Three web applications realizing the concept of Collective Instrument — an idea tracing back to Walter Smetak: rather than one person handling one instrument, many people handle a single instrument together.
These applications are web realizations of the Collective Instrument concept: every action by every person currently accessing the instrument is reflected in real time. You may be alone, or you may be one among many. What matters is to sense the presence of other players — whoever they may be, there is no way to know. If no one is touching the application, its state is preserved until the next person arrives. In other words, what you encounter now reflects the accumulated intentions of everyone who has ever touched it.
music of the spheres (2026)
A physical-model planetary instrument. Drag the moving bodies to change the music. All interactions persist across the network — the instrument retains the memory of everyone who has ever played it, and continues forever.
world wide cobweb synthesizer (2026)
A collective synthesizer built from the modern cobweb — the web itself. Anyone can play simultaneously. Someone on the other side of the network may cooperate with your actions, or undo them entirely.
oracle boards (2026)
A poetry-generating collective instrument modelled on oracle traditions and the Ouija board. Boards are synchronised across clients; the ball moves independently for each person.