Musical Collaboration with an Asteroid

[Ted]

asteroidblock.io is a web-based, interactive, atmospheric pad synthesizer which queries NASA's asteroid API, using live proximity data to throttle initial parameters of the synth.

This seems like a really cool idea. Maybe someone more MIDI savvy can make it work. I click play and I get nothing; no sound, just the visual of the MIDI marching along.

If you can make it work, let me know what you did.

[Pete C]

I've just tried it.. did you click on some of the blocks before you pressed play?  I was getting sound from it.

[Ted]

I've just tried it.. did you click on some of the blocks before you pressed play?  I was getting sound from it.

Duh.

I thought the data was going to provide note values, and generate melodies – or something. But I see that the synth parameters switch depending on the asteroid you choose.