Interactive musique concrète

Screenshot from https://naturexmachine.glitch.me

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Musique Concrète = music composed of fragments of recorded sounds separated from their origin and manipulated

About

NATUREXMACHINE is an interactive musique concrète made using sounds from nature and its machinery. Its simple interface and exploratory environment welcome the user to click and drag around the screen to experience the resulting piece. I designed two compositions using natural and mechanical sounds that crossfade between one another in relation to the location of the cursor.

From Nature:

From Machinery:

• Birds singing

• Birds flapping

• Waves crashing

• Water splashing

• Waterdrops

• Owl hooting

• Rolling thunder strikes

• Wind

• Rain falling on leaves

• Gas stove

• Keyboard typing

• Heart monitor beeping

• Camera shutter

• Car alarm

• Printer

• Train signal

• Windshield wiper

• Clock ticking

• Air conditioning

The music was composed in Adobe Audition and the interactions were coded in glitch.com

Inspiration

NATUREXMACHINE is inspired by the constant sounds of nature and machinery within our surroundings. The piece creates an environment where the two seemingly opposing sound sources come together and become a musically pleasant experience for the listener.

As a musique concrète, it ties to the broader field of work, sampling — a modern-day music technique incorporated in nearly all songs today that reuses and manipulates a portion of a sound recording into another recording.