Recent Projects in Music Machines-2954

Bugs on Bottles

Inspired by Chalkmarrow's Entophone with ideas taken from Wodunne's Scratch Keyboard This project shows two bugs randomely drop onto bottles filled with water. To fill a bottle more double click the background and hold down the mouse above the bottle. To empty a bottle simple click on it. See how the differing instruments and note lengths affect the sounds produced.

Rhythm & Blues

This project makes a solo instrument improvise randomly along a twelve bar blues chord progression with a straight back beat and a boogie-woogie bass line. It's another customizable one-sprite composer. You're welcome to reuse it to add endless background music to your projects by exporting / importing it and by adjusting the variables to your preferences. Have fun! - Jens

A Little Music

- experimental - Funny & strange: works currently *only* correct online (!). This project features a customizable one-sprite composer. You can reuse it to add endless random symphonic background music to your projects. Here's how: Export the 'music' sprite, and import it into your own project. That's it! You can also adjust all settings to make it fit your own preferences: - speed: beats per minute. - beats (per measure): 2 (slow march) 3 (waltz) 4 (swing). - complexity: enables / disables complex chords. - instruments: for orchestration. The music sprite is my shot at a minimal random harmonic composer. It needs no global variables and uses just one single broadcast message. Have fun! - Jens

Instruments

This project is an add-on package for 'Combo' and 'Composer'. It is not meant as a stand alone project, but as a sprite quarry for your own harmonic music projects. It features three additional instruments: Strings, Clarinet and Violin. Clicking on each instrument turns it off / on. You're invited to reuse and modify everything. have fun! -Jens

Composer

This project lets you compose your own harmonic music in a very simple way: There's a staff of ten interlocking blocks. Click on the first one to choose a key for your song. Then click on the following blocks to set each chord in functional notation. If your sequence needs less than eight measures click on the following block to turn it into a repeat sign. That's it! Now you can transpose your whole song to another key just by clicking on the key block. Click on the reader to pause. Click on it again to resume. If paused, you drag the reader to any position desired. Click on repeat to move the reader to the beginning. Click on the colored dots on the bottom to toggle between waltz and swing measures. Use the slider on the bottom to slow down / speed up your music. Click on each instrument to turn it off/on. Click on the quill to cycle through other (random) music generation modes (your composition doesn't get lost). Click on the conductor's hand to let the project randomly cycle through all of its features... have fun! -Jens

Entophone

ENTOPHONE Ladybugs avoiding water droplets on electric guitar strings.

Bouncing Balls with Soundcolors

Bouncing Balls with Soundcolors is a much enlarged version of: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Canthiar/7369 by Canthiar You now have colors an sounds and many parameters to play with: Up / Down = -/+ Gravity Left / Right = -/+ Emitter Speed B / A = -/+ more Balls 1 = switch Edges 2 = switch Turn Effect 3 = switch Random 4 = switch Drawing 5 = switch Sound Space = start Balls again DragDrop Collision Objects DragDrop Balls DragDrop Emitter Turn Emitter by pulling it's tip H = Help (english) G = Help (german) Chantiers original description: You can move the object emitter around with the mouse and change the direction by clicking on the pointed end. This is what I consider a production version since I've inlined a few things. I have a more academic version that is a little easier to read. The whole thing is also dumbed down a little to make the math a little easier. How it works: When a ball encounters a collision object it uses the [ point towards[ Collision ] ] command block and then uses sin and cos to calculate a colliion normal. That normal is used to calculate a resulting velocity perpendicular to the surface and velocity tangent to the surface. Friction and restitution are applied to make the ball bounce.

spinning drum mashine

Spinning Drum Machine is a funny work of Art with colors sounds.

Sounds Of Gravity

Work of Art to play with The Gravity Blocks produce funny sounds while bouncing between the different centers of gravity. Make the edges or circles to centers to Gravity Centers by clicking it. Shift the Gravity blocks from the blue to the white area to activate or deactivate them. If you don't move the gravity centes or blocks, the system will do it for you every 10 seconds. Use Cursor keys to change the size of the objects. Use Space to get new Blocks with differnt sound and colors. Use the 1 2 Key to have a spinning antigravitation beam "Sounds Of Gravity" was inspired by Jay's "Gravity Blocks" at: (link to project) Now (1.June07) it also got the better "sprite moving" method of (link to project)

Dance of the Suns

Dance of the Suns is a work of Computer Art Only the Start Configuration is set up by Random. Everything else is determinated. There are lots of parameters at the stage, that you can play around with if you download it.

Combo

This project produces random rich harmonic music. Just listen to it, or: Click on the conductor's hand to turn automatic feature cycling on/off. Click on each instrument to turn it off/on. Change the speed using the slider on the bottom. Click on the metronome to switch between random intervals and ordered measures. Click on the beat-dots to toggle between 3/4 and 4/4 measure. Click on the graph-curve to choose melody patterns. Click on the note symbol to toggle between rich chromatic (jazzy, red), structured diatonic harmony (green, fewer chord forms, romantic), or editor (quill, lets you define your own chord sequences). Chromatic mode alternates random chords/forms/ornaments displaying standard chord notation. For melodies it only uses harmonic notes. Diatonic mode shows chords in functional notation, improvises 4 sequences of random structured cadences consisting of 4 measures each, and then modulates to a different key alternating major/minor. For melody it uses the full diatonic gamut. Composition mode lets you arrange a staff of music consisting of up to eight measures of functional chords. Click on the 'measure blocks' to cycle though the available symbols, choose 'repeat' where you don't need any further measures. Click on the reader to pause. Click on it again to resume. If paused, you drag the reader to any position desired. Click on repeat to move to the beginning. have fun! -Jens

electric_piano

This is a minimal 3-octave electric piano, using just one sprite and 3 scripts. It can easily be customized and incorporated into larger projects. I took the photos of the keyboard myself, so they are copyright-free.

polyphonic_piano_with_arrows

This is a polyphonic 3-octave electric piano, using a keyboard sprite plus one sprite per simultaneous note (currently 4 are allowed, but that is very easy to change). It can easily be customized and incorporated into larger projects. I took the photos of the keyboard myself, so they are copyright-free. This version has fading arrows that indicate which keys were pressed. Holding the mouse down will not auotrepeat, unless the mouse is moved.

one-sprite composer

This project composes music on a C-major scale using a single sprite and is intended for inclusion in other projects. Space to start. S to stop. The "synchronize to beat" message is sent once per beat to be used for controlling dancers or other scripts. External controls are instrument number (what instrument to play) sustain duration (how long to hold notes) beat duration (how long the longest note lasts)

Ball Music

Press S to stop and play your own music Press Space to see musical pattern Press up arrow clear musical pattern Press Flag again to change musical pattern I didn't copy jesimone he is my dad and i came up the idea he helped me and he came up with his idea and finished it before me