Synaesthetic Binaural Bassline Generator

Move fun that trying to create colour palettes, here is a sound palette creator. By using colours as the basis for sounds, this tool creates harmonic, and sometimes inharmonic basslines that modulate together to form a powerful binaural beat, and a series of grooving basslines.

A colour wheel is designed so that harmonic colour palettes can be easily found by placing the colours at set spacings around the wheel. The only real difference between sound and light is the speed and shape of the waveform, something that this instrument helps to bring back together. I was thinking of calling this kind of tool a synaesthesizer!

Sound Wheel

Instructions for use :

Double Click to add a new note and form a chord
Click anywhere black to remove a node (or right click)

Use the following keys to :
Z – Increase Intonation Range
X – Decrease Intonation Range
M – Change the next note’s Timbre
N – Change the next Timbre
UP – Move child chords closer to the centre
DOWN – Move child chords away from centre
LEFT – Change Variable Intonation (Microtonality Mode)
RIGHT – Change Variable Intonation (Microtonality Mode)

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Places talking about the SoundWheel :

• CNet
• Wired
• Think Design
• Elephant Candy

Space Mix

Tracklisting

1. Mr Fingers – Stars
2. Jeff Wayne – War of the Worlds
3. NASA – Symphony of the Planets 2
4. Vangelis – Blade Runner Blues
5. Arthur C. Clarke – Interview
6. Cybotron – Clear
7. Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Dolls’ Polyphony – Akira OST
8. Procul Harlem – Strangers in Space
9. John Carpenter – Darkstar OST
10. 2001 -  HAL 9000 (Excerpt)
11. NASA – Symphony of the Planets 4
12. Jeff Noon – Needle in the Groove
13. Ceephax Acid Crew – Northern Spirit
14. The Vulcans – Journey into Space
15. Sun Ra – Journey Through the Outer Darkness (part I)
16. Ry Cooder – El U.F.O Cayó
17. NASA – Symphony of the Planets 5
18. DJ Spooky – Twighlight Fugue
19. Sun Ra – Journey Through the Outer Darkness (part II)
20. Baby Mammoth - Moonburn
21. Marshall Chess – Interview
22. Kevin J Anderson – Hidden Empire
23. Symarip – Skinhead Moonstomp
24. Cowboy Bebop OST – Radio Free Mars Talk 1
25. Mike Ladd – Starship Nigga
26. Sun Ra – Journey Through the Outer Darkness (part III)
27. ESG – UFO
28. William Shatner – Rocket Man
29. The Time & Space Machine – The Trip
30. Death in Vegas – Neptune City (Concrete Funk Mix)
31. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Heart of Gold
32. The Halle Orchestra – Mars, the Bringer of War
33. Jerry Goldsmith – Metropia – Logan’s Run OST
34. Lonnie Liston Smith – Floating through Space
35. Kraftwerk – Spacelab
36. Dark City (Excerpt)
37. The Seatbelts – Cats on Mars (DMX Crew Remix)
38. Aliens (Excerpt)
39. RZA – Afro Droid Showdown II (Rap Suite)
40. Echospace – First Point of Aries
41. Killah Priest – Temple of the Mental
42. Scientist & Prince Jammy – Storming the Death Star
43. Basic Channel – Mutism
44. BBC Recordings – Daleks
45. Kool Keith – I’m Seeeing Robots
46. NASA – Symphony of the Planets 1
47. Brian Eno – Stars
48. Langley Schools Project – Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
49. Acid Mother Temples - Ange mzcanique de saturn
50. NASA – Original Moon Recordings
51. Farm Fresh – Space
52. NASA – Symphony of the Planets 3
53. David Bowie – Space Oddity
54. Cowboy Bebop OST – Radio Free Mars talk 7
55. Stereolab – Space Moth
56. Kevin J Anderson – The Ashes of the World
57. She Satelites – No Satellites
58. Anti-Pop Consortium – Tron Man Speaks
59. BattleStar Galactica (Excerpt)
60. Silver Apples – Oscillations
61. Add (N) to (X) – Robot New York
62. Alec Empire – Dreaming is a Form of Astrotravel
63. Cabaret Voltaire – Earthshaker
64. Brave New World –  Saga of the Seven Suns
65. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Also Sprach Zarathustra
66. Sun Ra – Journey Through the Outer Darkness (part IV)

