Essay

visual acoustics


Out of all the sites that I went to, I thought that this one was the best as far as sound and graphics. Overall the look and feel of the site was more and important to me than the amount of fun that I had. It made me feel like I was doing something more important if it looked like the graphics had some eloquence behind them.

In visual acoustics you have several brushes / instruments that you can choose from: piano, violin, flute, guitar, harp, strings, upright bass, and tenor sax. Turning on the instruments and adjusting the variables of volume and delay adds an interesting mix for interactivity, although it took me a minute to figure out what the delay actually did,(if one delay is set to low it cuts off the other instruments that have delays set at a high number.)

The graphics emit from the mouse controller as you move over a color field that looks much like a color picker in Adobe, the graphics flow smoothly as the notes play from the points that your mouse hits on the grid.

It wasn't the most fun I had going through these sites but I felt like it was the best put together.