Click to create at least two circles.
Listen to the tunes they make.
Press Space to clear them all.
great stuff!
its simple, hypnotic and it sounds like the rain… I am sold to this poetry! :) … Wondering how this would render on a huge touchscreen with plenty fingers to trigger a sound ^^
I thought your Tonematrix was great, but I think Pulsate is even better.
I’ve posted about Pulsate on my site: http://thesmellofmusic.com/2010/04/13/pulsate/
It’s wonderful to hear the rhythms and harmonies that can be created out of pure randomness. Well done!
webcam interaction would be great!
colcooooooooooc
yes! :)
very nice! this would be great on a touchscreen, like an android or iphone..
Hypnotic and addictive… Very addictive.
THIS is pure genius. Plus it is a to-be-taken-seriously musical instrument :)
DIG!
this is awesome, the math in it is interesting too, proving there exists an equilibrium state under certain conditions would be cool! like giving certain amount of circles, finally they ll evolve to a state that every collision produces the same sound as previous collision
Great idea!
By the way you can save and run this FLASH on PDA WinMobile touchscreen device with free standalone flashplayer installed(use google). COOL.
I broke it :(
Really nice sounds. But it could much more usable if circles at least could be deleted separately and moved. Just spoiled something like a piece of theme from American Dream by adding another circle :)
there is a bug - if you make two concentric circles, it may happen that they squeeze to a point and make a constant alarm sound.
Love it. Mesmerising.
This is dreamy, I love it. Oh, and @smelle of musica, this IS Pulsate, isn’t it? =)
there should be a load/save and a gallery or best-of. :)
Beautiful!..
wow this is great! really cool idea. even without sound on this is great to watch! sound just makes it better
Very Cool. Cant stop clicking.
Amazing, meditative, simple… love it, thank you!
thank you, this is wonderful, would make a wonderful port to an AU or vst.
This is a delicious piece of sonic geometry; lovely.
Makes for very good ambient music.
Would be really cool if you could manipulate the points before starting the circle growth. That way you could try arranging them in different ways. Maybe also having multiple kinds of points that are delayed a certain amount.
wowwwwwwwww!!!!!!
I would like to be able to remove a single circle. If I’m attempting to create a tune, it’d be nice to take one out if I didn’t time it right :)
firefox 3.5.9 on ubuntu 9.10 not working. im not saying whats to blame, im just saying its not working
I keep coming up with really beautiful sounding ones. I wish there was a way to save them! This is such fun.
this is a magnificent creation!! Bravo!
lo encuentro fenomenal el diseño
@linux: Works fine for me (Firefox 3.5.9, Ubuntu 9.10, x86_64). There is a glitch with Firefox and Flash, but nothing to do with this particular site - sometimes Flash applets don’t appear until I close and reopen Firefox.
@andré - wow, another cool app. My daughter and I both love this site, and have spent many happy hours browsing through it!
woha it crashed my firefox
Amazing tool for ambient sound making and meditative self-exploration! We add the link to this awesome tool on our site: http://quietzone.in
Check it for all sorts of environmental, meditative and calming ambient music…
sound exploration!
Ugh,I keep screwing it up and making a high pitch ring. Other then that it’s great.
This is such a stunningly simple and beautiful thing.
I loved to watch these universes repelling and attracting each other as they were contracting and expanding. The interaction is excellent in all ways.
That seemingly uncontrollable randomness was exciting and combined with the music, t’was poetry in motion.
Apart from that , placing two or three ,about two inches apart (on this laptop) created a lovely relaxing pulse.
This is going on my speed dial screen :)
I love Pulsate!!! Why don’t you make a VST instrument to be used in a DAW software? I would really like to use it in a couple of projects… :-)
it reminds me of rain simple and beautiful
can’t stop smiling. walked away and let it play…..
I broke it…
thank you for a moment of fun and peace.
wish you could change tone- it reminds me of tintinnabulation. could you make it bigger and with more variety of tone i.e. wider range low and high?
One thing I would suggest: being able to record.
absolutely lovely!
what is the point of this game
this is bomb
Simple, easy, simple, but what beautiful music can be obtained if we work out of course.
cooooool stuf!!!!!!!
Where is the Like button ;)
/chaosmode on Durch schnelles Klicken auf immer die gleiche Stelle, erhielt ich unerträgliche Pfeiftöne.
/Chaosmode off
Sehr schöne Töne!
