Category Archives: Experiments with audio

No Comply Documentary

Mozilla shot a short documentary with our #audio team about the No Comply demo we built for the launch of Firefox 4.  It was fun to get everyone together (we missed Al that day, but the rest of us were there) for the day.  If you wonder who I work with to build all this [...]
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Firefox 4, bring the noise!

Today is the launch of Firefox 4.  If you’re using an older version of Firefox, you can simply ask it to Check for Updates, and you’ll get a shiny new browser.  There’s a ton of great stuff in this release, but three things in particular excite me. The first is the incredible work that’s been done [...]
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JavaScript Typed Arrays

One of the things we use a lot in our audio and canvas demos and libraries, is Typed Arrays.  A typed array looks and feels a lot like a native JavaScript array, but for situations where your data is uniform, and of the same type (cf. buffers of sound or pixels), using a typed array [...]
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On the web as soundscape

One of the things I love about twitter is the very thing that so many point to as its great weakness, namely, that everything gets boiled down to something so short it can’t help be lack for content.  When people say this, they imagine that we always talk about something for which the content is [...]
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sfxr.js: sound for open web games

Last week Mozilla Labs announced its Game On competition, a contest “all about games built, delivered and played on the open Web and the browser.”  The open web platform has got a lot to offer game developers these days.  I’m hoping that some people will enter processing.js based games (version 1.0 [...]
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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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