Category Archives: Experiments with audio

Experiments with audio, conclusion

I’ve been working with an amazing group of web, audio, and Mozilla developers on a project to expose audio data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio and video elements. Today those experiments are over. In December a few of us working on processing.js had an idea–what if we could visualize sound data coming out of an [...]
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Experiments with audio, part X

I’m working with an ever growing group of web, audio, and Mozilla developers on a project to expose audio data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio and video elements. Today we show you how much JavaScript can really do. Since my last post, quite a few new people have joined our group, a lot has changed in [...]
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View Source as Musical Innovation

I’ve been interested to watch the flood of reactions around the web to our latest demos and audio experiments.  Here are a few: Al MacDonald lays out a history and potential future for our work Article in Create Digital Music, “Real Sound Synthesis, Now in the Browser; Possible New Standard?” Post on Wired’s WebMonkey blog, “New HTML5 Tools [...]
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Experiments with audio, part IX

I’m working with an ever growing group of web, audio, and Mozilla developers on a project to expose audio spectrum data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio and video elements. Today we show what we did at www2010. I’m in Raleigh, North Carolina, with Al MacDonald for the www2010 conference.  We’re here to present [...]
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Things then and now

I wrote a letter to my grandmother a little while ago.  I was partly reminded of the need for such writing by Luke, but also I had wanted to connect some of my current work with my past.  Yesterday my grandmother was here visiting, and she took me aside just before she left.  “I have [...]
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Experiments with audio, part VIII

I’m working with an ever growing group of web and Mozilla developers, along with some talented audiophiles, on a project to expose audio spectrum data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio and video elements. Today we bring out the demo reel. Last time I wrote about our success getting the browser to make dynamically generated sound.  Since [...]
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Experiments with audio, part VII

I’m working with a group of web and Mozilla developers, along with some talented audiophiles, on a project to expose audio spectrum data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio and video elements. Today we teach the browser how to sing. Our experiments to expose audio data to JavaScript have really started to get exciting.  Since I [...]
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Experiments with audio, part VI

For the past month I’ve been working with some audiophile friends on a project to try and expose audio spectrum data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio element.  Today I finally have something more than raw numbers to show off. When I last wrote about our experiments with the <audio> element in part V, I had successfully [...]
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Experiments with audio, part V

I’m working on a project to try and expose audio spectrum data from Firefox’s audio element.  Today I ponder arrays and fix some things. Today is my last day of work before the Christmas break begins, and I just submitted my final grades.  This gave me a little bit of time to rewrite some of my [...]
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Experiments with audio, part IV

I’m working on a project to try and expose audio spectrum data from Firefox’s audio element.  Today I get raw data into the browser. This blog post was going to be very different than the one you see now.  That’s because our DOM code kicked my ass all day yesterday and into the night.  I stopped [...]
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