awesome-audio-visualization

A curated list about Audio Visualization.

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What is Audio Visualization?
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Contributing Guide

Books

Web Audio API by Boris Smus

Downloads

Soundwhich
Beeple's resource (inspirational C4D "open source" files)
Freesound
Audio Jungle
Six Bit Deep
Samplephonics - Free Stuff
Wave Alchemy
Audio Animals
Bed Room Producers Blog
Free Music Archive
Music Radar
How to Make Electronic Music Freebies
Motion Sound
Cava 4,156 22 days ago A cross-platform terminal visualizer

Experiments

Audible Visuals Collection of visualizers derived from the Archimedean spiral by Sonia Boller
React Player A complete Audio Visualisation player with ReactJS
Moire A Web Audio / WebGL visualisation
Finding Love fully interactive, Virtual Reality story that transforms emotions into art
Tangled Audio-visual release by Berlin based netlabel Yarn Audio, visuals made in . Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom
Luis Henrique Bizarro Portfolio Portfolio with experiments using Three.JS and GSLS
Adventure Machine Campaign for Madeon's "Adventure" album
BBNG WebGL Visualizer for "Confessions" (feat. Leland Whitty) by BADBADNOTGOOD
Chrome Music Lab Play with simple experiments and explore how music works
DENNIS An interactive and audio responsive music video for "Dennis" by popcorn_10's
Fluctus Experimental 3D Audio Visualizer by Jordan Machado
George & Jonathan III Campaign for George & Jonathan's "III" album
Lantern WebGL Visualizer for "Lantern" by SBTRKT
Lines Visualising Joy Division album cover as a music spectrum by Silvio Paganini
Nero WebGL Visualizer for "In The Way" by Nero
Pareidolia WebGL Visualizer for "Szerencsétlen" by Venetian Snares
Splice A realtime interactive music visualizer using time-code data from Splice's upcoming visualizer API
Typatone Make music while you write
Yume Campaign for Helios' "Yume" album
Silk 3D Audio Visualizer by Matt DesLauriers
Wave 3D Audio Visualizer by Matt DesLauriers
Binaural Experiment using Binaural and Reverb audio effects by Matt DesLauriers
Word Problems WebGL Visualizer for "Word Problems" by Harmonic 313
Glitch An algorithmic synthesizer to make music from math
105 Birthday Clara Rockmore A Doodle for the Birthday of Clara Rockmore
Fireworks with WebGL Sound driven fireworks by Ondřej Žára
Glowsynth - just amazing! Play with your mouse, Qwerty keyboad, or MIDI keyboard and watch as the lights dance to your music
Mmorph An adventure into new ways of delivering interactive music in the browser and beyond
Loop Waveform Visualizer WebGL Visualizer for Screw Base by Beytah
Scrollsound Scrolling as a method of interaction with audio on the web by Ehsan Ziya
Experiment #8 Music Experiment by Bruno Imbrizi
Music Cube A Chrome Experiment that combines the Roland TR-808 Drum Machine with the Rubik's Cube
Music Game - ECHO A challenging musical puzzle game
Patatap A portable animation and sound kit
Plink - Awesome Multiplayer Game A multiplayer music experience
Soundcloud Visualizer A Canvas and Web Audio Experiment
CSS Visualizer Music Visualizers that are made entirely using DOM elements and CSS3
Kandinski Experiment Music Visualizations inspired in Kandinsky
Visual Music Trailer Live audio visual performance ideas
Draw and Music Campaign for Rugs new album by Sam Greens
Moogfest Substrate Experimental site to Moogfest
3D Grid Audio visualizer built with HTML5 web audio API by rickycodes
obsidian 3D Audio Visualization made by the creator of Three.js
TRIF GIF-based online radio visualization using webaudio API and raw CSS
Audiograph Amazing audio visualization made by Matt DesLauriers
Scribble Audio Draw loops of sound with this web synthesizer
Touchpianist play a piano and look all animations along the screen
PartyMode An experimental music visualizer using d3.js and the web audio api
DJi Clean music visualizer from SoundCloud or self uploaded
VR Ondes Martenot 6 5 months ago A playable rendition of the Ondes Martenot in Virtual Reality
Popcorn Little audio-reactive sketch by Hugh Kennedy
Musical Interactions Some experimental ideas for playful musical interactions
ClubberToy Several shadertoys, rewired with clubber, bundled as a vj app
Andantino Listen some notes and try to find same notes on the keyboard
Vissonance A collection of audio visualizers built in THREE.js
ShowCQTBar Audio spectrum visualization with musical scale
Weekly Music Visualizations Weekly music visualization experiments built with Three.js and p5.js by Suraya Shivji
Audio Visualizer 35 about 4 years ago An interesting web audio visualizer built with Pixi.js
YouTube Musical Spectrum 175 26 days ago A browser extension that offers audio visualization on your YouTube page with nice musical notes
Just Dance A 3D Audio Visualization made with & 2D Perlin Noise
audioMotion High-resolution real-time audio spectrum analyzer and full-featured music player written in JavaScript. Includes binaries for Windows, Linux and macOS
p5.js Audio Visualizer A powerful, beat- and amplitude-responsive audio visualizer created with , on an HTML5 Canvas by Amanda Yeh

