sequencer
The Ambient Machine – Yuri Suzuki
Created by Yuri Suzuki in partnership with Pentagram Design, and currently available for purchase from E&Y, The Ambient Machine is a 32 toggle switch sequencer with a variety of sounds and music to design your own background ambience.
Secret Rhythms – Artificiel’s Three Pieces with Titles
“Three Pieces with Titles” is the latest audiovisual performance by Montreal’s artificiel. In it Alexandre Burton and Julien Roy manipulate an eclectic collection of objects within the field of view of a computer vision system to generate real-tim...
microscale – Hackable music album generated from random Wikipedia articles
Created by Belarusian composer Ales Tsurko, 'microscale' is a music album generated from random Wikipedia articles where letters are the sequencer steps and the track titles are regular expressions that switch the steps on and off.
Seaquence – Growin’ groove in a Petri dish
What if tweaking rhythm and melodic loops was like editing DNA? This is the question at the heart of Seaquence, a new iOS app by Okaynokay where you populate a Petri dish with ‘creatures’ that visually represent their sonic properties. A bold step...
School for Poetic Computation – Fall 2016 Final Showcase
In the final week of the last year's fall 10-week program at the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), students presented their work in progress and its underly ideas in a public showcase. Here is a selection of projects that were presented.
12 – Sound sequencer comprised of 12 digitally controlled music boxes
12 is a sound machine comprised of 12 custom built music boxes with specially tuned lamellae controlled by on/off switches and knobs.
Cycles 720 – Hybrid visual/audio sequencer by Craig Allan
Cycles 720 is an hybrid visual/audio sequencer by Craig Allan aka Numbercult where sound is dictated by properties of graphic elements.
Screen Capture to Sound – by Satoru Higa
Created using openFrameworks, this little app Satoru Higa uses screen capture as a music sequencer. Each time app is ran, the transparent window uses the desktop as the source for sound.
Circadia by Kurt Bieg – A constellation of colours seeking a rhythm – iOS
Created by Kurt Bieg, Circadia is a very simple, very tricky and exceptionally engaging little game created using openFrameworks. Each level in Circadia is a constellation of musical colors seeking a rhythm. To solve the puzzle you must figure out...
Mini-Composer [iPad, iPhone, Sound]
Karl Bartos (electronic musician, ex-Kraftwerk, co-composer of songs like The Robots, The Model, Computer World,…) and Masayuki Akamatsu (media artist and author of various iPhone apps) created a 16 step music sequencer now available for fre...
Donut [Sound, iPad]
Inspired by the IBM tape loop machine, Donut is the latest release from The Strange Agency. This sound sequencer is a strange one, like the old IBM machine, it makes time two-dimensional by first creating a three dimensional loop and two dimensio...
Hypertext Remix [Scripts]
Hypertext Remix is a browser-sequencer created by Lara Warman and Kellyn Loehr. The system generates systems sounds when the browser hits the edge of the screen. The speed of each box is set by the scroll bar and the sounds that are generated are ...
www [iPhone, iPad, Sound]
www is the latest iPhone application by Kazuyuki Okamoto (OKAHON), the name behind NNN Mono, Powon and iOSC, experimental sound applications for the iOS platforms. www is a new step, creating an abstract sound toy using strings/waves analogy as a ...
AV Clash [Flash, WebApp, Sound]
AV Clash is a Web-based project by Video Jack (André Carrilho and Nuno Correia, with Gokce Taskan) evolved AVOL – AudioVisual OnLine (2007), which allows the creation of audiovisual compositions, consisting of combinations of sound and audio-react...
Reactable Mobile [iPhone, iPad, Sound]
The reactable got it it’s start before the iPhone and iPad brought multitouch to the masses. It began as an experiment into new forms of computer interaction, both for music applications and multi-user, multi-touch applications in general. T...
Sound Yeah [iPad, Sound, openFrameworks]
Sound Yeah is the latest application currently in development by Henry Chu, the same name behind Squiggle we mentioned few weeks back. I asked Henry about the new app and this is what he said: In the beginning I wanted to create a digital toy to ...
Dmitry Fyodorov – Shapeless [iPhone, Sound]
Shapeless: The Drum Machine can be looked at two ways – one the one hand, it’s a drum machine with 10 different sample kits. On the other hand, it’s a new form of interactive album that is just starting to enter the collective co...
Kontrol [iPhone, Sound]
Kontrol is an experimental music toy by Johan Halin, a minimal techno composition where you control both the visuals and musical structure. The application was developed by Ab Parasol Oy. To make things happen, slowly push the blue buttons. I alwa...
Overbug [Processing, Java, Sound]
Created by Hiroshi Matoba, Overbug is a music-performance tool designed to compose Minimal and Dance Music. Through looping and newly arranging sound patterns, the program creates complex, polyrhythmic sounds. Overbug differs from conventional lin...
Nanoloop [iPhone, Sound]
Originally developed for Game Boy, Nanoloop music sequencer, synthesizer and sampler by Oliver Wittchow is now available for the iPhone/iPod Touch. First released in 1999, Nanoloop for the gameboy has attracted a great following and even though th...
Gliss [iPhone, Sound]
Gliss is new sound toy application which lets you play sound files and mix them easily by drawing on your iPhone. Play your mix using a tempo or scrub through by tilting your iPhone. Gliss allows you to improvise and perform using the iPhone as a ...
ShapeSeq [iPhone, Sound]
ShapeSeq is a wonderfully simple sound sequencer created by Paul Apfrod using openFrameworks. Primitive shapes represent four oscillators you can choose from. As each shape is moved around the screen, the pitch and volume moves with it. Every...
Rollycorder [iPhone]
JonBro aka (Jonathan Brodsky) has just provided a sneak peak of the new music app in the making.
SunVox [iPhone, Sound]
SunVox is a modular sequencing application that has been ported to almost every platform under the sun (sorry, terrible pun). It’s especially targeted to mobile platforms – in addition to working on Windows, Mac and Linux, it also work...
DopplerPad [iPhone, Sound]
Created by Retronyms, DopplerPad is an iPhone sound application that allows you to quickly create and perform musical hooks, phrases and loops with a variety of custom synth and sample-based instruments. DopplerPad offers a unique take on mobile ...
Jasuto [iPhone, Sound]
Jasuto is an iPhone music app (and a VST Plugin) that can rightly claim to be the first modular synthesizer on the platform. Jasuto lets you build your own patches or synths similar to how you would in Reaktor or SynthEdit, albiet in a much more s...
8Bitone [iPhone] – Closer Look
8Bitone is a Retro 8-bit Synthesizer + Sequencer for the iPhone and iPod Touch. On first glance 8Bitone looks like any other keyboard app for the iPhone. Within about 5 – 10 minutes of playing with some of my many options and settings , your...
Cells [Mac]
Cells is a sound sequencer that uses Conway's Game of Life to generate notes. Each box of each layer can be tuned to a collection of notes. The notes go from left to right, and are frequency modulated from top to bottom. Each layer has it's own se...