Kyle Leve – Looking Outwards – 02

link: http://iquilezles.org/apps/soundtoy/index.html
Sound Toy Software

A generative art that I discovered this week that I found very interesting is the application known as Sound Toy. This application was created by Inigo Quilez in 2011, and its function is the use different mathematical formulas to create and design music and visuals only using the keys on a standard computer. The software utilizes a keyboard where different keys serve as different keys on the piano, thus making it possible to play a note with a single press of a key. There are also many other instruments that you can use and create sounds from! In addition, there are ways to design a wave using mathematical formulas to create a visual cue that goes with the music. I feel as though Quilez wanted to combine his love of visual effects as well as his love for sound/music, and that is apparent in his algorithms. What inspires me about this project is that there are so many elements to it that would make it seem so complicated to use, however all it takes to figure it out is just to mess around with different tools for a little while. I like how this application combines both sound and visual art to allow the user to easily create something that one may have previously assumed to be too complicated to use.