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Click to create at least two circles.

Listen to the tunes they make.

Press Space to clear them all.

Charles H. Gund wrote...

great stuff!

valerie wrote...

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 ^^

Smelle of musica wrote...

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/

David wrote...

It’s wonderful to hear the rhythms and harmonies that can be created out of pure randomness. Well done!

James D. wrote...

webcam interaction would be great!

bobby wells wrote...

colcooooooooooc

philipp wrote...

yes! :)

mike wrote...

very nice! this would be great on a touchscreen, like an android or iphone..

Einzelganger wrote...

Hypnotic and addictive… Very addictive.

georges wrote...

THIS is pure genius. Plus it is a to-be-taken-seriously musical instrument :)
DIG!

MathChief wrote...

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

sergey wrote...

Great idea!

Ozver wrote...

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 :(

buradimeru wrote...

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 :)

neuroduck wrote...

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.

Pedrito wrote...

Love it. Mesmerising.

Jay wrote...

This is dreamy, I love it. Oh, and @smelle of musica, this IS Pulsate, isn’t it? =)

matths wrote...

there should be a load/save and a gallery or best-of. :)

Ilya wrote...

Beautiful!..

jeff wrote...

wow this is great! really cool idea. even without sound on this is great to watch! sound just makes it better

Jerry Lafferty wrote...

Very Cool. Cant stop clicking.

Lizardboi wrote...

Amazing, meditative, simple… love it, thank you!

cloudburst wrote...

thank you, this is wonderful, would make a wonderful port to an AU or vst.

Gerry wrote...

This is a delicious piece of sonic geometry; lovely.

Alex wrote...

Makes for very good ambient music.

Jesse wrote...

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.

sissos wrote...

wowwwwwwwww!!!!!!

Jared wrote...

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 :)

linux wrote...

firefox 3.5.9 on ubuntu 9.10 not working. im not saying whats to blame, im just saying its not working

nameLolly wrote...

I keep coming up with really beautiful sounding ones. I wish there was a way to save them! This is such fun.

Jake wrote...

this is a magnificent creation!! Bravo!

name CRIZZVRAS wrote...

lo encuentro fenomenal el diseño

Keith wrote...

@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!

uni wrote...

woha it crashed my firefox

quietzone wrote...

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…

hauntedheavens wrote...

sound exploration!

Ugh,I keep screwing it up and making a high pitch ring. Other then that it’s great.

Terry O wrote...

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 :)

DeepVoid wrote...

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… :-)

Tanya wrote...

it reminds me of rain simple and beautiful

jorge wrote...

can’t stop smiling. walked away and let it play…..

Dezz wrote...

I broke it…

dan wrote...

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?

X wrote...

One thing I would suggest: being able to record.

ronnie wrote...

absolutely lovely!

leann wrote...

what is the point of this game

wow wrote...

this is bomb

4MIN wrote...

Simple, easy, simple, but what beautiful music can be obtained if we work out of course.

ZAN wrote...

cooooool stuf!!!!!!!

Lukas wrote...

Where is the Like button ;)

dpms wrote...

/chaosmode on Durch schnelles Klicken auf immer die gleiche Stelle, erhielt ich unerträgliche Pfeiftöne.

/Chaosmode off

Sehr schöne Töne!

Coastal Cottages wrote...

That’s incredibly beautiful, my friend and I have been glued to this.

warp wrote...

man, this is really great ;)
this creates totallly cool ambient music… u can sell the product ;)) big UP ;)

Pip wrote...

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

Casey wrote...

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!

rose wrote...

this is absolutely beautiful

Meghan wrote...

Pretty and awesome, but a volume control would be helpful.

skull wrote...

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 :)

nameTed wrote...

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.

nigenio wrote...

simply perfect !!!

vinland wrote...

Harmony of the spheres!

atimbral wrote...

Something in a similar vein on the iPad or iPhone … Soundrops Free. Highly recommended!

Plunkett wrote...

Please make a full screen mode!

me wrote...

try clicking in the sme plase many times, hypnotise!!!

JSDF wrote...

This should definitely be turned into a VST. I would use it.

Vadim wrote...

Great work!Nice sounds!Thank you!

grmbl wrote...

lol, i managed to make my browser crash! :D

Jamell wrote...

