Soundtoys.net | Stanza:amorphoscapes | Hoyle/Baker: Soundtoys.net navigator

Soundtoys.net, the brain-child of UK artist Stanza and veteran survivor of online interactive art, has relaunched in new glory. Retooled by Karsten Schmidt (aka toxi) in a new “web2.006 framework” called @emitter, Soundtoys has made the jump overnight from old-school semi-static site to being all-dynamic, tagged and blogged.

Soundtoys contains a wealth of old and not-so-old works, including more than a few gems from the productive period of Shockwave experimentation in the mid-to-late 90s. To get a good idea of the scope of the project, have a look at the artists page. It reads almost like a who’s who of a cross-section of new media art and experimental design.

Adam Hoyle and Julian Baker have contributed a soundtoys.net content navigator, which allows interactive navigation of the project database using the tags. Users can combine individual tags to combine them as a search, get a short description of the piece and launch it directly from the navigator. Although some of the pieces may make your browser complain about Shockwave’s brutish ways (or even crash outright), persisent browsers can expect (re-)discovery of particular gems.

Many props to Stanza for starting this community and keeping it alive, and to Karsten for his good-looking but über-functional publishing platform.

Update: Karsten just blogged a detailed description of the magic behind the scenes of the new Soundtoys.net. Read it over on toxi.in.process.

Some highlights:

• Soundtoys by Boredom Research
• John Weir: Sound of traffic
• Elout de Kok: Version v.005
• Gameboyzz Orchestra Project