I’d like to create a site for networked sound production using tone.js, with the idea that a user could manipulate various inputs (numeric values and buttons would be easy, but I’d like to learn how to integrate sliders and other graphic controls?) which would run through firebase to produce output(sound) for all users. I’m a little cautious with this idea as I’d figured that tons of versions of this already existed but I haven’t been able to find anything yet, and definitely not in a more critical/art context?
That’s my other concern, that it doesn’t have enough of an obvious critical component and can easily be viewed as pretty straightforward entertainment. But as I’ve mentioned in other contexts, I’m tired of [making] work that is so inaccessible (intellectually, spatially, however) as to essentially reinforce status quo by preaching to the same small choir or by being unusable in everyday life. I’m not using this an excuse to go lightweight on theory though, only to explain that there might be a kind of seductive facade.
I see the theory in this being related to the homogenization of music in general through web-based platforms like spotify, where we have the illusion of ‘curating’ our own tastes but really we are selecting off of an increasingly limited top-down menu. On top of the corporate stuff, I’m finding (as someone no longer in niche music scenes) it increasingly rare/difficult to encounter sounds that sound different, on a purely formal level, from everything i hear all the time. Maybe this is a cliche old-guy-vinyl argument, maybe not?
Various points of reference for different reasons:
https://tonejs.github.io/ (three examples below)
http://nexusosc.com/gameofreich/
https://celanajaya.github.io/vGamelan/
https://tothepoweroftom.github.io/xysynth/
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/isochronicBrainwaveGenerator.php
http://weatherwarlock.com/ (from quintron & miss pussycat)