Wo it really nice, i also made my browser crash, you just get carried away. Beautiful

nameAyrat wrote...

most beautiful game I’ve ever seen…

David Liou Wang wrote...

Wow! This is a really great program. What was your inspiration?

Andrei wrote...

GRAET!!!!!!!!!!!!! ANDRE!!!

Mephisto wrote...

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

Virgio S. wrote...

Found your lovely instrument on Mephisto’s blog. Wauw! Sweet, beautiful, mesmerizing…
Thank you & thank you,
Vir

Maith wrote...

Awesome!

Frank wrote...

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.

Leon wrote...

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.

Seltzerlizard wrote...

Very ambient and chillaxing. Nice to play with, and a good respite from the real world.

Tinn wrote...

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

Jacob C wrote...

What type of scale are the notes set to?

Average Joe wrote...

Make an iPhone app

name jk wrote...

Very nice. Can you do one which sounds like Chinese wind chimes….?

Chiaro wrote...

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.

chenxiaoqino wrote...

why not make all circle have different colors?

stellarian wrote...

Just when I thought I can’t be addicted! Great work, I just can’t stop playing with this :)

Tom wrote...

I made it flatline!

techno viking wrote...

good one

Ajith Nair wrote...

This is … simply awesome. Addictive.

GOod tool

Iudicious wrote...

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?

burakg wrote...

Magnificent!!

Slim wrote...

Again an awesome music tool from you ! It’s so simple and powerful.
Thanks for sharing

pizza fırını wrote...

Awesome! It’s hard to to believe but your circles really inspired me to create nice melodies.

Deniss wrote...

Realy impressiple ! I will put link to this in my blog. Still playing :-)

Que loquera, me encanto!!!

Jen wrote...

This is so fun to manipulate. Amazing!

Vams wrote...

Awesome

MP wrote...

@DeepVoid: I was thinking the same thing - what a great way to operate an instrument. Or an effect?

Bam wrote...
jassa wrote...

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

___peps wrote...

It would be nice if we could tap for the delay time to adjust !

Chris wrote...

You can create an oscillating bell by creating a circle inside a circle.

fireatsunrise wrote...

So amazing!

Ksrl wrote...

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.

Edd wrote...

Awesome, playing around with a ruler and managed to do a few percussion bits. Could do with some guide dots.

nameJulius wrote...

Fantastic!

Jimbo wrote...

this would be awesome as a live wallpaper for android devices

fasttom wrote...

love it love it love it

RT @cfleschhut: entspannungskreiseflashsound: (via @simurai) wundervoll!…

herbiederbie wrote...

Absolutely gucking forgeous!! Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. The soundtrack to my life.

Create awesome soundscapes - just click …

ash wrote...

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

nameCridox wrote...

Just amazing and fun, congratz!!!

Dyzo Bandit wrote...

I would absolutely kill to have an Android app based on this.

asdf wrote...

This is responsible for creating some of the most horrifying noises I’ve ever come across. My cat literally started crying because of it.

kylftch wrote...

neat :3

Pulsate is a web toy possibly amusing you for a few moments:) …

sionydwi wrote...

This is great and would be awesome on a touchscreen device.

remy wrote...

This makes great ambient music for working/studying! Please add copy+paste like on tonematrix.

namecamille wrote...

way cool and extremely hypnotic

eliza tidball wrote...

hi this is soo cool i hav never heard of such a thing cheers

name Ms Annie wrote...

Thank you to whomever created this. Depending on where the circles are placed, sounds like wind-chimes without the wind.

F0NIX wrote...

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!

Draco18s wrote...

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).

mainframe wrote...

1/8 tone version would be very interesting indeed!

nameChicagoBuck wrote...

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?

nameChicagoBuck wrote...

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!

checkit - cool ambient bloop generator made in Flash …

Anne wrote...

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 ^_^

I cannot stop playing with this funky music generator: #musictherapy…

Ekboy wrote...

Almost better than tone matrix…. maybe.

Tenshi wrote...

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.

Chicagobuck wrote...

I agree with Tenshi… But I would prefer the ability to turn on or off inner-ring collisions. Just give us the option…

Martin wrote...

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.

Eddie wrote...

Excellent! Ambient noise and tasty viduals.

Stephen Archer wrote...

