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Arts and Sciences

Programming Music on the Web

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Calvin Bottoms @calvinb

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A Little History

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1948

Alan Turing uses audio tones to signal processing events on his Mark II.

Christopher Strachey hijacks them to make music.

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1958

Max Mathews’ MUSIC II software supports four-part harmony.

It takes an hour of computing time to generate a minute of music.

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1975

At Palo Alto’s famous Home Brew Computer Club, Steve Dompier shows off his rendering of “Fool on the Hill” on his Altair 8800.

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1983

The MIDI standard is developed by a consortium of instrument manufacturers.

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My Early Experience:

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A Bleeping IBM PC

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Beep Boop Demo

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Scaling Out

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Laptop Orchestra

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Stack

  • Express
  • React.js
  • Babel
  • socket.io
  • MIDI.js
    • Web MIDI API
    • Web Audio API

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Time to Play

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laptop-orchestra-2016.herokuapp.com

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Thank you!

  • https://webaudio.github.io/web-midi-api/
  • https://github.com/mudcube/MIDI.js/
  • https://github.com/gleitz/midi-js-soundfonts
  • http://ariamaestosa.sourceforge.net/
  • http://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/
  • https://github.com/calvinb