Introducing Memory Decay
Memory Decay is now available as a browser-based generational decay instrument from EventFieldAudio.
Load an audio loop and it plays back through a process that gradually misremembers it, altering which fragments survive along with their timing, loudness, pitch, duration and harmonic relationship to the original. Each generation is derived from the previous damaged version rather than from your source file, so errors are inherited and the loop accumulates a history as it degrades. The medium erodes alongside the material: bandwidth closes, hiss rises, dropouts multiply and wow and flutter deepen.
Every generation is preserved in a branching lineage. You can return to an earlier version and hear it again, hold one still so it stops decaying, or fork a second decay from the same ancestor and let the two come apart. Individual generations can be rendered to WAV, or an entire lineage can be exported as one continuous piece: every ancestor in order, once each, from the original through to where you are now.
All audio processing takes place locally on your device: your source files are not uploaded to our servers.
Memory Decay is currently available as a beta release and works best in a current desktop version of Safari, Chrome, Edge or Firefox.
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Version 0.1.0-beta.1
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