A digital orrery based on the theories of orbital math and music of the spheres by 15th century mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler. Pick any day and hear what the planets sound like as they move through space.
View ProjectAn aleatoric, algorithmic white noise machine that runs in a browser. The unpredictable sound of the wind over water is recreated using spacialization, multiple colors of noise, and sweeping high-pass filters.
View ProjectSize, color and placement of your 'crayon marks' creates a plucked piece of music. Take a turn coloring and listen to the sounds you've just designed.
View ProjectAn app that turns a video stream from your webcam that into Ascii art? Check.
View ProjectMaking clocks harder to read one bit at a time. A Google Chrome extension shows a simple binary clock on new tabs.
View Projectin.c recreates Terry Riley's seminal minimalist masterpierce 'In C' with the Web Audio Api. Originally built in collarboration with Dave Howell (howell.io) for an interactive performance on custom hardware (robot instruments) at an art show.
View ProjectJeffrey Pierce is a designer, technologist and audiophile living in Burlington, Vermont. By day, he directs the User Experience department for Cox Automotive. By night, he builds weird and useless web audio programs, some of which he just subjected you to. In addition, he teaches a class on Interaction Design at Champlain College and spends his spare money on modular synthesizers, 80s Japanese records and Swedish licorice.
