Synesthesia, make noise music with a colorpicker
Details
- External ID
- 46715766
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Synesthesia, make noise music with a colorpicker
- Website domain
- visualnoise.ca
- Launched
- Jan. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 39
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7582345191040843
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
This is a (silly, little) app which lets you make noise music using a color picker as an instrument. When you click on a specific point in the color picker, a bit of JavaScript maps the binary representation of the clicked-on color's hex-code to a "chord" in the 24 tone-equal-temperament scale. That chord is then played back using a throttled audio generation method which was implemented via Tone.js.NOTE! Turn the volume way down before using the site. It is noise music. :)
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and learning tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- music creation from color input
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a small client-side web utility combining an HTML5/React color picker with the Web Audio API to map hex values to microtonal synth frequencies.
Discussion
13 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Quake Brutalist Jam collections
Concerns raised: Default volume too loud, causing hearing damage, Output flatlining/distortion with dense chord layering, Source code minified and unclear, Missing or unclear LICENSE information
Feature requests: Add output limiter to prevent distortion, Lower default volume settings, Document sonification scheme more clearly
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 272 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #51 of 273 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 85 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Tunevate · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- See chords as flags · hn · 2025-11-05 · 129 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Chaos Studies · hn · 2026-02-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Mechanical Keyboard Sounds App: KeyJoy · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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