The demos show just how much the Web Audio API can do, and the possibilities that can be built on it.Īccording to a statement on the Chrome Music Lab website: “Music is for everyone. As well as the more education-focused tools, which teach the basics of harmonics, chords, arpeggios and rhythm in a neat visual and interactive way, there’s an interactive spectrogram that reveals what sounds look like in real time, an oscillator demo with cute singing shapes, an abstract Kandinsky-inspired sequencer, and a tool that lets you record and “Spin” your own vocals through your laptop’s microphone.

The initiative was created as part of the USA’s Music In Our Schools Month, but we can see just as many adults wasting their lunch hours away with it. It works great on desktops, but is geared more towards mobile devices, as many of experiments are meant to be touched and work best with a touchscreen. The website, which could be seen as a musical companion to the Google Doodle, is a collaboration between coders and musicians built using Chrome and the Web Audio API, an open web standard that allows developers to create and manipulate sound in a browser. The Chrome Music Lab is a collection of interactive instruments that allow you to experiment with music through your browser.

A new collection launched yesterday, however, adds a new edge to the JavaScript hacks service, which reveal the deceptively deep musical possibilities of the platform. Google struck digital gold with their Chrome Experiments, which showed off the cool things you can pull off with little more than a simple Web browser these days.

Chrome music experiments