Having a lazy Sunday? Love music? A group of friends spent the last few year’s worth of Sundays creating the perfect weekend-activity for you. BlokDust is a visual music-making map that runs in your browser and let’s you build your own synthesizer out of tiny musical blocks.
Having a lazy Sunday? Love music? A group of friends spent the last few year’s worth of Sundays creating the perfect weekend-activity for you. BlokDust is a visual music-making map that runs in your browser and let’s you build your own synthesizer out of tiny musical blocks.
Luke Phillips, one of BlokDust’s creators, posted it to Reddit $RDDT earlier this week. It has received hundreds of positive comments and spawned a new subreddit for users to share their creations. Among them is a fuzzy, chip-tune rendition of Ah Ha’s “Take On Me.” (Click the block next to the arrow to begin playing it.) Also, this mesmerizing original composition.
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The utterly delightful, slickly-designed app allows you to create music by wiring together a variety of different components, sort of like musical Legos. Some blocks establish a tone. Other blocks turn them on and off—just once or in cycles. Still others allow you to modulate or distort the output. There is even a microphone block so with a little effort you could totally turn yourself into Darth Vader.
The learning curve for the app can be a bit steep, but if you stick with it you’ll be making music in no time. If you make something great, why not tweet your creation to @qz.