Experiments on Codepen

SVG Animated Drum Kit Play an amazing Drum made with SVG and realistic sounds by @iamjoshellis
SVG Animated Guitar Play an amazing Guitar made with SVG and realistic sounds by @iamjoshellis
Audio Visualizer Abstract Audio Visualizer using Three.js by Francesco Trillini
Awesome Audio Player Radial Audio Player constructed by lines of frequency and amplitude by Alex Permyakov
Wireframes Wireframe WebGL Animation with Three.js by Patrick Heng
Soundcloud Vinyl Search An amazing experiment creating a realistic Vinyl player using DrawSVG and GSAP by Chris Gannon
Gooey Effect Audio Upload your mp3 and visualize the song with this crazy effect by Jeremy Karlsson
CSS Audio Visualizer Using audio frequency data from a hidden video to apply CSS scaling by Neil McCallion
Storytelling with Html5 + CSS3 A great example of how to use music to create a Storytelling by Rachel Nabors
Step sequencer Create music with this sequencer by Joe Harry
WebGL Soundcloud Visualizer using Three.js ThreeJS/WebGL Soundcloud player/visualizer based on HTML5 AudioContext API by Luigi Mannoni
Oscilator Testing the oscillator node from HTML5 audio API by Anej Gorkič
Cubes Audio Visualizer 10th contribution for codevember 2015 by Patrick Heng
P5 Audio Tests 33 Audio visualization using p5.js 3D elements and Soundcloud API
P5 Audio Tests 27 Audio visualization using p5.js 3D elements and Soundcloud API
CircleLineNERDDISCO Audio visualization with amazing analyser by Tim Pietrusky
Clubberize yin yang example An example using the clubberize helper to easily integrate clubber.js in javascript apps

Libraries Audio

web-audio-analyser 211 about 4 years ago A thin wrapper around the Web Audio API that takes an
web-audio-player 243 over 4 years ago A cross-browser Web Audio player
web-media-playback 8 almost 9 years ago Retrieve playback and buffering information about audio or video playing in the browser
Pizzicato.js Simplify the way you create and manipulate sounds via the Web Audio API
ThreeAudio.js 530 almost 9 years ago Helps you create music visualizations in Three.js or tQuery
Beeplay.js Write a song In JavaScript
MIDI.js 3,800 4 months ago Making life easy to create a MIDI-app on the web
Beep.js 1,361 over 9 years ago A JavaScript toolkit for building browser-based synthesizers
p5.sound 871 16 days ago Brings the Processing approach to Web Audio and p5.js
Audiolet A JavaScript library for real-time audio synthesis and composition
coffee-collider A language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition in HTML5
audio-render 42 almost 9 years ago A pass-through audio stream, providing structure for rendering stream audio data
Octavian 174 over 2 years ago Utilities for reasoning about musical notes, frequencies, and intervals
waveform-data Audio Waveform Data Manipulation API – resample, offset and segment waveform data in JavaScript
audiowaveform 1,886 about 2 months ago C++ program to generate waveform data and render waveform images from audio files
Aubio C library for realtime audio labeling with bindings for Python and PD, support for ofx and Vamp
audio 205 5 months ago Generic Go package designed to define a common interface to analyze and/or process audio data
wav 301 10 months ago Battle tested Wav decoder/encoder
standardized-audio-context 671 3 days ago A cross-browser implementation of the AudioContext which aims to closely follow the standard
web-audio-beat-detector 571 17 days ago A beat detection utility which is using the Web Audio API
meyda 1,454 3 months ago Audio feature extraction for JavaScript

