Very Cool Website
Today's New York Times has an intriguing story about a fascinating website created by English composer Sam Hayden and a team of artistic collaborators, that offers an "interactive orchestral work written specifically for the vast expanse of cyberspace." The site, 3D Music, features dozens of sound files embedded in a series of three-dimensional environments that the user may manipulate as a computer game. "Travel from the center of a chamber to a distant edge and listen as braying strings yield to angular piano chords," says the NYT. "Topple a brown rectangle and trigger a cackle of brass."