Experience AR Music with Airwwave: Conduct Ambient Soundscapes

Experience AR Music with Airwwave: Conduct Ambient SoundscapesExperience AR Music with Airwwave: Conduct Ambient Soundscapes

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Lee Black

• Mar 1

Imagine conducting ambient music in mid-air. It's like Minority Report, but instead of solving crimes you’re just gently adjusting your nervous system.

For #FigmaMakeathon I built Airwwave (AR) in #FigmaMake: a fullscreen performance instrument where gestures become live ambient soundscapes. It’s built to feel like conducting, not clicking.

Video is long because it’s a performance piece. I’m still hunting bugs, improving responsiveness, and cross browser performance until deadline.

Try it: https://airwwave.figma.site

Features: 28 ambient loops (hosted on Cloudinary), 12s fade in/out, 7-step LCD onboarding with 0–100% hold bar, 2-hand tracking + skeleton, 28 pads.

Gestures/FX: select + trigger, speed, reverb, octave, lock, stereo width + pan, tremolo/echo motion, filter resonance, volume shaping.

Completed work

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MA Rakib Khan

• Mar 2

good work

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Thank you!

Srishti Verma

• Mar 3

Great👍

Subash Chandra

pro

• Mar 2

good work

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Thanks!

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Social post: https://x.com/mrblackstudio/status/2028234320490725698

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Other socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVW9P_xCVnN/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7434001611019988992/

Kal Design

• Mar 2

good job

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Cheers Kal!!

Victoria Lishchuk

pro

• Mar 2

OMG! This is sooooooo cool!

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Hey Victoria 🙌 Glad you think so!

Victoria Lishchuk

pro

• Mar 2

Spend an hour playing with it!

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Amazing! I’m almost done with the autoplay feature so you kick back and sleep to endless ambient 🧘‍♀️

Danny Maddock

• Mar 2

Love this, I'd upgoat twice if I could

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Ha nice one. @ mods, we need double upgoating.

Sam Gray

• Mar 2

Awesome, Lee!

Lee Black

• Mar 2

THanks Sam!

Alexis Presa

max

• Mar 2

Lee always showing up with the craziest Teenage Engineering-esque vibes. Crazy cool 💪🏼💪🏼

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Haha you know me too well. Still working on it so hopefully it’s way smoother with more conducting features by end of tonight 😅

Angel Ye

• Mar 2

so sickkkk

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Glad you like it! Keep coming back for more as I'm fixing bugs and improving performance/features.

Jui Patel

• Mar 2

It's so calming

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Yeah when you find your jam, you can kick back and let it take you away.

Muhammad Sohail

• Mar 2

so cool

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Cool comment :) Thanks!

Cara Ellis

max

• Mar 2

sooo good!!

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Thank you Cara!

Gracie Williams

• Mar 2

wow insane

Lee Black

• Mar 2

hehe it can feel like that. Glad you like it :)

Akin Gundogan

• Mar 2

Liked colors, and minimal, kinda "Swiss" &/ "Rams" kind of design & vibe! 👍

Lee Black

• Mar 2

My usual jam! Glad you like it Akin!

Lee Black

• Mar 2

PLEASE TEST in Chrome whilst I debug and optimise on Safari.

Sasha Balandina

• Mar 2

stunning work!

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Thanks Sasha 🫶

Alex Tatu

• Mar 2

Glad to see you here, Lee. Nice work btw

Lee Black

• Mar 2

You too Alex. I’m just getting my profile setup here on Contra. After I’m done on this project, I’ll be dropping lots of case studies 😅

Alex Tatu

• Mar 2

Hahaha, I am doing the same :)

Afshan khan

• Mar 2

Awsm

Lee Black

• Mar 3

🙌

Josue Perez

pro

• Mar 2

Amazing! As someone who learned ProTools way before Figma, I am captivated.

David Hwang

• Mar 2

dieter rams would be happy

Lee Black

• Mar 2

Well not if he knew how much electricity I used to create it 😝

Marwan Hazem

• Mar 2

This looks amazing but using it is quite difficult

Lee Black

• Mar 3

Yeah, I get that. But once you get the hang of turning a few sounds on and off, it starts to feel natural. The other thing is that there's no right or wrong way of using it, in the sense that you don't need musical training. Once the sounds are playing, it's about pushing the...

Madi 💫

max

• Mar 3

oh this is SIIIICK

Lee Black

• Mar 3

Thanks Madi :)

Lee Black

• Mar 3

New autoplay mode just dropped. Two minutes of expressive hand conducted sound bending. No clicks. No loops. No “press play and hope.”

Under the hood it’s slightly unhinged (in a good way). Sounds trigger at random intervals, for random durations, with random crossfades, but...

Abdulazeez Ishaq

pro

• Mar 3

love it!

Lee Black

• Mar 3

Thanks man!

Bratasena Anggabayu Bhirawa Yudha

• Mar 3

very clean

Lee Black

• Mar 4

Thanks!

samuel azuobu

• Mar 3

wow

Lee Black

• Mar 3

Thanks!

Brigitte Demba

max

• Mar 3

Yoooo this is soo lit 🔥🔥

Lee Black

• Mar 3

Yeah let's goooo 🔥 — thanks Brigette!

Caleb Afolabi

• Mar 3

Looks good

Lee Black

• Mar 3

Cheers Caleb!

Debashis Sarker

• Mar 3

This is incredible!

Lee Black

• Mar 3

Wow. Thanks a lot Debashis!

Yuliia Snihyr

• Oct 29

Melting Point is on Dribbble now ☺️🌍 A website concept about global warming, with a melting Statue of Liberty at the center. As you scroll, the scene slowly changes — until there’s water where the monument used to be. Wanted to explore how motion could tell this story. Sharing a closer look at the result 🖤 What do you think? https://dribbble.com/shots/27839407-Melting-Point-A-Climate-Story

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