Libraries Visualization

p5.js A JavaScript library for creating graphic and interactive experiences, based on the core principles of Processing
Pixi.js 43,650 16 days ago A fast lightweight 2D library that works across all devices. The Pixi renderer allows everyone to enjoy the power of hardware acceleration without prior knowledge of WebGL
sketch.js Let's you get straight to the fun parts of creative coding, without ever having to worry about shims or boilerplate code
three.js Three.js is a library that makes WebGL easy to use
Two.js A two-dimensional drawing API geared towards modern web browsers. It is renderer agnostic enabling the same API to draw in multiple contexts: SVG, Canvas, and WebGL
BabylonJS A complete JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML5, WebGL and Web Audio
Web Audio Extension 186 almost 8 years ago A Chrome extension to play with Web Audio
Cinder A community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++
Processing An open source programming language and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities
HYPE_processing Collection of Processing classes that performs heavy lifting tasks while using a minimal amount of code writing
The Force 275 7 months ago Live coded shader editing with audio input
Hylogen 480 9 months ago Purely functional language embedded in Haskell for expressive live coding of fragment shaders (with audio input)
Peaks.js Modular client-side JavaScript component designed for the display of and interaction with audio waveform material in the browser
Clubber.js 360 over 6 years ago Application of music theory in audio reactive visualizations
Vuo — A realtime visual programming language for interactive media
wavesurfer.js A customizable audio waveform visualization, built on top of Web Audio API and HTML5 Canvas
wavebell 49 over 3 years ago A javascript voice recorder with realtime waveform, using web microphone
Circular Audio Wave 252 5 months ago A JS library for audio visualization in circular wave using Web Audio API and ECharts
Slang 1,188 over 4 years ago An audio programming language built in JS
audioMotion-analyzer High-resolution real-time audio spectrum analyzer JS module with no dependencies
Cava 4,156 22 days ago A cross-platform terminal visualizer
Muser Using machine learning to enhance music visualization in the browser

People to Follow

Aaron Koblin Artist, designer, programmer, and entrepreneur specializing in data and digital technologies
Joshua Davis An American designer, technologist, author and artist in new media
Robert Hodgin A creative coder living in Brooklyn. Co-creator of the Cinder C++
Seb Lee-Delisle An award-winning digital artist and speaker
Raven Kwok A visual artist, animator and creative programmer
Chris Wilson Open Web Guy, formerly of Microsoft and now working as a Developer Advocate at Google
Jason Sigal Creative Coder in residence at NYU's and creator of web audio library for p5.js
Shawn Lawson An experiential media artist creating the computational sublime
Matt DesLauriers Creative coder at Jam 3
Patrick Heng Creative front-end developer. Studied at Hetic and Gobelins and works at Grouek
Mat Preziotte Absurd music visualizations and generative art
Yannis Gravezas A creative coder with several projects featured in chrome experiments, fwa and elsewhere

Tutorials

Kadenze - Courses about Sound and Creative Process
MDN - Basic concepts behind Web Audio API
Understanding AudioParams: Precision control of web audio nodes
Making An Interactive Music Video With WebGL
Exploring the web audio api with d3
Getting Started with Web Audio API
14 essential JavaScript audio libraries for web developers
Learning Web Audio API
Fun with Web Audio API
The Audio Processing Dog House
Web Audio School
Audio visualisation with the web audio api
Make Your Browser Dance
Audio Visualization with Web Audio and Three.js
Applying Web Audio API with the HTML5 Canvas Element - Part I
Applying Web Audio API with the HTML5 Canvas Element - Part II
Real-time analysis of streaming audio data with Web Audio API
Syncing CSS Animations with HTML5 Audio
Javascript Systems Music - Learning Web Audio by Recreating The Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno
Creative Audio Visualizers
Recreating legendary 8-bit games music with Web Audio API
Visualizing sound in Go with SDL

Videos

Matt McKegg: I Play The JavaScript - JSConf.Asia 2015
Chris Lowis: A Brief History of Synthesis with the Web Audio API
Introducing the Web Audio API
CorkDev.IO - HTML 5 Web Audio API
Steve Kinney: Building a musical instrument with the Web Audio API | JSConf US 2015
Making the Web Rock: The Web Audio API
Jordan Santell: Signal Processing with the Web Audio API - JSConf2014
Making waves using the Web Audio API
Stuart Memo: JavaScript is the new Punk Rock
Jan Krutisch: JavaScript Patterns For Contemporary Dance Music -- JSConf EU 2013
Charlie Roberts: Gibbering at Algoraves - JS in Live Audiovisual Performances - JSConf.Asia 2014
Lauren McCarthy: Learning while making p5js
Interactive Music with Tone.js
Web Audio API vs Native: Closing the Gap
BRAID: A Web Audio Instrument Builder with Embedded Code Blocks
Web Audio Tools
HTML5DevConf: Jordan Santell, "Browser Dance Party: Visualizing Audio with the Web Audio API"
Praveen Kumar - MIDI.js
Mathieu 'p01' Henri: Making Realtime Audio-Visuals - JSConf.Asia 2015
Paul Adenot: Elements of Dance Music - JSConf.Asia 2015
8-bit Music Theory

Authors

Willian Justen
Luis Henrique
Márcio Ribeiro

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