That’s incredibly beautiful, my friend and I have been glued to this.
man, this is really great ;)
this creates totallly cool ambient music… u can sell the product ;)) big UP ;)
Cannot seem to make this work! It just doesn’t load up :( I’m using Firefox and have the latest version of Flash, any ideas?
x
Sonorous to mellifluous. Very creative. Thanks…
Удивительно красивая вещь! Мне, моим друзьям и коллегам очень нравятся Ваши звуковые работы. Это изящно, наглядно и применимо на практике. Спасибо Вам большое!
Surprisingly beautiful thing! I and my friends and Surprisingly beautiful thing! I, my friends and colleagues very much like your sound works. It is graceful, evident and is applicable in practice. Thanks you big!
Le étonnamment bel objet! À moi, à mes amis et les collègues plaisent beaucoup vos travaux sonores. C’élégantement, est évident et est employé pratiquement. Merci à vous grand!
this is absolutely beautiful
Pretty and awesome, but a volume control would be helpful.
great maths behind this! original idea (pr this is first of this type i’ve seen) good graphic style, nice sound and not high system requirements :)
This is very fun and great to play around with. Very creative idea. But unlike what some have posted, it is _not_ random at all. It’s very much influenced by where you put the dots, and you can create predictable effects if you practice a bit.
simply perfect !!!
Harmony of the spheres!
Something in a similar vein on the iPad or iPhone … Soundrops Free. Highly recommended!
Please make a full screen mode!
try clicking in the sme plase many times, hypnotise!!!
This should definitely be turned into a VST. I would use it.
Great work!Nice sounds!Thank you!
lol, i managed to make my browser crash! :D
Wo it really nice, i also made my browser crash, you just get carried away. Beautiful
most beautiful game I’ve ever seen…
Wow! This is a really great program. What was your inspiration?
GRAET!!!!!!!!!!!!! ANDRE!!!
Oh wauw!
I’ve been so bold to take the flash and post it on my blog (see ‘website’), with all credits to you and linking and all. Plz, allow me to introduce the folks of VK blog with your talent!
With kind regards,
Me-Phisto
Found your lovely instrument on Mephisto’s blog. Wauw! Sweet, beautiful, mesmerizing…
Thank you & thank you,
Vir
Awesome!
Great tool !
Maybe it could be a benefit to define double-clicks to get the circles to ring only 3 or 5 times and then disappear… could allow to make the thing more evolutive.
VST PLUGIN PLEASE!!!!!
It’s very much influenced by where you put the dots, and you can create predictable effects if you practice a bit.
Very ambient and chillaxing. Nice to play with, and a good respite from the real world.
Nice to play with and if you hold your mouse in the middle and click rythmically you get an awesome effect. Also when you look away after staring everything is warped
What type of scale are the notes set to?
Make an iPhone app
Very nice. Can you do one which sounds like Chinese wind chimes….?
Awesome.
Try this: Click in one place 4 times, with even spacing between clicks, and then double click in another spot twice, with a pause in between.
Cool to see the patter reverse and repeat.
why not make all circle have different colors?
Just when I thought I can’t be addicted! Great work, I just can’t stop playing with this :)
I made it flatline!
good one
This is … simply awesome. Addictive.
GOod tool
I’m not sure if this is intentional, but sometimes you can create three circles, all of them separate, and eventually they’ll all be engulfed by one of them. I didn’t think this was possible, because I thought that there were supposed to bounce off of each other, so engulfing each other would be impossible. Could this be explained?
Magnificent!!
Again an awesome music tool from you ! It’s so simple and powerful.
Thanks for sharing
Awesome! It’s hard to to believe but your circles really inspired me to create nice melodies.
Realy impressiple ! I will put link to this in my blog. Still playing :-)
Que loquera, me encanto!!!
This is so fun to manipulate. Amazing!
Awesome
@DeepVoid: I was thinking the same thing - what a great way to operate an instrument. Or an effect?
Fantastic
That’s awesome - it’s really addictive. I’ve been playing around with flash sound/visuals lately… I’ve got an experimental site up that’s still in beta: www.artbymusic.com
It would be nice if we could tap for the delay time to adjust !
You can create an oscillating bell by creating a circle inside a circle.
So amazing!
Beautiful. Would be great if you could start them moving about the frame & them pan the stereo sound left and right as they moved. Perhaps alter the volume as they moved up and down too.
