This Week on Glitch: Randomosity!

We can’t control everything — some things are just random. But this week’s highlighted apps show the amazing things we can create when we let loose and embrace the randomosity.

Maurice Cherry
Sep 7, 2018 · 4 min read

Art+Code at XOXO 🖼️⌨️

But first, we’re excited to tell you about this evening’s Art+Code event at XOXO fest. MC’d by our own Director of Community Engineering, Jenn Schiffer, it’s an evening of creators working at the intersection of art and technology. Included in the incredible line-up are some of our favorite creators from the Glitch community, including Monica Dinculescu, Omayeli Arenyeka and Mozilla Open Web Fellow, Becca Ricks.


AI-powered Interactive Music 🎶🤖

Tero has combined Google Magenta MusicVAE, Magenta.js, TensorFlow.js, Tone.js, and three.js to create a musical experiment in which you can listen and move around a grid of musical measures generated by a neural network, creating your own musical patterns.

Do yourself a favor though and try it out on your desktop computer. This thing is making TensorFlow work hard in the browser and your mobile phone will struggle to keep up.


Remember This One? ☕👀


Become the Curator 👩‍🎨🎨👨🏽‍🎨


Make Your Own Art 🖌️🖼️


An Array of Live Coded Visuals ⌨️🌀


Featured Apps 🏅🏆

Turn-off-retweets by Julia Evans
Subscribe2Me by Kristen Cabrera
Literature-clock by Gareth Wilson
Crystalis-VR by Alfredo
Hydra by Olivia Jack
Box-maker by Tiffany Tseng

Our inaugural set of featured apps have been illustrated by Roman Muradov. Muradov is an award-winning artist who is Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts. He’s worked with major publications like The New Yorker and the New York Times, as well as tech brands like Dropbox and Notion. See more of his work on Instagram and his website.


Talking Tech with Baratunde Thurston 🗣️🎙️

We haven’t just spent the week playing around with awesome apps though (we pinky promise!) We squeezed in some time to chat with comedian and best-selling author Baratunde Thurston. We got into topics like the current climate around data privacy, social media, and why he uses humor to tackle tough topics. Check it out.

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Maurice Cherry

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Creative Strategist at Glitch. Creator of Revision Path, The Black Weblog Awards, and more. 🆕: https://mauricecherry.com/now

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