March 2018

Music albums

This entry is a stub, and will be expanded on a future archiving pass.

Lots of people made books where each page played a different song. They'd put down the book to play music while working.

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Some songs displayed appropriate visual effects.

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La Tabla (2016) interprets dots and drawings as a musical score.

With Robits (2016), it plays a physical xylophone.

Beats of the World (2017) is a multicultural rhythm sequencer.

Music cards (2017) form arpeggiator landscapes.

Chord game (2017) makes chords across the room.

Radial sequencer (2017) plays the pages around it.

Happy Birthday Paula (2017) played by a path-following robot.

Music albums (2018) are books of songs.

Also, animations: Scarborough, Don't worry...

Tom's Diner (2018) reads its own lyrics.

DSP Kit (2018) is a modular synthesizer.

DSP Kit (2020) is a more advanced modular synthesizer.

MIDI (2023) controllers, sequencing, sampling, synthesis, the whole shebang.

Controlling a video by flipping physical pages began with Robert's Video binder (2015) and Blue Book / Silver Book (2015).

In Toby's Video binder (2016), videos play on the page itself, and the pages can be moved and removed.

Realtalk made it trivial to put together dynamic books, such as Toby's Particle binder (2017) or Isaac’s The Owl's Surprise (2017).

Once Luke added video support, video pages were one line of code. Examples include Virginia's Fun Times At Dynamicland (2017) and Bret's Meme Kit (2017).

Bret's Alan talks (2017) includes a moving playhead.

Audio books were more popular. Music albums (2018).

Sofy and Ria's Cosmic Odyssey (2018) incorporates video into an art book.

Bret's Video wall (2021) includes bound packets of related videos.

Bret's Video books (2022) have formatted images and text, with a moving playhead and laser-seeking.