Awesome, playing around with a ruler and managed to do a few percussion bits. Could do with some guide dots.
Fantastic!
this would be awesome as a live wallpaper for android devices
love it love it love it
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Absolutely gucking forgeous!! Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. The soundtrack to my life.
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Create awesome soundscapes - just click …
if you could port this to a chumby it would get huge appreciation
have a look at http://www.chumby.com/
this thing is a flash playing alarm clock (and so much more)… your app as an ambience device would be fantastic
Just amazing and fun, congratz!!!
I would absolutely kill to have an Android app based on this.
This is responsible for creating some of the most horrifying noises I’ve ever come across. My cat literally started crying because of it.
neat :3
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Pulsate is a web toy possibly amusing you for a few moments:) …
This is great and would be awesome on a touchscreen device.
This makes great ambient music for working/studying! Please add copy+paste like on tonematrix.
way cool and extremely hypnotic
hi this is soo cool i hav never heard of such a thing cheers
Thank you to whomever created this. Depending on where the circles are placed, sounds like wind-chimes without the wind.
After a few days playing with this fantastic instrument I find out that certain patterns create one type of “random” music, but another pattern gives another rhythm or melody. Even a circle inside another circle gives yet another rhythm. It is so relaxing that you can listen to this for hours. My favorite is using about 13 circles distributed evenly around. That gives a good balanced mix of both deep bass tones and some higher tones.
Simple, engaging and highly musical - excellent!
Oh wow, this is nice. Could I get the source? I’d love to be able to apply different instrument to the circles. These create nice, beautiful upbeat “songs” and I’d love to be able to create other kinds of sequences–as well as save and load sets to author dynamic music for games.
Another useful thing would be “constraints” that is, point objects that would reflect the wave at a given size and either create a tone or not (so you could have a single beat that looped at a given rate).
1/8 tone version would be very interesting indeed!
I am hooked on this thing! But I liked it better yesterday when concentric circles didn’t trigger each other… I developed some interesting patterns that produced wild melodies, but now they sound more wind-chimey with additional high notes….
I’m not making this up, am I?
Did any body else notice the change?
P.S. I didn’t mean ‘I like it better’… I’m adjusting… finding new patterns… I’m embracing the change!
I still love this thing! Thank you for making it!
you might like that as well:
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2010/04/geeky_music_vis.php
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checkit - cool ambient bloop generator made in Flash …
This is awsome! I was stressed out before I tried it and i’m totally relaxed now! :P I really love testing out new patterns and melodies ^_^
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I cannot stop playing with this funky music generator: #musictherapy…
Almost better than tone matrix…. maybe.
I liked the previous version that didn’t let rings in rings hit better, and without the ring limiter.
But for the rest it is a great thing to play with.
In the previous version I had a large number of rings in one another in one corner 10 rings in the far most corner opposite of the first one 5 rings in one of the remaining corners and 2 in the last corner.
All 4 sets of rings had per set the same starting location.
This gave the most beautiful orchestration, even after a great period of time with more and more beautiful sounds.
I agree with Tenshi… But I would prefer the ability to turn on or off inner-ring collisions. Just give us the option…
It reminds of that ‘life’ program where your blobs breed according to what neighbours them.. could the two be combined to make ‘music’ that evolves according to how the circles interact.. or something.?
PS I entered my email address, but the form insisted it wasn’t valid.. so I had to use a fake one instead.
Excellent! Ambient noise and tasty viduals.
I would believe that this is not merely randomness, which I believe to not exist, but rather radically sequential.
Addicting and beautiful…now I need the portable version for my iphone!
I think it should be easy to ‘learn’ or ‘program’ a set of circles to reach a state of equilibrium … and produce a mini-symphony. It would be quite useful to have a rule built in for circles to disappear … and perhaps appear!
I’d love a version of this was was rather more conways Game of Life-ified, so that the circles gradually entropy at some point or under certain circumstances,
Beautiful work.
Awesome. I would like the ability to save the music I create as mp3 or share it on facebook/twitter. Thanks a lot!
One of the most relaxing things I’ve come across on the web!
a rule for a scale change would be great!
amazing! really really great!
It’s simply awesome, i haven’t words to say how i feel it inside me.
Sorry my poor english
more colors
if you put a limit on how many screen strokes you can make could you please change it back. When you push the limit there are great distortion effects.
It would be even better if you could remove circles, or move them around.
this should be an ipod touch/iphone app
Fantastic!
