Audio

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Auto Complete Tune

Play the piano, hold down a note, it extends your melody

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Freesound Timbral Explorer

Search for sounds (on Freesound) they "play" similar sounds.


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Echoes AR Walks

Create AR audio walks with this tool.


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MelodyMixer

Pull two melodies apart and see what AI generates for you.

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Moises

Extract backing tracks from songs

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Bear Audio Tool

Convert mp3 file to midi

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UberDuck

Uberduck is a sophisticated text-to-speech tool.


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Teleprompter

Lovely free, web-based tele-prompter, or autocue. Really helpful if you're recording a voice track.

It even has mirroring so you can hold a sheet of glass, and reflect onto it, looking straight at the camera. Nice.


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Wavacity

Like Audacity, but web-based. Easily edit audio.

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Latent Cycles

Start the beats and beeps, let it play on.


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Openverse: Creative Common Search

An updated Creative Commons search engine (sponsored by Wordpress). Much better.


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Sunvox

Make music with visual flow diagram programming. Amazing.


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Orca

"Esoteric" generative music coding tool. Can be a challenge to set up, it works with midi, but is so intriguing to use.


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PianoGenie

AI makes whatever keys you tap sound good (based on music it knows about)

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Midi City

Play some cool sounds and drums with your computer keyboard


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Incredibox

Have fun with a strange digital choir


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WebModular

Old skool synthesis, pulling out and plugging in wires. Interesting because you can type notes using strange notation.

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Sound Maker

A keyboard that let's you create sounds halfway between a cat and a trombone

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WolframTones

Generates music from parameters

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AudioShake

Isolate vocals or drums from a music track to get your own "clean" samples.


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Anchor Podcast

Easy way to publish podcasts

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AudioMass

Very nice browser-based audio editor, has echo, reverb etc effects.


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Acoustic Atlas

Do you want to hear what your voice would sound like in the Temple of Love in the Taj Mahal? Of course you do. You'll need headphones for this.


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DroneFX

Requires Flash. Really interesting drone/soundtrack generator... Creating a moody filmtrack? This might be useful.

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Minimal Browser-based Instruments

Can you make music with 3 unusual instruments?


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RiffShare

Very strange sound creator.

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Play Sound

Interesting tool that searches Freesound, and lets you create soundscapes by clicking samples repeatedly, or letting them loop.


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Tonespace

Tonespace lets you play one note and intelligently augments what you’re playing with chords and arpeggios.


It connects via Midi (so to a synth or Garageband) and plays musically similar notes. Because it generates midi, you can “record” it and then use it in whatever DAW you are using.


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Bespoke Synth

I'm in love. Bespoke Synth is a way to make music and sounds using a visual flow diagram metaphor. Never have I had more fun. This tool is fabulous and free. 


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Noises Online

Create immersive soundscapes, free wav download


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Rational Keyboard

Play an unusual rational keyboard. Very eno.


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Whyp

Music/audio hosting site.


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Novation

Just click the buttons and get a groove going


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Voice Changer

Chipmunk or Dalek?


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Freesound Timeline

Strange tool that takes the popular sounds from Freesound and turns them into an automatic soundscape.


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ImageToMusic

Turn an image into an audio file. What does a picture sound like?

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Typatone

Type and your words become notes


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Wotja

Amazing tool to generate ambient music.


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Clone Dub

Translate audio into a different language and keep the same voice (with AI)

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Wavvy

An audio editor VERY like Audacity, but in the brower.


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Musical Algorithms

Generate midi from data

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Web Audio Sequencer

Another strange tool. Search for sounds, add them, and then draw on the timeline grid to play them to create unusual beats and soundtracks.


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Extract Tracks From Audio

A tool to isolate tracks from an MP3 file.


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Patatap

Type an music and visuals just happen.


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GuitarMachine

Guitar riffs to mix n match

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Clarallel

This tool takes short texts and turns them into melodies


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Freesound Loop Generator

Search for sounds and create unusual loops of samples.


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SoundCite

Create stories with audio fragments. Great for music analysis.


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Online Sequencer

Work with midi files online

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Probe Audio Tool

Edit wavs etc.


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Osmosis Drone Generator

Create pleasant background sounds


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SonicGarbage

A sort of random-clips-of-youtube sequencer. Totally nuts.

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Samplette

Interesting tool to search YouTube for interesting samples to steal.


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Faust

Fairly complex programming for Digital Signal Processing (making crazy sounds)

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Defonic

Create immersive soundscapes

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Girl Talk In A Box

This strange tool lets you load and control a music track

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MotifN

Really Interesting Javascript-based live-coding music site.

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Ambient Mixer

Create background soundscapes


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Curio

AI generates an audio article on the subject of your choosing

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vGamelan

Numbers generate algorithmic music.

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Noisecraft

A web-based visual audio/music flow-coding thing a bit like PureData or BespokeSynth.

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In-G

Interesting sonification example that takes Github upload data and turns it into "music". See this article. NO LONGER ONLINE

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SoundBox

Small pattern-oriented web synth with which you can create electronic music very easily. Lots of fun once you figure it out.


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SoundTrap

Full audio midi workstation


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Faust Playground

Start audio processing with a flow diagram like language in the browser. OMG! Amazing!


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Vocaroo

Easy way to record or host audio

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BigWav

Audio transcription and annotation tool.

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AI to Midi

Upload an audio track, get midi back. You might have to split audio in basic tracks into instruments with a different tool (maybe https://www.lalal.ai/ or https://www.audioshake.ai/)

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Soundation

A full, multi-track sequencing tool.