Attention Deficit Collage

Tracklisting

1. Sam Cooke – Love Me
2. Nusrat Fateh Alleh Khan – Taa Dem
3. Zdzisław Piernik & Piotr Zabrodzki – Reorganizacja
4. Sahib Shihab – Om Mani Padme Hum
5. Shizuo – Sweat
6. New Strangers – Duelin’ Banjos
7. Cobra Killer – Lambretta Does it Better
8. The Fucking Champs – Lost
9. Tom Waits – Everything Goes To Hell Anyway
10. Gustav Holst – Uranus
11. Brathanki – Brathanki w Dyskotece
12. Scout Niblet – It’s All For You
13. DJ Scotch Egg – No Beats
14. Ilmaa Virtaa – Paavoharju
15. Бабслэй (Babslei) – Dear Sun
16. Jeff Mills – The Hacker
17. Kongar Ool Ondar – Fast Words
18. Aphex Twin – Didgeredoo
19. The Magic IDs – Loopstück
20. Nicolette – Nervous
21. Rachmaninov – Flight of the Bumblebees
22. NASA – Symphony of the Planets
23. Broke’n'English – Machester Shit
24. Jim Backus & Dennis Farnon – Magoo in HiFi
25. The Perceptionists – Let’s Move
26. Gene Coleman & Raed Yassin – A Funny Day in Moore
27. Es – Maailmankaari i
28. Chailla Babu OST – Pyar Chaiye Keh Paisa
29. Die Like A Dog Quartet – Little Birds have Fast Hearts
30. Dwayne Sodahberk – Partying Without Inhibition and Dignity
31. The Bug! vs The Rootsman – Killer feat. He Man
32. C-Mone – Stan Bak
33. Goretex – Earth Rot
34. Reefer Madness – Opening Fanfare
35. Betty Davis – This is It
36. Incredible Bongo Band – In A Gadda Da Vida
37. William S. Burroughs – Kill The Badger
38. Praxis – Animal Behaviour
39. Alarm Will Sound – Logon Rock Witch
40. DethKlok – ThunderHorse
41. Charles Bukowski – The Strongest of the Strange
42. The Andrew Sisters – Sabre Dance

Turns dreams into music

Ever wondered how your dreams sound? Ever wondered what your dreams would sound like if they had soundtracks? Wonder no longer with the dreamCapturer.

A USB product that accurately predicts your mood in realtime, creating a mood-mapped soundtrack of your sleep from your first dream through to the last.

With musical backing from members of the Hallé and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, thousands of mood instilling sounds were compiled together to form a database of samples capable of recreating any mood or emotion. From anger to happiness through to more obscure emotions such as ambivalence and angst.

With a fully animated graphic user interface designed in Flash, the dreamCapturer analyses your mood and represents it onscreen with character driven feedback. If you are stressed and your mood is a mixture of anger and rage, the onscreen character snarls and dips his eyebrows, if you are calm and happy, the onscreen character smiles and nods. Of course this is all in time to the music!

How it Works

Connect the dream quilt sensor to your thumb and click the big blue button. Immediately your ‘baseline‘ mood is being analysed. Over the space of a few minutes of constant use, the dreamCapturer learns what your normal mood is and begins the music process. As soon as you are calibrated, the dreamCapturer gets to work every tenth of a second recognising alterations and trends in your mood and looking for relevant sounds in its audio database.

The database is categorised into four channels of audio each with its own specific emotional fingerprint :
the first channel is the percussion where pace and action are described;
the second channel hosts the classical instruments which bring major and minor emotions;
the third is the bass where fear and sensitivity are shaped;
the final channel holds melody sounds and masked audio such as pink noise.

Once the dreamCapturer begins interpreting your emotions, it harmonises the four channels with relevant sounds all set to the BPM set by the percussion channel. If you are having a nightmare, prepare to hear some uncomfortable sounds… of course happy dreams are relaxed and enjoyable late night listening.

Depending on many parameters measured from your body (and not your brain!) the dreamCapturer recognises when you are falling asleep, and when you are awake and does a pretty good job of figuring out how many dreams you had in between! When you log back onto your computer in the morning you can check your emails, and now you can check your dreams-inbox as they are stored in the dream vault.

Technical details

1. USB 2.0 hot pluggable.
2. Uses GSR (lie-detectors) and body temperature to determine mood.
3. Fully animated GUI programmed in Flash. Realtime character representation of mood.
4. Low latency mood capture with accurate mood determination algorithms.
5. Audio samples from bin-aural to classical from well respected musicians, scientists and artists.
6. Save your dreams, banish your nightmares or email them to your friends.