I would believe that this is not merely randomness, which I believe to not exist, but rather radically sequential.

toydesign wrote...

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!

hairyhatfield wrote...

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.

evelyne wrote...

Awesome. I would like the ability to save the music I create as mp3 or share it on facebook/twitter. Thanks a lot!

Ralph Zoontjens wrote...

One of the most relaxing things I’ve come across on the web!

üav wrote...

a rule for a scale change would be great!

navi wrote...

amazing! really really great!

Aderbal Cardoso wrote...

It’s simply awesome, i haven’t words to say how i feel it inside me.

Sorry my poor english

name Sam wrote...

more colors

nameEVAN wrote...

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.

TBA wrote...

It would be even better if you could remove circles, or move them around.

anonamouse wrote...

this should be an ipod touch/iphone app

Oren Shani wrote...

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.

alex wrote...

I never knew I had a sense for music (…and space) until I discovered your fantasy application. thanks

Ben Freebody wrote...

Thanks! totally needed with my bunged up nose being all in the way, I forgot about it for a moment. :)

Which was nice.

Ben

Lidia Halliday wrote...

Magic!

tigermoods wrote...

amazing stuff, i wonder if i can play jingle bells if i try hard :)

shastrix wrote...

It has been mentioned previoulsy but please make this into an iPhone app! It has to be worth 99p… 0_o

Carlos Sardi wrote...

Great stuff. So simple and cool.

Ben wrote...

incredibly cool.

dorit s wrote...

(-: Very soothing !!
dorit

Bryant wrote...

This really needs recording functionality. I can come up with some fantastic simple melodies with this.

Jason wrote...

Elegant. Please indeed allow recording functionality–I’d love to use this in composition…

andy gibson wrote...

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

tomgu wrote...

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

namehxn wrote...

god on acid

jonathan wrote...

I like the way its possible to make rythms that actually sound good!

Sam wrote...

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.

Mohammed wrote...

amazing

name李梦琳 wrote...

我很喜欢,非常不错。

Josh wrote...

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

ColdFrog wrote...

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.

name wrote...

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.

Josh wrote...

Lol they should put this on the ipod touch XD

matt wrote...

a slow tune (5 or 6 clicks) works perfectly coupled with http://www.rainymood.com/

:)

Danmew wrote...

^^ i love this

Chiktionary wrote...

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.

CSA wrote...

lovely stuff :)
but too many sounds seem to produce distortion - or is that just my computer?

dragonbum wrote...

This is win in so many ways! Especially making the circles concentric!

Barberdan wrote...

Too bad there is a cap on the peak low note about 35HZ and high peak even earlier VS what can be heard.

Chelsea Welch wrote...

I want this as an app, pretty pretty pleeeease!

Alok wrote...

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

nameMax Ulitin wrote...

i’ve just made a ubisoft logo w nice music

Spike Matthews wrote...

This is a beautiful little programme - does anyone know how to take the mpeg equivalent of a screen shot?

LapisLee wrote...

A symphony of raindrops.

NGK wrote...

最高です

CJ Marsicano wrote...

Reminds me a lot of Frippertronics. :)

Hutch wrote...

I could listen to this all day. Beautiful, imaginative, fun, soothing…..any more tags??
thanks for using the technology for something good and honest.

Zachary Cotton wrote...

I love this. Believe it or not, this program makes me want to write a musical composition for harp.

Mary Lunardi wrote...

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.

namejp wrote...

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.

Pam wrote...

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.

Bmark42 wrote...

This would make a cool Iphone APP. Then I could play/listen on the road, all day

Morgana wrote...

Totally relaxes me. It’s like a happines machine.

derp wrote...

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.

Lydeth wrote...

I am so addicted to this program. :) I’m going to make a song and meditate to it.

Horeca Jobs wrote...

Speachless ………. :)

clawsmash wrote...

great! =)

CJ wrote...

very cool and addicting….Aaamazing!

Abhishek Chandra wrote...

This is an awesome program. i keep it on for days altogether. One tab in my browser is dedicated to it.

The Ripper wrote...

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!

Stoned slob. wrote...

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!

Jaya wrote...

Wow.. I can’t believe it!!
You have made a masterpiece..
Nice.. :D

Scott Anderson wrote...

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.

Geniusnet123 wrote...

Omfg i mean wow this is great ^_____^

Johnwalkier wrote...