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Groove Pizza

Create crazy beats with Groove Pizza


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Mosiac

Mosaic is a visual thinking toolkit made by artists, for artists. It is a visual patching creative-coding tool.


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SoundPlant

Amazing tool to "play" a collection of samples whilst manipulating them.


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PixelSynth

Image into audio


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Audacity

Audio editor with loads of effects.


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Basicpitch

A tool that turns any audio file into midi.


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SoundTrip

Totally crazy audio experience. Choose some words then travel in a universe made of those sound samples.


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YouDJ

Mix Soundcloud and Youtube track on two decks


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Key Chords

Discover new chord progressions. Requires Flash.

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Isadora

Visual coding to create amazing visual effects and project mapping projects.


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Audio Clash

Turn text into samples


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Adapter

A utility that converts audio, movies and images into various formats. Looks useful.


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Spiral Keyboard

A spiral piano keyboard

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Splitter

Split vocals from a music track.


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TwistedWave

Edit audio files, trim, copy, paste, reverse and add effects such as reverb.

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Radiooo

Listen to radio from different countries, from different decades.


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AudioSauna

Interesting synth and sampler app.

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GD Colon

What if you could only use emojis to make music? Bonkers!


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Neural Beatbox

Record some audio, analyze then generate rthyms

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Enhance Audio with Adobe

Not tried this, but it supposedly attempts to improve poor quality audio.

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BandLab

Oh my word! Amazing. A full audio workstation that works in the browser, on Android and iOS.


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ReCollection

Explore 10 years of sound in the most bizarre way

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ScribbleAudio

Paint to make sounds.


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Noisli

Generates ambient sounds for work and relaxation

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Infinite Drum Machine

Hundreds of samples for you to program into a rhythm

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Audio Dramas

Huge collection of audio dramas.

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World War II Soundscapes

Listen to a montage of radio etc.


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Ambient Garden

Audio experience

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Data Sonification Archive

This curated collection is part of a broader research endeavour in which data, sonification and design converge to explore the potential of sound in complementing other modes of representation and broadening the publics of data. 


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Example of Orca Being Played

Orca is a fantastic. spreadsheet-like way to code music.


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The Truth Hurts

The Truth Hurts is an audio adventure game on Spotify.


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Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room

From Wikipedia: I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece composed in 1969 and one of composer Alvin Lucier's best-known works.

The piece features Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the tape recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies (e.g. different between a large hall and a small room), the effect is that certain frequencies are emphasized as they resonate in the room, until eventually, the words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself.

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Listen To Wikipedia Updates

Visualisation of sorts that updates when Wikipedia edits are made

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Jazz Computer

Strange scrolling music piece

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Music Timelines

Explore music genres, discover new bands

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People Like Us

There are also more inventive forms of audible storytelling like sound collage. Here’s a piece by Vicki Bennett (aka ‘People Like Us’) which takes bits of radio (including The Archers) and tells new stories with them.


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Dancing Buildings

Audio visualisation, but of a navigable map


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Livecoding with FoxDot

Livecoding session. Watch people make music with code....LIVE!


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Database of Sonification Art

People turning data into sound


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5 Artists Who Are Masters of Glitch Music

One of the strange aspects of technology, whether analogue or digital, is its tendency to glitch. The ghost in the machines, as it were. With music software in particular, glitch and error have become desirable ingredients in sound design and musical composition.

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Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music

Large visualisation. Zoom in and listen to each genre, from Musique Concrete to Glitch Hop

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Maps.Fm

Listen to a podcast episode about places on a map.

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RadioGarden

Listen to radio from around the world

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EveryNoise

Discover a new music genre you didn't know you like.

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Gif The Dub

A live montage of memes and gifs and music

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Sound Effect Story

Simple but wonderful example of telling a story using only sound effects from Freesound.org

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Bartosz Ciechanowski Explains Sound Waves

Incredible resource explaining how sound works, with lots of interactive widgets.


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MusicMap

Explore music genres

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AudioCommons

Collection of really interesting audio projects that make use of Freesound.org's archive of sound files.


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REVEIL 24+1

Lovely project where on one day people all around the world will stream the sound of the dawn chorus where they are.


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HackPact

Lots of sonification examples.


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Ambient Artists List

Explore a pick of ambient artists, including my fave, Nurse With Wound

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Music Roamer

Explore music genres.

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Sound of AURORA BOREALIS 2 | SOUND OF SPACE

Auroral radio emissions are associated with the Northern Lights or Aurora. The most intense of these emissions is a phenomenon called Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR). It is produced in the auroral zones at an altitude between 3000 and 20 000 kilometres.


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The Truth Hurts

THE TRUTH HURTS is a choose-your-own-adventure book in Spotify.


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BBC Sound Effects

16,000 BBC sound effects for personal, educational or research purposes.


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Bit Midi

Large collection of midi files to use.


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Midi World

Collection of midi files

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Voicy

Lots of short audio samples, or "soundboards" that you can download.


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Royalty Free Soundtracks

Great list of Creative Commons audio files

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YouTube Audio Library

YouTube has bots that check your videos to make sure you haven't used a copyrighted music track in your video. All these tracks are free to use on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram & Twitch without copyright issues.

This guide shows you how to download tracks from the Audio Library.

There are also lots of sound effects to download too.

Pay special attention to attribution requirements, with any audio user ever.


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Classical Midi Files

Collection of classical midi files