whitney music box - var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines
in three minutes, the largest dot will travel around the circle once, the next largest dot will travel around the circle twice, the next largest dot three times, and so on. the dots are arranged to trigger notes on a chromatic scale when they pass the line the music was generated using my own syd synthesis software, the animation was programmed in Processing
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A musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book "digital harmony"
Animation and music by Jim Bumgardner of krazydad.com and the wheel of lunch. Jim makes free puzzles, including sudoku, killer sudoku, kakuro, mazes, and thousands of other
puzzles.
Music box variations:
var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines var. 1 - harmonics of 55hz var. 2 - harmonics of 20hz var. 3 - harmonics of 48hz, reversed var. 4 - harmonics of 48hz, palindrome var. 5 - chromatic - 88 tines var. 6 - microtones var. 7 - harmonics - 120 tines, reversed var. 8 - chromatic - 88 organ pipes, rev. var. 9 - chromatic - 88 bars, rev. var. 10 - chromatic - 64 pipe crypto calliope var. 11 - minute waltz - 60 keys, 60 seconds var. 12 - chromatic - prime numbers only var. 13 - chromatic - non-primes only var. 14 - stereo var. 15 - stereo - 120 var. 16 - stereo - 210 var. 17 - hand cranked var. 18 - stereo drone var. 19 - stereo sonar var. 20 - bell carol
Whitney Music Box by Jim Bumgardner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
More detailed information can be found in this post
Here is a git repository of sample source code / reference implementations in a variety of languages,
including Flash/Actionscript,
ChucK,
Pure Data (PD),
SuperCollider,
Nyquist,
pyo,
Processing,
Perl,
and Syd.
You'll also find MIDI files in there. Email me if you'd like to contribute.
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