Nice ;) like music of the Universe. Almost like in space. Great idea.

Berfrois wrote...

Very pleasing :)
http://www.berfrois.com/

Effergie wrote...

I made a boo boo in the bing bong.

Pedda wrote...

unlimited possibilities! Komplex!

crazyturtlez wrote...

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.

Bob wrote...

Electronic wind chimes. Cool breezes for my work cube. Thanks.

luca wrote...

Have switched off spotify so now I work to my very own beat poetry. Cracking!

colleen wrote...

This is super great! Thanks you for sharing.

Paul M. Watson wrote...

Drops on a pond or the tubular bells solar system, just awesome.

Amitesh wrote...

Absolutely fanatastic! would love to use this in a live dance show, can i contact you on your email?

nameRobert wrote...

Brilliant. This is going to put a lot of New Age composers our of work! :-)

Would be curious how ellipses would perform differently.

Kaushik wrote...

Simple, elegant and great fun! Well done!

matt wrote...

love this. would be be better with the option to turn a grid on for the background

MEMETOR wrote...

nice stuff lookin good ma homies

Anon wrote...

500 internets to you, sir!

Doug Millison wrote...

Lovely & super-creative!
blogged at http://www.facebook.com/TheConcreteJungleBook

MelF wrote...

Like this a lot. It put my dogs to sleep.

demoninatutu wrote...

Love it. Small improvements would be the ability to delete individual circles (as others have said) and to save certain assemblies.

figsch wrote...

is the limit of the number of circles set at 32? :) i like it, you nailed it, as always. great job!

Stella wrote...

This is amazing! I can use this to relax. :) great job!

a person wrote...

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!

nameJP Sousa wrote...

WAY COOL!
Question: can the circles intertwin? Answer: YES!

name nommh wrote...

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.

Anders Rosengren wrote...

You have to make this an ipod touch / iphone app or similar so I can bring it with me.

I love it!

Cheers,

Anders

betonfelhő wrote...

amazaing! love it! greatness total!
please add deleting tool and individual volume control. :)

mish0 wrote...

so nice :-)

Denise wrote...

Relaxing! Great idea. Congrats! :D

name Francisco wrote...

lovely. I wish I could do that

Annelie wrote...

There is an Android app just like it, it is called Musical Bubbles!

Heather wrote...

this is awesome!

Jonathan wrote...

needs badges XD

majimenezp wrote...

Epic!!! great app and the created music it’s so cool, maybe you can combine with colors and make diferents instruments

nameBatking wrote...

Want it on Iphone!!!!

Peter Bruun wrote...

Wat een heerlijk ontspannend intermezzo speeltje.

yomna wrote...

i wonder what kind of sciences was this application based on ?
it’s extremely wonderful :)

Manoj Kumar wrote...

It is mindblowing. Keep it up…

mario wrote...

simple and nice

stiv and vito wrote...

its beautiful, like vito

Anne wrote...

This is very soothing…

Scott Hughes wrote...

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.

timbomambo wrote...

this is the best I’ve seen for a very long time on the web!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mero wrote...

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.

Mero wrote...

http://da-mero.bplaced.net/mp3/Web.mp3
It’s the Link i forgot.

TwistedLogic wrote...

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.

ryan wrote...

How can people do this sort of stuff that is so cool,fun and also good for the everyday family!!!!!!!!!!

Los Kartoflos wrote...

THERE should be a way to delete single circles to “kill” bad sounds and keep the good one.

name eliza wrote...

beautiful. thank you!

Tiffany wrote...

it sounds like windchimes! this is really cool! thanks for making this! :)

Rohit wrote...

Amazing ! I was able to creats some great music in minutes !

Hugo wrote...

great criation… good vibe

Sri wrote...

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.

Russell wrote...

Brilliant. Want to save my “composition”!

shmerl wrote...

Really cool! Did you try to write it with pure JavaScript without Flash?

See for example: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API

alex wrote...

is it Opera friendly?

njmehta wrote...

amazinggg

Mark Undone wrote...

You are a genius! Great music… very relaxing!

Cesco wrote...

GRAZIE!

passepartout wrote...

wind chimes on my computer

coolguy wrote...

click alot of times in the middle in a row then click right on the outer rim of the first circle you made it sounds awesome!

njmehta wrote...

