Field instrument 01Local audio study

Sound grows here.

Open the mic. Fill the screen. Watch whatever is playing in the room become a living, beat-aware specimen.

Processed only on this device. Never recorded.

A pressed fern unfurls into concentric sound waves and golden pollen on a dark field-guide plate.
FIG. 01 Dryopteris sonora — a study in room sound
01 / Listen
The room mic hears dynamics, not words.
02 / Find the pulse
Onsets and tempo shape every scene.
03 / Let it grow
Twelve original specimens rotate with the phrase.

Specimen conditions

Tune the growth

Private control link

Use your phone as a remote

Scan once. Your phone sends preset and colour controls directly to this screen; microphone audio never leaves it.

Room code

Preparing…

Creating a private room…

Connection note

Pairing uses PeerJS’s public signalling service to introduce the two browsers. Control messages then travel peer to peer. If a network blocks WebRTC, the visualizer keeps working normally.

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One-time purchase. Sociobot/Dodo is the merchant of record and handles refunds. The eight free specimens remain yours to use.