And besides being fun it is also a great example of a system in harmony. I am going to use this site as an example
Amazing and beautiful. My daughter just fell asleep to this.
I never knew I had a sense for music (…and space) until I discovered your fantasy application. thanks
Thanks! totally needed with my bunged up nose being all in the way, I forgot about it for a moment. :)
Which was nice.
Ben
Magic!
amazing stuff, i wonder if i can play jingle bells if i try hard :)
It has been mentioned previoulsy but please make this into an iPhone app! It has to be worth 99p… 0_o
Great stuff. So simple and cool.
incredibly cool.
(-: Very soothing !!
dorit
This really needs recording functionality. I can come up with some fantastic simple melodies with this.
Elegant. Please indeed allow recording functionality–I’d love to use this in composition…
Download X-ZOOM free and record off soundcard just tried it and is perfect works with any sound effect on this site TRY IT ! LOL
André….
Pulsate is marvelous…. lovely….
somehow, i think could be even nicer being able to remove some circles, after some time….
one idea is to generate, as soon as a circle is created, a button with a number in the bottom. then, one can “close” a specific circle by pressing the button….
just an idea…
thanks
god on acid
I like the way its possible to make rythms that actually sound good!
This is a simply beautiful little toy/game. As a few have said, it makes me think of wind chimes… something I’ve always liked.
amazing
我很喜欢，非常不错。
Really nice little game! I could imagine using this as part of a live music set…it’s an interesting way to bring the visual element to it as well. I could imagine more being done to really bring out the visual side of things though! Imagine this idea with the iTunes style visuals…could be really beautiful!
Good work
Boy do I wish I could save this - couldn’t you make a way to grab a screen and take the point of each circle and it’s radius and save that on a cookie or something? I found one that’s particularly engaging to me and don’t want to lose it :(
Then again, such is life. Another random setup will never sound the same, but something good will come again.
Lack of detailed editing suits this, otherwise it would tempting to engineer results too obsessively, but I would like a variable pitch-volume curve - to counter the dominance of high/fast tones.
Lol they should put this on the ipod touch XD
a slow tune (5 or 6 clicks) works perfectly coupled with http://www.rainymood.com/
:)
^^ i love this
I created a pattern of sound circles and have been listening to the resulting melodic harmonies for hours now. This is so Zen, and so hypnotic.
Just beautiful Andre.
lovely stuff :)
but too many sounds seem to produce distortion - or is that just my computer?
This is win in so many ways! Especially making the circles concentric!
Too bad there is a cap on the peak low note about 35HZ and high peak even earlier VS what can be heard.
I want this as an app, pretty pretty pleeeease!
Is there any limitation over number of circles??
Great stuff. But if you create only one circle, it expands and go away - lost in infinity.
~Ajoy Singha
http://www.ajoysingha.info
i’ve just made a ubisoft logo w nice music
This is a beautiful little programme - does anyone know how to take the mpeg equivalent of a screen shot?
A symphony of raindrops.
最高です
Reminds me a lot of Frippertronics. :)
I could listen to this all day. Beautiful, imaginative, fun, soothing…..any more tags??
thanks for using the technology for something good and honest.
I love this. Believe it or not, this program makes me want to write a musical composition for harp.
Love the circles, its the first time I have made music. I am so glad to have come across this. will often listen to this wonderful music.
it would be cool if you could change the scale used too. I think this one is pentatonic isn’t it? More would be fun, and prolly easy code I imagine.
Many toys lose their appeal after a few days but I never tire of this. Add me to the list of those clamoring for an App! Sheer Genius.
This would make a cool Iphone APP. Then I could play/listen on the road, all day
Totally relaxes me. It’s like a happines machine.
the only problem is that you the way it plays out it is restricted to high frequencies often and low frequencies seldom. If there were some way to use the same format and somehow correct that it would be perfect.
I am so addicted to this program. :) I’m going to make a song and meditate to it.
Speachless ………. :)
great! =)
very cool and addicting….Aaamazing!
This is an awesome program. i keep it on for days altogether. One tab in my browser is dedicated to it.
This is one of my favorite online applications. It is so peaceful and soothing this is without a doubt the most beutiful interative online instrument I have ever encountered. Thank you for making this. I have a request is it possible to download this? I have a young sister in africa who is very musical and this would make her very happy as she waits on immigration to allow her to return. Please if anybody is aware of the steps please let me know!