Mesmerizing… organic and aleatoric music generation device from Andre Michelle

radha wrote...

Loved it!
Simply wonderful..very soothing

Roos wrote...

Ohmy. It’s adorable. I can do this for hours. x”D

j wrote...

Concentric circles with one or two offsets are interesting….

njmehta wrote...

great

Jake wrote...

It doesn’t work, But it sounds like so much fun. I wish i could make it work. :(

njmehta wrote...

flash game ripple tunes

Tim wrote...

Great!

I also found something. Sometimes it happens that the lines cross each other.

Great coding

Neil wrote...

Always so inspiring and original, great to experiment with.

Dmitry wrote...

This is much more great than matrix!

name krista wrote...

Beautiful! So hypnotic!

Matthew Saunders wrote...

I think there’s alot of therapeutic to these programs, and honestly love what you’ve done on this site, so much so that I mentioned it on our blog.

eric rucker wrote...

just beautiful!

Jack Bailey wrote...

It would be nice if you were able to change the type of sounds used. (The ‘Instruments’, perhaps.)
Really fun to play with though :D have been messing around with it for ages.

manas wrote...

magnetic motor plans can be build! Get one today!

nameTed wrote...

STUPID PILE OF RUBBISH

Mabyre wrote...

I had so many fun spending a lot of time making SO COOOOOL musics
Many Thanks great

name Caluguini wrote...

La raja!

Waza wrote...

didnt work for me? its just blank

waza wrote...

my bad I didnt click. I was expecting it to do somethin on start.

Very cool now

Candy Cat wrote...

Hi! I LUV IT! plus, it always sounds good

Nice work Andre!.
My samples: http://screenr.com/obZ and http://screenr.com/wbZ

olive wrote...

this should be an ipod touch/ipad app! i would so buy it :)

shapewear wrote...

This should definitely be turned into a VST. I would use it.

vanessa wrote...

fantastico!!!

paolo wrote...

Awesome!

struzi wrote...

yeahhh! it´s fantastic

Jerusha wrote...

Amazing! The music is so pretty! :)

guajiro wrote...

Simply MASTERFUL :)

Yuli wrote...

Awesome to see stuff like this come into the browser. It’s a great medium through which to spread interactive music to a much wider audience than just smart-phone owners…

Scrivo queste due righe di stima in compagnia dei suoni ipnotici che ho appena creato.
Enorme lavoro. E un’unica speranza: quella di veder sempre presente nel web un progetto così bello.
Grazie.

best webhosting wrote...

That is fantastic, very hypnotic :)

nameAntonio wrote...

Excelente. Muy relajante ¡¡¡

8Ddi wrote...

Wicked!

Twisting Trends wrote...

This is amazing. Love it.

Randy Ralston wrote...

Brian Eno must be very jealous!

nabaa wrote...

I love this. great job

prasad wrote...

Awesome!!

Maarten wrote...

Great stuff! I’ve been listening to your creation (in a way also mine) for over 20 now, very relaxing :) I’d only wish there was a way to save this session or get a way to send it to someone else :)

Brian wrote...

make many concentric circles and you will enjoy it. start in the center and then make one on the outside right before the outermost escapes the screen

Liviu wrote...

This is so much fun, just like ToneMatrix. Keep up the good work! Good luck!

Lizbee wrote...

This is amazing — fantastically fun!!! I’d love to be able to save some of the “pieces” I’ve made. But without being able to do so, it’s sort of like a mandala, existing for a moment alone.

Katherine wrote...

I love it!

I wonder how this would be on a smart board at my school.

gabriela wrote...

I wanna buy it.

Bogdan Vera wrote...

Hey!

I was doing some experiments with sound and graphics recently, and because I love your work so much, I tried to re-create this program with SDL, using C++, with some modifications. Here’s what my version (titled Singularities) looks like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVfEamuCCJo

I made it switch keys automatically from A minor to E minor to D minor, and the circles lose health over time and die out. Also, you can’t seed a circle inside a circle, this instead destroys the old circle. It’s based on a black/white/red color scheme which I thought looked nice and minimalistic.

Hope you like it, I referenced your original work in the description.

joe spano wrote...

warning: maximum bubble limit exceeded

oreo wrote...

amazing i love this and @all who have ideas im sure that any1 smart enuff to make this and TM is smart enuff to figure that out is polly already working on it.

