Musaic Room · concatenative musaicing

The room plays itself back.

The microphone is the only input. Every sound the room hears is remembered as a grain, and each new moment is rebuilt from the nearest match in that growing memory — sparse and literal at first, dense and uncanny as the corpus fills.

Feature map · brightness × loudness

Idle

Each dot is one remembered grain, placed by its real spectral centroid (x) and RMS loudness (y), fading from violet as it ages. The bright dot is the present moment; the line points to the past grain being played in its place, ring pulsing on the match.

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Give it a minute of talking, humming, or ambient noise — the reconstruction thickens as the room accumulates more of itself to draw from. No microphone? Use the internal demo source.

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The dream lab — Karel Barnoski