Sonogram's April Glow-Up: A Vinyl, A Particle Storm, and A Landscape That Won't Stop Pulsing

Two weeks, three new music visualizers, and one absurdly satisfying landscape. Here's what changed in Sonogram — generative audio art for your eyeballs.

  • Sonogram
  • Three.js
  • WebGL
  • music visualizer
  • audio visualization
  • generative art
  • changelog

We blinked, two weeks vanished, and somehow the codebase grew three new visualizers, a personality, and a tan. Here’s the field report.

Three new ways to look at sound

🪩 Landscape landed (and then learned to drive)It started life as a humble flat city of bokeh lights. Then it wanted depth. Then traffic. Then a Waze-style chase-cam following a music-reactive car around a tilted MapLibre night map, with shockwaves rippling out on the bass drops. We let it cook. The result is a drone-eye view of a city that breathes with your music. Try it on something with a low end you can feel in your chest.
💿 The Vinyl visualizer spins back inBecause some songs deserve to be watched on a turntable, even a virtual one. Grooves, glow, the whole vibe. Hi-fi nostalgia for an era that mostly existed in our heads.
✨ A new music-reactive Particle visualizerSpectrum reactivity, shockwaves, bloom, light trails. Basically: dump a track in, get a music video out. Save it as a 4K PNG — yes, that button works now (see below).

🧴 The whole site got a glow-up

A new palette, friendlier loading and empty states, a site-wide accessibility pass, and a refreshed About page that finally admits Landscape exists. Mobile fullscreen no longer bullies your iPhone. The Save 4K PNG button no longer dares you to double-click it.

🔍 We got serious about being found

robots.txt, a real sitemap, canonical URLs, structured data — the works. If you’ve been Googling “audio visualizer that doesn’t look like 2008,” we’d like to introduce ourselves.

🛡️ And the boring-but-important stuff

Rate limits where they should be. An audit sweep across uploads and steganography. A tighter CSP. A service worker that finally understands cross-origin. Faster admin pagination. Fewer orphaned audio files in the bin out back. The sort of changes nobody asks for and everyone benefits from.

Take it for a spin at sonogram.ars.md.

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