kristjan varnik
| Kristjan Varnik has been making sound with anything he can get his hands on for over ten years including records, tapes, synthesizers, circuits, computer code, and even real physcial instruments as well. | artist artist homepage |
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 ElectroComposer 5k is a Java applet that provides users the ability to create rhythms and edit sounds. It uses FM synthesis and a low bit rate to simulate the classic digital quality of early sound computers. ElectroComposer is aslo an experiment in viral marketing. After a user makes a pattern(a beat), the user can save that beat onto the server. A list of all the previous patterns is stored on the server. Additionally, when a user saves a beat, they notify their friends about the pattern via email. Their friend could visit the web site, hear the previously saved work, and edit it into a new creation. The project was born to try to create a minimal audio program with very low memory. I found that the simplest drum machines were often the most fun, and I wanted to create a community where users could easily share there work. It uses the undocumented Java APIs to create the audio. The sun.audio package allows for Digital Signal Processing to be performed at a low quality audio rate but in nearly real-time.The Applet interacts with server side scripts to save the data in a custom format. |
