🚏 music for bus stops

AMBIENT ⬢

MUSIC FOR BUS STOPS

BOOTLEGGED BY BOBBY MEYER

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algorithmic ambience on the cheap

Bootlegged by Bobby Meyer, 2023.

Static. Open index.html, or serve the folder:

python3 -m http.server

p5 and p5.sound load from a CDN. The samples and the cover are in the repo.

Do this	Get this
Click the album art	Start generating
Click again	Stop, letting the playing voices finish
Resize the window	Canvas follows, to a maximum of 600px


Samples	Eight mp3s, `samples/p1`–`p8`, picked at random with replacement
Voices	At most 3 at once
Playback rate	`2/3` — a perfect fifth down
Gap between entries	3–10s while there is room for another voice
Last voice	The next enters 0.25–1s before it ends, so the sound never drops out
At the cap	Waits 1–3s, then re-decides

Samples are trimmed to just their sound, so the space between entries is made at playback, not baked into the files.

An FFT per sample is drawn over the cover while it plays.

File	Holds
`index.html`	The page: loads p5, the styles and the sketch
`sound.js`	The sketch — `preload` loads the samples and cover, `draw` renders the FFT, `playMusic` is the loop
`sound.css`	Album-art layout
`map.png`	The cover: a halftone topographic map
`samples/`	Eight mp3 samples

p5.js 1.11.3 and p5.sound, from jsDelivr. No build, no dependencies, no package manager.