in this variation the 48 dots are arranged to trigger microtonal pitches in one octave

A musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book "digital harmony"

Animation and music by Jim Bumgardner of krazydad.com and the wheel of lunch. Jim makes free puzzles, including sudoku, killer sudoku, kakuro, mazes, and thousands of other puzzles.

var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines

var. 1 - harmonics of 55hz

var. 2 - harmonics of 20hz

var. 3 - harmonics of 48hz, reversed

var. 4 - harmonics of 48hz, palindrome

var. 5 - chromatic - 88 tines

var. 6 - microtones

var. 7 - harmonics - 120 tines, reversed

var. 8 - chromatic - 88 organ pipes, rev.

var. 9 - chromatic - 88 bars, rev.

var. 10 - chromatic - 64 pipe crypto calliope

var. 11 - minute waltz - 60 keys, 60 seconds

var. 12 - chromatic - prime numbers only

var. 13 - chromatic - non-primes only

var. 14 - stereo

var. 15 - stereo - 120

var. 16 - stereo - 210

var. 17 - hand cranked

var. 18 - stereo drone

var. 19 - stereo sonar

var. 20 - bell carol





Whitney Music Box by Jim Bumgardner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

More detailed information can be found in this post

Here is a git repository of sample source code / reference implementations in a variety of languages, including Flash/Actionscript, ChucK, Pure Data (PD), SuperCollider, Nyquist, pyo, Processing, Perl, and Syd. You'll also find MIDI files in there. Email me if you'd like to contribute.