This was a total surprise for me. Trace+Mrdoob joined their powers together and built this nice HTML5 Javascript demo called "Or so they say...", using my song "A dream of sorts" as its soundtrack.

It's really interesting to see how the same song inspires different things to each person. I personally didn't picture universes, galaxies and stars when I composed the song. It was more something akin to sulphur, colour gradients and a general blurriness after a long day of driving through Iceland and enjoying exciting, strange and unexpected sights.

I love the demo in itself, but also (obviously!) because it's got my music, and because it is made with Javascript, and anyone can learn from it; and because mrdoob keeps adding new stuff to it and it gets instantly updated, it being an online version; but above of everything, I love it because it really makes sense to call it a demo: it is a true demonstration of what you can do with a nowadays, modern browser.

And this brings me to that absurd rage which is slowly but certainly developing in certain demoscene factions: the ones who exclusively use Windows in their computers and could never understand why people using platforms other than Windows could feel slightly discriminated in the scene. Now they look confused, demanding a video because they WOULD NEVER INSTALL CHROME! A video for an HTML demo! Guys, you're just ridiculous and obviously have lost the entire point of this -- it being that HTML is multiplatform, and allows people using any operating system to access and experience the demo. Right, except probably Mac OS because it's not that good, but anyway, you clearly don't get it, so why not just shut up and experience the same frustration people using Linux have been experiencing for years when you told them to install Windows if they wanted to watch a demo?

Yeah, I'm being slightly cynical here. But only slightly.

In any case, I'm glad these small groups of people are just that--small, and everyone else is a tad more open minded and understands that for the HTML technologies to improve, we really need demos like this which push the browser capabilities even more forward and encourage competition amongst browsers. This can only be good, and I really prefer that to a future where we all use the same cumbersome, tedious operating system and the same cumbersome, tedious browser for tedious, boring stuff. I say, let's bring some fun back to browsers!!

And here's some background about the demo if you're interested.

I heard about 1-bit music some years ago only; since I never owned an Sinclair Spectrum, and never got to play with one in a silent environment (i.e. not in a mall) I never knew how did the Spectrum's beeper sound like.

I believe the (first and) last time I heard about 1 bit music I also was able to download a ZIP file containing several beeper tunes, but since I don't know which site it was, here's a sample song from the author of the blog (Shiru) at 8 bit collective: River City Rancor

Now I wonder if there's some sort of similar stuff for Arduino. It might be an interesting project to experiment with very lo-fi music.

Update (a few minutes later): maybe that site I mention was this one which has a bunch of 1-bit music from various almighty composers such as Ben Daglish!

It's on soundcloud as well, just in case you're into that:

Eyjafjallajökull by supersole

Let's keep it short, here are the songs:

• Banana Shouffle
• How original!
• a.b.r.i.l. (original version)
• hyper birthday

They aren't new strictly speaking, but I hadn't added them here yet. I have more songs to add, so hopefully there will be more updates like this one soon :-)

Here's another video featuring songs of mine, although this time it's a bit more serious than the previous ones.

The main aim of this video is to raise awareness of lupus, a pretty serious condition who can totally ruin patients lives and is pretty much unknown to date. Lots of research need to be done yet.

The video features two of my songs: Glacier (from 1:53 to 2:31) and A dream of sorts (from 2:59 to 3:10 - this fragment is really short!).