Kelsey wrote...

this so so amazing! my teacher showed it to me and i’ve been haveing so much fun. some more colors would be fun, like ones that change every time they touch another circle. AMAZINGNESS! LOVE IT!

cosmin wrote...

really great, I love the sounds!

It is a great stuff, love to do it again and again

i love it

TimeWaster wrote...

warum keine android version? :o(

Hermes Hellfield wrote...

I would love an Android Version for my Motodext
This is just beautiful

federicolatini wrote...

Please make an Android app out of this!!! please!

jammer wrote...

it would be great to have a 4 by 8 or 8 by 16 or adjustable grid with adjustable circle speeds and the ability to quantize…oh…how bout making a MIDI file output for the pattern you make??….I ask too much!!

Mitch wrote...

your big sister who is often online on UniFaction told me about this app and I really LOVE it!

a big compliment for your great work!

and please give your sister a hug from me(her UniF name is Karthatic;))

lee wrote...

you nail this one man. hope to see more of this from you soon. :)

Adam wrote...

PLEASE make an android app out of the AudioTool. These experiments are awesome and make good apps. But that would make a GREAT app! iPhone AND Android !!!

Kolby wrote...

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS!!! THIS NEEDS TO BE AN IPOD TOUCH APP……SOOOOOOOOOOOO MANY PEOPLE WOULD BUY IT! again, love it! awesome job!

Lorena wrote...

I just love it, it’s just hypnotic

name max wrote...

Thanks for helping me put my 2 week old daughter to bed :)

Cool stuff. You might want to check out this cool–and cheap–beat maker software (www.dubturboreviewed.com).

George Hayduke wrote...

Cool stuff. You might want to check out this cool–and cheap–beat maker software (www.dubturboreviewed.com).

Mesmerized wrote...

Props for the iPhone app!
Now, all you need is a Full Screen Version!

In normal cases, i would have gladly thumbed this up, but i click 5 times on the same place, and the thing just got stuck, they need to fix that little issue u_u

Dragan wrote...

Fantastic!

Krizpy wrote...

The sounds are soothing and the circles are hypnotic… amazing. I want to see this on the iPad. ;D

That GUy wrote...

This is great and wonderful. I am kinda disappointed that there is no copy/paste option to export the positions of all the circles.

Dan.V.P wrote...

hey, click the center really quick about 15 times then click one on the outside and watch what happens

JulieMS wrote...

Digital Wind-chimes

erik wrote...

that is so great! I can imagine to listen to it the whole day …

yolanda wrote...

This is great on a touch screen but it is too small and shoudl take multi-touch. I’d pay $15USD for it as an app I can play full screen.
It’s beautiful.

nameJim wrote...

I love that you can out circles inside other circles!

sree wrote...

great work , i like this idea very much.

fantastic! I would like a version with coordinates aware sounds, like in a tone matrix, ie: bottom side lower sounds, top side higher etc.
really great!

ilez wrote...

This is great, awesome work! Any chance for an android version?

kid wrote...

+1 for android version

jaderenee wrote...

absolutley amazing.

each time its different, impossible to duplicate. wow. i love this.

Shannon McCallum wrote...

This is, to put it crudely, simply amazing. I want to put the maths to this. It’s just wonderful.

I would gladly pay to have this as a program on my computer.

And there does seem to be the issue that, when at it’s smallest state, the circles can be passed over by other circles.

Just wow. You have my eternal respect.

Dub Turbos wrote...

Great stuff here! How did you do this? The tune is hypnotic. It get to my nerves.Anyway, I still enjoy clicking till there were no space to build circles.

Isaac wrote...

wow, this would be cool with Microsoft surface…

guy wrote...

@ mathchief
your over thinking the equation, make only two circles each note is the same as the last

This is one of the most beautiful sounds I have ever heard. Soothing, Meditational and very Touching.

Chiaslut wrote...

Love this so hard. I would love to be able to save/share the little creations we’ve made.

rose ;) wrote...

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing !
how do y’ do it?????

shell beads wrote...

