Temporal Typography for Musical Expression and Performance

This is the first prototype of programmable text rendering for musical expression. Press Play button below and wait for a few seconds. More demos are available at https://livewriting.github.io

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Programmable Text Rendering is a web based font rendering system that is programmable and enables interactive temporal typography. This is made in order to have text on a web browser that respond to music, audio signal and user interaction. With the programmable temporal typography, we turn plain text into a highly audiovisual medium and a musical interface which is visually expressive.

Related Papers

• Web-Based Temporal Typography for Musical Expression and Performance .
  Sang Won Lee, Georg Essl.
  In Proceedings of the New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME) 2015, Baton Rouge, United States

• Hooking up Web Audio to WebGL Typography .
  Sang Won Lee, Georg Essl.
  Demo Accepted in Web Audio Conference

More demos are available at https://livewriting.github.io