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A choir for your complaint
Type something small that is wrong and a choir sings it back in four parts.
Sampleton Complaints ChoirRehearsing
Tell the choir what is wrong.
Move the pointer up and down over the stage to conduct: higher is bigger.
The kettle is never full enough
6 singers: short words are sopranos, long words are basses. Sound only starts when you press the button.
Remake it
Build one interactive web page: Sampleton Complaints Choir. Every word of your grievance is a singer: its length picks the voice, its letters pick the note and the vowel, and the chords go round I, V, vi, IV, so a petty complaint sounds like a finale. Conduct with the pointer, sing it with sound or silently, and when it is upheld take away the sheet music for your complaint or send a link so someone else can have it sung to them. Set it on an invented business called Sampleton, with its own drawn or generated pictures and no one else's files. It suits: A joke you want to send, a staff room, a brand with a sense of humour, a place that wants people to smile before they write to it. Do not let it fail the way this kind of piece usually does: A sound that nobody can hear or an effect with nothing to keep. Here sound starts only on a button, the choir can sing silently with the same timing, the peak level is measured and published, the sheet music is drawn from the same plan the choir sang, and every control is a button. It must work with the keyboard, on a phone, with reduced motion respected and no text under 12px. Tell me which libraries you chose and why.
Notes: when it suits, when it does not, how it fails
- When it suits
- A joke you want to send, a staff room, a brand with a sense of humour, a place that wants people to smile before they write to it.
- When it does not
- A real complaint process. The choir upholds everything, which is the joke, and a customer with a genuine problem needs a person.
- How it fails
- A sound that nobody can hear or an effect with nothing to keep. Here sound starts only on a button, the choir can sing silently with the same timing, the peak level is measured and published, the sheet music is drawn from the same plan the choir sang, and every control is a button.
Built after Pete's verdict of 'boring' on the configurator plates: a small funny thing worth sending to a friend, using Web Audio formant singing and a plan that drives the picture, the sound and the score together.