WeatherHum

This project uses your location (if you allow) to check your local weather and use the data to tune a drone synth and calibrate some video faders.

The synth is powered by Tone.js and the visuals powered by YouTube's iframe API and some JavaScript to fade the videos Below is a mapping of the weather data to the parts of the piece

You are advised to wear headphones :)

Day 1-3 cloudiness (%)

Video 1-3 max opacity and volume. As well as volume of the oscillators

Cloudiness controls how vibrant the videos are and how loud the piece can be

Current wind speed and day 1-3 wind speed

Auto filter LFO speeds, phaser frequency and the frequency of the auto panners

The faster the current and future wind the faster the filters oscillate, phaser phases and panners pan

Day 1-4 humidity (%)

Controls the base frequency of the auto filters

Humidity % controls where the auto filters begin oscillating at

Current dew point

Reverb decay time

Running the whole piece through reverb should take off any harsh edges, the higher the dew point the longer the decay time

Daily min and max temperature

Selected notes for the oscillators

An array of 11 notes in the G-flat pentatonic scale and an array of 11 octaves are used with the max and min temperature for the first 4 days forecast, each temperature is wrapped to 11 using the modulo operator.

Day 1-3 max temperature

Video fader step size

Day 1-3 max temp is the step size for each video fader, controlling how quickly the piece pulses, Math.abs() is used to clean any negative numbers

Day 1-4 daytime "feels like" temperature

Controls how detuned the oscillators are

The temperature is scaled by an order of magnitude and two of the oscillators have the temperature value inverted so to provide a better detuning effect sonically

Day 1, 2, 4 and 7 moon phase

Controls the phase position of the oscillators

Moon phase directly corresponds to oscillator phase, should create some interesting phasing effect.