A place, not a playlist.
mur mur is a speaker that plays ambient sounds from the tiny world it holds inside it.
It doesn't play pre-recorded loops or stream tracks. Inside each Murmur is a place with a life of its own, and what you hear is the sound it makes.
Always playing.
A duck dives into the water. Loud music from a car below. Wind weaving through the trees.
None of these sounds are pre-recorded, but generated in real time from the living soundscape.
If you like the bustling sounds of a city, barking dogs and traffic fights, the block is the right choice
If you are into leaves, birds and you always wanted to live in the forest, the plot is what you need
If you like water splashes, ducks and some occasional boats, the pond is for you.
If you like the bustling sounds of a city, barking dogs and traffic fights, the block is the right choice. If you are into leaves, birds and you always wanted to live in the forest, the plot is what you need. If you like water splashes, ducks and some occasional boats, the pond is for you.
Almost real.
This is not just an idea, we actually built the product and wrote the generative audio engine for all the tiny worlds within it.
We would love to bring it to your desks, homes or music studios. If you are interested in making it real with us or know when it will be available.
Try it today
We’ve also created a custom patch in Max for Live, that lets you run mur mur worlds directly into Ableton Live.
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Why we did this?
Simulations and worlds are mostly built for games, and agents are used to make our lives more efficient... but they don't have to be.
Murmur imagines what else we might do with AI agents and simulations besides tokenmaxxing: using generative technologies not to automate music, but to make something we couldn't otherwise listen to.
A real enough product by
Mattering is a design practice for art and advanced technologies. We work with change across culture and technology, translating emerging conditions into new creative languages.
We help companies and institutions venture into new design territories, through years of experience in bringing future products to life, and fearlessly pioneering technologies that don't yet exist.
