better to start without any.
- contestant
fixed now – thanks!
- therazorbladejudge
Updated review.
timothytcleejudge
foxxtrotjudgeSeemed to crash on anything but the “Lead” effect, which you note (I would have rather nothing happened than the app just stop). It took me a bit to figure out what was going on, but once I did, I found this to be a lot of fun.
azukiwasher
contestant
ChungjudgeInteresting concept that I enjoyed playing (on Firefox). Also an innovative use of browser features to make this work.
I think if the application was more complete, there would have been more things to experience. I also don’t think I got a chance to experience the social element of phon.
jimfleming
contestantThis has a lot of potential. I’m glad ya’ll are continuing development.
Also, check out SoundManager2, it has Flash fallbacks for HTML5 audio.
sventuredjudgeInteresting concept. Assigning note by note is clumsy.
geradjudgeNice work on the browser detection front. Most people don’t get that level of completeness (but you lose some points because only the Lead instrument works). It looks really great, but I couldn’t figure out how to use it without reading the instructions above, so have to take away a bit for design. I could see it being a fun art project if I could figure out how to use it.
phillyqueso
contestant
Couldn’t get it to play for me, so I had a hard time figuring out what exactly it is. The idea of having a bunch of people create emergent sounds is pretty cool.