- All the generated music is in just intonation. This was mostly for convenience at first (JI is easy to produce with code), but it led me down a massive harmonic rabbit hole in which I'm still located.
I'm currently hacking away at the next iteration of this, where rhythm is fully embraced. I have to say the ambient genre was super convenient and allowed me to play fast and loose with synchronization, while really focusing on how harmony can be laid out in space. But rhythm was always in the books and I'm hoping it takes things to another level.
I love what you have created! Would like to see more "plants". Not necessarily trees, but smaller bushes, and weeds, complementing the trees. I find there is too much empty space.
loving all the sounds, but especially that resonant drone is just fantastic. well done.
if you're hacking another iteration, i'm a 'wall of sound' type person... i was a bit sad that the 'listening radius' was so small / not changable. some of the sounds went out of focus too quickly for me even at the lowest autopilot speed, and this meant there were only a few sounds playing simultaneously at every moment.
I enjoyed exploring the (infinite?) landscape, but was then was a bit disappointed that that meant sacrificing the music, since there aren’t any more trees. And yes, I did find the water bell structure.
Maybe there wouldn’t need to be trees everywhere, but at least some clusters here and there, with different combinations, should incentivise exploration.
That's something. Gives me teamLab [1] vibes. Really like it. The mix of music which is relaxing and the scenery and the way it moves and that it is generative across what you see and hear. Can't wait to chuck this on a big screen.
Reminds me of Tres Lunas and Maestro, created by British musician Mike Oldfield (more famous for "Tubular Bells"), in 2002 and 2004, making them very ahead of their time.
This immediately reminded me of the teamLab Planets [1] experience in Tokyo, Japan.
Specifically "Flowers and People, Cannot Be Controlled but Live Together" [2] - the entire soundtrack for the experience was incredible, and this ambient garden took me right back. Thank you for sharing!
Check out Endless Forest, Flower, Electroplankton, and Panoramical - all offer similar meditative interactive audiovisual experiences with varying degrees of gameplay.
I remember this! It's beautiful, and a nice reminder that there are still lots of people on the internet creating wonderful things just for the joy of it.
Author here, glad people are exploring this. Some fun details (should be in the "about" section but that's easy to miss):
- It's open source, including the code that produced the audio: https://github.com/pac-dev/AmbientGarden
- All the generated music is in just intonation. This was mostly for convenience at first (JI is easy to produce with code), but it led me down a massive harmonic rabbit hole in which I'm still located.
I'm currently hacking away at the next iteration of this, where rhythm is fully embraced. I have to say the ambient genre was super convenient and allowed me to play fast and loose with synchronization, while really focusing on how harmony can be laid out in space. But rhythm was always in the books and I'm hoping it takes things to another level.
I love what you have created! Would like to see more "plants". Not necessarily trees, but smaller bushes, and weeds, complementing the trees. I find there is too much empty space.
Will star, and watch. Thank you!
loving all the sounds, but especially that resonant drone is just fantastic. well done.
if you're hacking another iteration, i'm a 'wall of sound' type person... i was a bit sad that the 'listening radius' was so small / not changable. some of the sounds went out of focus too quickly for me even at the lowest autopilot speed, and this meant there were only a few sounds playing simultaneously at every moment.
Very nice indeed. Congrats.
Any chance of getting a master volume control added? This is gorgeous but Firefox doesn't have a per-tab volume slider.
I enjoyed exploring the (infinite?) landscape, but was then was a bit disappointed that that meant sacrificing the music, since there aren’t any more trees. And yes, I did find the water bell structure.
Maybe there wouldn’t need to be trees everywhere, but at least some clusters here and there, with different combinations, should incentivise exploration.
If you want to fly through the scenery, increase the maximum value on the Speed slider:
That's something. Gives me teamLab [1] vibes. Really like it. The mix of music which is relaxing and the scenery and the way it moves and that it is generative across what you see and hear. Can't wait to chuck this on a big screen.
1. https://www.teamlab.art/
Well executed.
If you're into that sort of stuff there is also https://generative.fm by Alex Bainter.
You can even play both at the same time!
I drive both at the moment (Above the rain) through my Analog Heat with a good amount of saturation and play it softly. Bliss.
Reminds me of Tres Lunas and Maestro, created by British musician Mike Oldfield (more famous for "Tubular Bells"), in 2002 and 2004, making them very ahead of their time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Lunas#Computer_game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(video_game)
What's that alien artifact with the "water bell" label?
This immediately reminded me of the teamLab Planets [1] experience in Tokyo, Japan.
Specifically "Flowers and People, Cannot Be Controlled but Live Together" [2] - the entire soundtrack for the experience was incredible, and this ambient garden took me right back. Thank you for sharing!
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7nODEETR4s
[2] https://music.apple.com/jp/artist/hideaki-takahashi/30588056...
Ha ha me too! Made a similar comment. I can see myself coming back to this site many times.
reminds me of proteus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus_(video_game)
(i liked that it had some minimal interactivity/gameplay).
any others like it?
Check out Endless Forest, Flower, Electroplankton, and Panoramical - all offer similar meditative interactive audiovisual experiences with varying degrees of gameplay.
I remember this! It's beautiful, and a nice reminder that there are still lots of people on the internet creating wonderful things just for the joy of it.
What's with the gigantic "water bell" thing? Anyway would be cool for the trees to go on to infinity
I was wondering the same thing, I thought it would make a cool ominous sound, but the structure doesn't seem to do anything.
It does have sound. Walk on top of it.
Beautiful. I really like how the static sky looks.
I read some of Dan Simmons' Hyperion while listening to this and I can't go back to reading the normal way. What a vibe!
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Really cool. This might become my goto ambient background solution.
This is wonderful, thank you