This is dreamy, I love it.

quaestor wrote...

kinda reminds me of synthpond for the iphone - in a very abstract sense. either way, it’s VERY cool

quaestor wrote...

sorry to double-post
it’s in STEREO. and the *bass* with headphones… woo. if you don’t try with a good headset, you’re missing out…

Nunnsey wrote...

We’ve had all of the computers in our studio playing this all morning. It was faaaaantastic.

Resin Beads wrote...

simply amazing

Francesca wrote...

GENIUS.
I love it!!!
The idea is surprisingly simple and so clever at the same time.
The sound is perfect for background music, I’m addicted to it already!!!
Thank you!!

Its great dude I am lovin it. its really nice apps. thanks for sharing this

DQvsRA wrote...

And What about ANDROID portation! I think it’s not difficult with new CS5.5??? Waiting! : )

Fly wrote...

Heard about Virtuoso ?

Get Article wrote...

If only I could create a music as easy as this then I will become a great musician. This is really amazing!

Belly wrap wrote...

As someone already commented - awesome!

NexusPrime000 wrote...

i made an optical illusion with this and TRIPPED OUT

PiedType wrote...

Hopelessly hooked on this. “Awesome” is an understatement.

cordell wrote...

Its time for my special attack seizure procedure

Серега Волошин wrote...

Мэн ты крут!

Emmanuel wrote...

Sublime!

Amy wrote...

Majestic !

name Martha Loss wrote...

I just wish I had a way of recording some of the beautiful sound combinations this produces. I really love it.

Beat Maker wrote...

Wow, This is pretty cool! Like the person above me said, I just wish there was some way to record this,

manish wrote...

It’s simply amazing..

name seed wrote...

Hello this is pure beautiful thank you how can you save what you do???
and how can one record ?
Have good day

Alicea wrote...

Tis is awsome!!!!!!!!!! =D

steve wrote...

Audio tool is brilliant.

http://drummachinesoftware.net/

AM Dumitran wrote...

incredibly beautiful !

Cmdrhawk wrote...

Very cool! I love it! Need to record some!

nameJar wrote...

played with this for hours and got the app so I can take it along with me!

Omar wrote...

dude this thing is addicting xD

john wrote...

VERY NICE THANKS!!!!

name Harriett wrote...

The hard part is retraint…I keep wanting to add more tones…

maxine wrote...

IT’S AWESOME :) :) :3)

Miranda wrote...

This is great. My nephew loves playing with this. I like putting a ton of circles inside each other. Then one on the outside for it to bounce off of. Sounds really cool when they hit. Almost like bringing your hand down the keys of a piano. Really cool.

gabby wrote...

very nice

jessika wrote...

dhiz is fhuuuuunn !! =]

Jonathan wrote...

It would be nice if the deeper sound were louder. I can hardly even hear the larger impacts.

Oscelot wrote...

Love it. :3 Have had it going for a few hours now.. it reminds me of windchimes. In fact, I’d love to see a windchime sound mod for this.

nameJeffrey Burr wrote...

the ability to choose a different tone set would make this super cool. A row of buttons in the margin, to which you could assign scales/tonesets…?

Harriett wrote...

I just happened across an old NPR story about Mbira, the African Thumb Piano…Eureka…That is what this site sounds like…

Sarai wrote...

awesome

UR MOM.COM wrote...

dis iz da buiesnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

name Heloisa wrote...

Fantastic!!!
I’d like to have it on my PC.. and to have also more colours for the circles .. and we could record… the sound it makes are … awesome.. (I hope my english is enough to understand that I’d like to say…)

shinji-akari wrote...

dude….you rock. awesome concept, grand execution and simple brilliance. an organic iterative melody maker.

david , fr wrote...

super !

halley wrote...

takes forever but still a good games

Vanessa wrote...

I saw this on Jayisgames.com from like a year ago and tried it out. This would be great for a touch screen! I agree with the majority of the other commenters that it should let you delete single circles at a time without deleting the rest. I think it’s amazing!

Pierre wrote...

amazing

Danny wrote...

Lots of fun, & almost infinite possibilities! (I tried clicking as many times as I could, and there is a maximum) I like keeping it simple, though. I also really like making circles within circles. Hopefully this is as good on the iPod as it is on the computer!

PS I also tried making only one circle, and after it grows, it disappears and never comes back! XD

Dub Turbo wrote...

http://www.makemusic-beatsmaker.com

Perfect. That’s the only word I can use to describe this amazing easy to use Beat Maker Software.
The software contains many instrumental samples and comes with plenty videos help. DubTurbo

Arno wrote...

