Friday, February 2, 2007

Aaron Siegel's Two-Dimensional Audio Mixer

Two-Dimensional Audio Mixer is a flash based experimental audio mixer piece where user can control and compose techno music by dragging different elements within the project. Simple circle are placed on the stage for users to interact and select the amount of bass, lead, kick, snare and hihat within the piece. For instance, when a user drag the bass circle closer to the large volume circle, the sound gets louder or vice versa.

User has full control over how loud each of the elements to fit their taste. Imageries of this piece are simplistic: simple circle shapes with basic colors. When you drag one of the circle icon closer to the main target-board-like-volume-control, the icon becomes bigger and more color intense, the sound will correspondingly gets louder. Once a user create a techo composition, he also creates a piece of visual art accordingly to how his music represents.

I am very impressed with the idea that visual art ties tightly with audio art. I wish there is a way in this project that I could choose the speed of the beat and I'd also like to see the imagery to be animation based on the tempo of the music.

Here is the project link http://www.datadreamer.com/2daudio/projecttwo.html

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