From the man himself:

This is a series of visuals I created for a party organized by Tool in February. They were projected on a wall and guests could interact with them using a Leap Motion device.

From the looks of his code (which is open sourced here) it looks like Bartek challenged himself to use as few libraries as possible in the build. I’d love to see a writeup from him outlining his creative and decision-making process.

More and more it seems web technologies are being seen as viable options to lower-level creative coding frameworks. So, so cool!

Sound Viz by Bartek Drodz

Bouncy Balls is a fun new browser toy from Paul Neave that’s perfect for your Friday afternoon. Bounce balls, bubbles, eyeballs and more around your screen with your mouse or by tilting your phone. There’s even a microphone mode so you can set it to music or just shout at it a little for some stress relief if that’s the sort of day you’re having. Endless hours of fun

Bouncy Balls
from Paul Neave

Re-live your childhood Commodore64 days with this Chrome Experiment, WebSID. It uses the WebAudio API so all the sounds are generated, no samples here! Use the keyboard to play multiple notes at once and even transpose. It works on mobile too. It’s a Chrome Experiment, so your results outside of Chrome may vary, of course.

WebSID
From Igor Zinken

Drop is the latest experiment from Manny Tan on uncontrol using with Three.js, Web Audio and jstween. Dancing abstract shapes and meshes react to the audio track and your mouse movements on click or scroll. You get a slightly different view of the shapes depending on which part of the screen it moves into when you move it around and change the zoom.

To see how the final piece took form, check out the 24 earlier iterations linked on the left. Some of the earlier ones include controls for you to explore further. I especially like the story behind the inspiration and early sketches, including an early model made with bendy straws

Drop Experiment
Drop Experiment post
By Manny Tan

We do love to keep our word so, as promised, here’s the next part of our series of tutorials on the Web Audio API.

This time we have a go at moving the sound around and eventually sticking it in a dustbin. It’ll all make sense once you’ve read it.

If you haven’t already, read through part one

New to our resources section, we bring you the first part of a series of guides to the Web Audio API.

Spectrascade is an interactive, tunable WebGL music visualisation project that takes inspiration from both HelloEnjoy’s Lights, and the fun music game Auditorium. (check out both, if you haven’t already!)

The running visualisation can be manipulated using the mouse (both buttons) or tweaked via a myriad of parameters in the control panel.

Interestingly they chose to perform the audio analysis on the server side, with results streamed to the browser for visualisation. I can only presume that this was for performance… and to avoid some of the mess that is cross-browser HTML5 Audio.

The accompanying blog post details their implementation and plans for the future.

Spectrascade: a WebGL music visualisation game
Accompanying blog post
Lights
Auditorium

[UPDATE] it’s on Google Australia now and is to celebrate synth pioneer Bob Moog’s birthday, so should be coming to US / UK tomorrow.

There a rather fun little toy on the Japanese Google page today – an analogue synth emulator. I’m assuming that it uses the WebAudio API – it seems to fall back to a Flash object in FireFox. But go check it out for yourself.

Analogue synth on Google.jp

When you think of your computer talking to you it’s usually space aged computers and robots, or maybe Siri if you’re less imaginative. You probably don’t think of it happening in your browser, and especially not something made for JS1K.

Showing up the other sound generating entries, Mathieu Henri created this JS1K Speech Synthesizer for the contest. It’s a super simple speech synthesizer that “says” what you’re typing as you type, and then the whole line once you hit enter.

While it’s pretty amazing to see this done in your browser and at such a small file size, you’re not going to be able to use this for your next round of prank calls:

To go under 1K, I had to limit the synthesizer to two format filters using either a sawtooth or noise and discard plosive sounds. In other words I had to sacrifice quality a bit.

Either way, it’s very impressive! You can play the live demo , or check out the source and more on Matieu’s site.

JS1K Speech Sythesizer by Mathieu Henri.