Bought the App but the circles does not show.

gusti wrote...

please, you must play this one and super ellipse at the same time. the pulsate no more than 8 or 9 pulses (very Eno), so, when the super ellipse start, the party is in fire!!!!!

kim wrote...

when will app be compatible with IOS 5.0?
just bought your app and no circles show :)
10.18.2011
thanks!

namemadofthehill wrote...

Incredible, I really like it. I also think it would be great to have an Android version.

I would be pleased to help developing.

jason wrote...

i like this thing so much fun and reaxing i wish it would go on my ipad and ipod

zadigman wrote...

just bought pulsate for iphone but i can’t see the circles :(
think we need an update… anyway really good job!! peace
iphone 3gs - ios 5.0
21/10/11

Tatiana wrote...

Fantastic :)

Miguel Angel wrote...

Hi,
Will be nice if you add the possibility to do Ctrl+Z for undo the las circle if don’t like it.

Thanks

I like very much this instrument. :)
Simple and beautiful!

wheat wrote...

Fun app. Really have enjoyed it. Recently discovered that the circles can’t be seen now that I’ve upgraded to iOS 5. Any plans to update it?

eeviac wrote...

Hi! pulsate was one of my favourite iPhone app, but I update the OS and lost it!
what about??

us wrote...

gave me a headache. a pretty MASSIVE one. pretty cool tho.

Paloma wrote...

Hi, is Pulsate not working today? (please, let me know if you can. I’d like to post a link about it)

I love it, it’s so beautiful. Thank you so much!

Elliott wrote...

This is fantastic! :D

Although I reckon it could be better with more colours and perhaps sound.

namebob green wrote...

I love this! Is there any way of varying the attack/decay of each tone, I would love to heaar this with a longer decay

aaron wrote...

I clicked the perfect spots it seems like im a being sung a song so beautifully

arushi wrote...

When the circles touch the make such a beautiful sound. My brother was sitting beside me and listening he fell asleep. I almost fell asleep!

janina wrote...

haha make 31 circles in same spot and then 1 right outside the first one

marlfox63 wrote...

beast (m)>_

bluejewel24 wrote...

im sure im not saying anything that hasnt already been said here 100 times lol, but this is seriously one of the most BRILLIANT things iv ever seen!!! so simple, and so perfect!
i wish you would make other versions, like flute, guitar, whatever else you you can do like this. i would open each in its own window and make a symphony!
o and if you could put it all into a single standalone program, that isnt tied to the internet, id be in heaven!!! :D
hell, id even PAY for that program lol, and i dont buy much! :P
thank you very much for creating this and sharing it with everyone!!!

Metal wrote...

Best app ever!

Ten fingers on your keyboard wrote...

This is AMAZING!!

I spent 4 hours in front of this website :D

thinkinwind wrote...

the distance make music varies in scales. you can make low and high scales by distance. try~~

S K S wrote...

AMAZING WEBSITE!!!

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www.youtube.com/user/saurabhkrsingh97 :)

adriana wrote...

super increible esta pag no lo puedo creer eres un genio

Casper wrote...

Is there a reverb on the sound?

Teresa wrote...

Your game it Good and Nice!!!

Gareth wrote...

is there any way I can save my compositions, I am an ambient music composer and love new ways to make sounds and incorporate them into my work. http://soundcloud.com/carbonates-on-mars

Mike wrote...

Any chance of this becoming a touch screen iPad app with capability of removing individual circles?? Please email me! I’m a musician and I would love to be able to use something like this!

Reilly wrote...

this is one of the sound + visial thing i have seen. Can you sent me the code for the application i would love to have a little play with it.

Reilly wrote...

this is one of the *best*sound + visial thing i have seen.

jill wrote...

I love to come here and play around with the soundcircles a little bit during breaks from studying. So relaxing!

Nak wrote...

I would love to have a bigger field to work on this with. This is simply amazing.

GABI wrote...

isto e muito giroi

Isabela Rodrigues wrote...

Pois é! xD

Isabela Rodrigues wrote...

Pois é! xD

The Alchemist wrote...

awesome job andre!!!@ can we make full length tracks with this?

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