Audrey Zheng – Looking Outwards – 11

Atlås from binaura on Vimeo.

 

The creators: Binaura is making creative coding, interaction design, experimental interfaces, sonic toys and other, reactive environments. The collective regularly gives international workshops and lectures on these topics. The collective consists of Ágoston Nagy and Bence Samu.

Atlås is an anti game environment that generates music among a conversational cognitive space. As part of its existence, there are automatically generated tasks that are solved by machine intelligence without the need of human input. It also asks questions ad infinitum: questions that are dealing with presence, human cognition and imagination, corporate driven automatisms, advanced listening practices, silence.

I picked this beautiful app because of its beautiful generative UI. I love the geometric forms, flat design with shadows, circular text and color scheme. It makes for a very aesthetically pleasing composition.

How it was made: The project is developed with free and open source tools with an educational aspect in mind. The main application is written in javascript, using the p5js library that is embedded into a regular Swift iOS application. This example template can be used to write and play with your own app using p5js within an iOS app. The sound synthesis is written in Pure Data, that is a useful graphical programming language to develop interactive sonic events. It can be integrated into all type of projects and applications using LibPd. This example template can be used to write and play with your own app using libPd within an iOS app.