WEEK 8

This week I talked to Chris about my Nosfell project and said I was a little disappointed because at the beginning of the semester I wanted to find a really innovative project with a totally new concept. I admitted the navigation concept I would use in the Nosfell project would be the same as in pianoGraphique and thought I should find another idea that doesn't already exist. BUT he told me not to worry, that finding a really new idea of project on the web is almost impossible nowadays and that every new idea is always the adaptation of an old one. He assured me that it won't be the same project because I will bring my vision, my personality, my background and my feelings to it. And he said he found the ideas of this project sounded interesting.
From this conversation, I've lost most part of my doubts and I'm now ready to think quietly and with confidence in this project. Doubts are indispensable to the creation process but when the rate of belief in your project is more important that the rate of doubt, you can be quite sure that you'll go forward much faster. That's my case now.
When I talked about my project, it made Chris think of Studio Tonne, a multimedia studio specialized in sonorous experimental projects. The website gathers these really interesting projects:

A day at Studio Tonne

A day at Studio Tonne is a funny project dealing with the ideas of jackpot rolls, sonorous and visual combination.
By passing the mouse on one of the men it make it roll and display another picture of the man in another funny situation. When you click on one picture, it loads the animation with a corresponding sound. It creates a mix quite funny after having clicked on the three men.

Moby Hotel

Moby Hotel is a very good website using the hotel metaphor, each floor sending the user to a specific section.
When you visit this website, you are talked as a client of the hotel from the beginning to the end. It's when a concept is totally exploited that it works the best.

It includes lots of musical games such as the really ingenious application SonicDRAW!
With this project, the user is asked to create a drawing in 20 sec thanks to 10 colour pencils. Each colour represents a specific extract of a song. The longer you keep the mouse button pressed, the longer your line is and the longer the extract is. So if you combine different colours in your drawing, you'll have an original musical mix.
This application change the status of the user, from spectator he becomes actor and even composer in a way. This is a promotionnal website so the sounds used are only the ones of Moby cds so sometimes the mix created aren't so good but with appropriate and complementary sounds, it could work much better.

LanaToy

LannaToy is a sequencer presented and functioning quite lightly differently from the usual ones.
The interface is quite nice but it's not so easy to understand how it works.

Depeche Mode soundtoy

Depeche Mode soundtoy is another sequencer, looking like real ones.
I liked the simplicity of this application, it's really easy to create your own music. Again we only have the restricted choice of the Depeche Mode catalogue. I also liked the possibility to save the music you've just created. I'll take some inspiration for my own project.

NoiseToy

NoiseToy deals with musical loops.
An experimental sound project that makes lots of noise at the beginning but when you learn to control it, it becomes really enjoyable.