My esteemed colleague Nik Rowell has graced these pages with some really cool Flash experiments in the past, which has inspired me to also explore the wonderful capabilities of ActionScript 3.

Audio visualization is a fun area to experiment in, as you can do some very interesting things with very little code. Nik showed us a unique way of looking at sound in this post. His code utilizes one mode of Flash’s sound compute spectrum method, which returns the raw sound wave data.

In my program I decided to use the Fourier transformation mode, which returns a set of calculations derived from the sound wave data. These calculations output a set of frequency numbers, starting with lows and ending with highs.

If your browser has Flash 9 installed click here to see a really cool song by Kate Havnevik brought to life with Flash. If you don’t see anything except the background right away, please be patient. On slower connections the sound may take a minute to load.

Tags: ActionScript, Cool, Experiments, Flash

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