Ambient music that never repeats itself.
When listening on a phone, please unmute your device.
Infinite Afternoon gives you always-changing ambient music, available on the web.
All notes and effects are played at randomly selected intervals. Due to these intervals, every user will hear completely unique interplay between notes, no matter how many times you refresh or how long you leave it open.
Infinite Afternoon is inspired by Brian Eno's piece 'Thursday Afternoon'. Eno's piece is ultimately limited in time due to the nature of music distribution, while Inifinite Afternoon could potentially go on forever.
I have created the samples with Ableton Live.
The page is created with HTML/CSS and JavaScript. In JavaScript I use the Web Audio API to play and manipulate the audio files.
The 'drops' you see are aligned with the panning of the notes.
No. All sounds were created by me, and the timing is done based on rules. Claude did help with some of the programming.
Yes! Click or tap anywhere to drop a note. On a keyboard, A–H play the high notes and Z–B the low piano notes. You can even plug in a MIDI keyboard and enable it with the 'midi' button — every key is pitched from the original samples.
Email me at afternoon@erwinvk.nl for anything! Maybe we can team up to make something great. Or maybe you have an idea, or something is not working correctly. Let me know!
Also check out erwinvankester.nl.