Really great program, but I’d really look forward to v.2 or something,with things like random audio effects(another pitch modulation?added or subtracted treble?background noise?) dependent on the circles inclination to it’s “top center”.Maybe some more visual effects, added rotation physics,so the melody changed even more due to constant random movement of the circles….
what i am trying to say,is there something more coming?
MOAR!
Wow.. I can’t believe it!!
You have made a masterpiece..
Nice.. :D
Really fun. I like the way that it defies easy manipulation for an intended outcome. I find myself thinking in a completely new way about composition since the temporal relation of the circles also defines the frequencies that they generate at a particular instance of collision.
Omfg i mean wow this is great ^_____^
Nice ;) like music of the Universe. Almost like in space. Great idea.
Very pleasing :)
http://www.berfrois.com/
I made a boo boo in the bing bong.
unlimited possibilities! Komplex!
my friend showed this to me. and im glad she did. cuz this is rly beautiful and i have soo much fun with this ^^ you guys r such geniuses for creating this~ ;D
el azar con correa.
Electronic wind chimes. Cool breezes for my work cube. Thanks.
Have switched off spotify so now I work to my very own beat poetry. Cracking!
This is super great! Thanks you for sharing.
Drops on a pond or the tubular bells solar system, just awesome.
Absolutely fanatastic! would love to use this in a live dance show, can i contact you on your email?
Brilliant. This is going to put a lot of New Age composers our of work! :-)
Would be curious how ellipses would perform differently.
Simple, elegant and great fun! Well done!
love this. would be be better with the option to turn a grid on for the background
nice stuff lookin good ma homies
500 internets to you, sir!
Lovely & super-creative!
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Like this a lot. It put my dogs to sleep.
Love it. Small improvements would be the ability to delete individual circles (as others have said) and to save certain assemblies.
is the limit of the number of circles set at 32? :) i like it, you nailed it, as always. great job!
This is amazing! I can use this to relax. :) great job!
I smell an iPhone/iPod Touch iPad app…
georges is a queer
mesmeric! Managed to get some harmonious chordal stuff going - but don’t know how!
WAY COOL!
Question: can the circles intertwin? Answer: YES!
This is so lovely! I normally hate meditation music, because it seems to scream at me: RELAX, why don’t you. But this is different. And while I can understand where the commenters are coming from who wish to edit and save their circles, I think it would defeat the whole idea of the project.
You have to make this an ipod touch / iphone app or similar so I can bring it with me.
I love it!
Cheers,
Anders
amazaing! love it! greatness total!
please add deleting tool and individual volume control. :)
so nice :-)
Relaxing! Great idea. Congrats! :D
lovely. I wish I could do that
There is an Android app just like it, it is called Musical Bubbles!
this is awesome!
needs badges XD
Epic!!! great app and the created music it’s so cool, maybe you can combine with colors and make diferents instruments
Want it on Iphone!!!!
Wat een heerlijk ontspannend intermezzo speeltje.
i wonder what kind of sciences was this application based on ?
it’s extremely wonderful :)
It is mindblowing. Keep it up…
simple and nice
its beautiful, like vito
This is very soothing…
This is beautiful! I think this one is more fun than ToneMatrix, but they’re both awesome.
It would be really interesting to be able to select the pitches before starting. Instead of a plain pentatonic scale, it would be fun to try with a full 12 notes or some other group of pitches.
this is the best I’ve seen for a very long time on the web!!!!!!!!!!!!
I made some music with Pulsate, ToneMatrix and SuperEllipse and so on. Just recorded it with Ableton Live and added a Beat.
So there is no afterwork, it’s a live recording.
http://da-mero.bplaced.net/mp3/Web.mp3
It’s the Link i forgot.
Simply easy yet it creates such a vast number of different “songs” with it’s randomness. It’s great to have in the background when I’m drawing or writing. Would love to have this as a desktop feature.
How can people do this sort of stuff that is so cool,fun and also good for the everyday family!!!!!!!!!!
THERE should be a way to delete single circles to “kill” bad sounds and keep the good one.
beautiful. thank you!
it sounds like windchimes! this is really cool! thanks for making this! :)
Amazing ! I was able to creats some great music in minutes !
great criation… good vibe
simple awesome creation. thanks :) any plans to make an app for this?
Really interesting, Even more than the animation or interaction itself are the waveforms you use (or generate on the fly), it sounds quite cool! great.
Brilliant. Want to save my “composition”!