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AGAV INSTRUMENTS

sound instruments that play in your browser —
nothing installed, nothing transmitted

No need to read music. Here you draw, you load an image, you step in front of a camera, you drop marbles, you speak into a mic, you paste text, you tame feedback — and the machine turns the gesture into sound. Headphones or speakers with bass recommended: some instruments go very low.

EXPERIMENTAL

the gesture, the image, the place — sixteen pieces

TRACÉS

draw your score — the machine plays it

Three colour-voices, a sheet of staff paper, your finger. Top is high, bottom is low, emptiness is silence. Six example scores to start, from 1 minute to 1 hour, share by link and WAV export.

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RÉVÉLATEUR

load an image — hear what it holds

Every image hides a music: the machine scans it left to right like a spectrogram. Bright sounds, dark falls silent, colours travel in stereo. Three scales, negative mode, from holiday photo to abstract painting.

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L'ŒIL

the camera watches — the place sounds itself

A bright line listens to the camera image continuously. Wave your hand, step closer, dance: your body draws the music in real time. Built for installation — full screen, speakers, and the eye runs on its own.

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OMNIDRONE

generative noise synth · drone · infra — for explorers

The stage instrument: sixteen knobs, five presets (Abysse, Halo, Trame, Fracture, Dérive), a self-generated 20-minute piece, rupture, freeze, XY pad, MIDI control and recording. Warning: infrasound — subwoofer recommended.

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BILLES

draw lines, drop marbles — gravity composes

Trace strings on the sheet, drop marbles: they fall, bounce and trigger notes at every hit. The chance of physics writes music you'd never have composed by hand. Automatic rain mode.

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CELLULES

draw a garden of cells — it evolves and sings on its own

Conway's game of life turned instrument. Draw cells, start the evolution: they are born and die by three simple rules, and every birth is a note. Gliders, pulsars, guns — emergence as music.

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VOIX

speak, sing, breathe — your voice becomes a pad

Capture a few seconds of voice and the machine stretches it to the extreme, freezing it into a continuous drone — spectral time-stretch. A simple “ahh” becomes a cathedral. Adjustable pitch, grain and movement.

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SPECTRE

move your hand in the air — play without touching

A theremin for the camera: the position of your hand in the air controls pitch and volume, with no contact. Left-right for the note, up-down for intensity. Vibrato, glide, three timbres. Your gesture becomes the bow.

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ONDES

glide along the ribbon — the crystal resonates

The ribbon of the Ondes Martenot and the metallic halo of the Cristal Baschet, together: a continuous glissando with no fixed notes, extended by a bank of inharmonic resonators that make each sound sing on. Expressive portamento.

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ORAMICS

draw the shape of the sound — it sounds like your line

A tribute to Daphne Oram, who drew sound onto film. Trace the waveform on one side, the envelope on the other: the machine builds exactly the timbre you drew. The graphic gesture becomes a sound wave, literally.

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RÉSEAUX

a system of unstable loops — tame the feedback

In the spirit of David Tudor's Rainforest: four resonant nodes pass the sound back and forth in a loop. Move them, set the coupling, disturb — and the network sings on its own, on the edge of chaos, never twice the same. Safety limiter.

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PROMENEUR

paste a text — it becomes a path the ear walks

A soundwalk in the spirit of Hildegard Westerkamp: each letter becomes a note, spaces become silences, punctuation becomes accents. A poem, a message, coordinates — every text carries a hidden music. Four walks ready.

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PHASES

two loops that slowly drift out of phase

Steve Reich's process: two copies of the same phrase, one a hair faster, sliding against each other. Ghost patterns, echoes, then the phase reforms. Start from a motif or record your voice.

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ESCALIER

a sound that rises endlessly — and never arrives

The Shepard-Risset illusion: eight stacked octaves, where the highs fade out as the lows reappear. The endless sonic screw. Continuous glide or stair-steps, rising or falling.

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ÉCOUTEUR

the mic listens to the place — the machine freezes it

The mic captures the spectrum of the room around you and tunes it into a living pad. With one button, freeze the instant: the soundscape suspends into a held chord. In the spirit of Westerkamp and Schafer. Nothing is transmitted.

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MÉTÉO

place a point where you are — the machine sounds it

A presence pad: calm or restless, dark or bright. Place the point where you feel, and the moment takes on a sound. Made to open a session or a round of check-ins — to say something of yourself without words.

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STAGE & LIVE

to play, mix, make people dance

AGAV ENGINE

the full suite — eleven modules and a mixer

The whole workbench: eleven modules of synthesis and noise — PULSE, SEUIL, STRATE, FRICTION, ÉCART, BRÛLURE… — around the AGAMIX mixer. Enough to build a piece end to end.

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MACHINES

the rhythmic hub — acid, 808, 909, supersaw

Four live machines: acid bass, 808 box, 909 box and supersaw pad, run through a Xone:96-style mixer. Independent clocks, VU meters, full MIDI learn.

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VERSION

dub system — Jamaica · Berlin · contemporary

Dub techno in three historical scenes: from the Jamaican sound system to 90s Berlin to today's grain. Echoes, surges of reverb, deep bass.

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MEDITATION

to slow down — not to play

PLEINE CONSCIENCE

drone, binaural and breathing

A generator to settle: harmonic drone, binaural beats, pink noise, water, wind, drops and bells, with a breathing guide. The only instrument you don't need to play.

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Everything works offline once the page is loaded. No image, no sound, no data leaves your device. Works on computer, tablet and phone (Chrome or Firefox recommended — MIDI requires Chrome).

AGAV — Arnaud Vanni, Geneva
Lineage: Iannis Xenakis's UPIC · Evgeny Murzin's ANS synth · Cornelius Cardew's Treatise
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