pre-2004 Interactive audio for the Web

June 23, 2006

Type: discussion

Here are pre-2004 works of interactive audio for the Web that are still up:

JIM ANDREWS (Canada)
http://vispo.com/vismu
An assortment of interactive audio works.
DIRECTOR

PIANOGRAPHIQUE by Jean-Luc Lamarque (France)
http://www.pianographique.com
Keyboard controlled interactivity.
More on Lamarque at http://arteonline.arq.br/Paris/lamarqueenglish.htm (2003
profile).
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JASONFREEMAN.NET (USA)
http://www.jasonfreeman.net
Actually there are pre-2004 and post-2004 works here of great interest.
VARIOUS

GLASS ENGINE by IBM (USA)
http://www.philipglass.com/glassengine
Navigate the music of Phillip Glass by work, year, length, joy, sorrow,
intensity, density, and velocity; made by IBM.
JAVA

IXI SOFTWARE by Thor Magnusson (Iceland) and friends
http://www.ixi-software.net/content/software.html
A group collaborating on the creation of Shockwave technology and music.
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LECIELESTBLEU.COM by Frederic Durieu (France)
http://www.lecielestbleu.com
Many fantastic interactive works here, some focussing on audio.
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EKPUROSIS by Xavier Pehuet (France)
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/hollow
Ekpurosis is "universal regeneration"; many visual and auditory movements
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JAMES TINDALL (Britain)
http://www.atomless.com
Links to several Tindall projects such as thesquarerootofminusone and
mofidyme.
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P-SOUP by Mark Napier (USA)
Waves of interactive pure tones and colour/shapes.
http://potatoland.com/p-soup
JAVA

CTRALTDEL.ORG by Peter Luining (Netherlands)
http://www.ctrlaltdel.org
Peter Luining's site of Shockwave interactives; uses short sounds,
rectilinear graphics; many fine works.
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SOUNDTOYS.NET curated by Stanza (Britain)
http://www.soundtoys.net
An ongoing anthology of interactive audio works and a collection of writings
on sound. See also a profile of Stanza:
http://www.turbulence.org/curators/media2/stanza.htm
VARIOUS

MICHIEL KNAVEN (Netherlands)
http://www.michaelmedia.org
Tools and interactive audio/visual artworks.
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AUDIOGAME.NET by Marc Em (France)
http://www.audiogame.net
A suite of amusing audio toys.
FLASH

THE BLONK ORGAN (Netherlands)
http://www.jaapblonk.com/Organ/blonk/organpre.html
Japp Blonk is a sound poet and writer.
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PALL THAYER (Iceland)
http://this.is/pallit
VARIOUS

ERIC LOYER (USA)
http://www.marrowmonkey.com
Good use of sound for storytelling in 'The Lair of the Marrow Monkey', an
interactive narrative about Platonism in the digital.
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ELECTRICA by Gundula Markeffsky, Peter Huehlfriedel, Leonard Schaumann
(Germany)
http://www.electrica.de
If you can get this working, this is terrific. Uses the Beatnik plugin.
Supplies a link to an installable exe of the plugin, and requires Netscape
4. I installed the plugin and installed Netscape 4.72 but couldn't get it
working on my Windows XP system. But I tell ya this is/was one of the most
exciting interactive audio works for the Web. A crying shame it's so hard to
get working now!
BEATNIK/MIDI