Musician Peter Chilvers has created a generative music website using multiple Flash players. The players run random loops of varying lengths so that the melodies and soundscapes shift constantly.
There are four pieces on the site currently. Alpha drifts along with dobro, cello, marimba, female voice, and a healthy dose of silence. Claude incorporates flute, piano, clarinet, and cello to establish moods that flow from peaceful to suspenseful to mysterious. Droplets combines a sparse collection of electric piano notes with a mutating Flash animation to accompany the music. Pentatonic sounds a bit thicker, using electronic drones and a shifting bass line.
My favorite piece so far is Alpha--very meditative and calming without fading into new-agey wallpaper pasting. I find myself engaging with it both consciously and subconsciously, depending on what else I am doing at a given time. The music is rewarding whether I actively pay attention to it or not.
For uber-randomness, try opening the same piece in two separate tabs, or do the same with different pieces. Alpha and Droplets merge quite nicely.
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