cytophone — a collection of seven

cytophone

Seven browser instruments for small synthetic ecologies. Seed, strike, bow, pluck, drag, press, or wait: each cytophone maps body shape, motion, contact, live data, and wet/dry space into sound. Press 'h' to hide the HUD.

low · struck membrane · 58–360 hz

A percussion environment where visual cell bodies act as membrane resonators to produce gong-like strikes shaped by size, drift, and collision.

mid · bowed boundary · 140–520 hz

A fluid acoustic environment where live marine data—such as wave height, period, and current velocity—directly dictates the harmonic detuning, spectral tilt, and resonant breathing of floating cellular bodies.

high · struck alloy · 78–1020 hz

A modal-synthesis instrument that generates glass-metal clusters by mapping acoustic traits to nonliteral visible properties like lightness, jaggedness, and hue.

fiber · pluck/scrape · 85–720 hz

A playable connective graph where drawing and plucking fibers translates structural tension, friction, and topological strain into string and reed-like sounds.

seismic · mineral friction voices · live quake feed

A generative geological interface where mineral composition determines timbre. Live tectonic data scatters six friction archetypes, from struck copper to basalt groan, across a stereo field.

flock · chirp · collision pings

A flocking simulation that generates a shimmering network of oscillator pings through proximity and collisions, actively tuned by live atmospheric conditions.

pore · pressure · aerophone

A pressure-sensitive aerophone of pore-like entities that exhales autonomous, randomized breathing sounds governed directly by live weather data.