Wikipedia
HackerNews
GitHub
Webarmonium is a new instrument.
Traditional instruments translate a performer's physical gestures into sound. Webarmonium replaces the individual gesture with two forms of distributed interaction:
1. Network activity as unconscious performance
The landing page connects to three real-time data streams—Wikipedia edits, HackerNews posts, and GitHub commits. Each event contributes to the advent of a note: position determines frequency, source determines timbre. The resulting composition emerges from collective human activity, with no single author.
2. Remote motor gestures as collaborative performance
In private rooms, up to 4 users become performers. Tap, hold, and drag gestures generate musical phrases. The room develops "environmental memory"—interaction patterns shape its tonal character over 24 hours.
The system is fully deterministic: identical input produces identical output. There is no randomness, only the structured translation of human activity into sound.