Migun. Microphone stroboscope
A screen full of dots that listens to the room. Talk, clap or put music on, and the grid rearranges itself on every jump in volume.
Migun fills the whole window with circles — twenty-five points across, spaced by three percent of the screen — and then hands the controls to the microphone. Nothing is drawn in advance. The grid only moves when the loudness changes by more than a set amount, so a steady room leaves it perfectly still and a clap rewrites it at once.
The page is called Страбоскоп in the title bar, which is closer to the truth than any of the names it has been given since. It is a strobe: sound in, one frame out.
Nothing happens until the room makes a noise. Then everything happens at once.
Two modes, one tap apart
Tapping the grid switches between them. In the first, every jump in volume reshuffles the whole field and lights half the circles at random — the screen boils, and the texture is the point.
In the second, the field goes dark except for a filled circle: a centre point, and a radius that grows with the loudness. Go quiet and the centre jumps somewhere else, so speaking in bursts walks the circle around the screen. Same data, same grid, entirely different thing to look at.
Random 50% of the circles light up on every volume transient. Instant physical noise texture that boils to claps, drums, and speech.
Sound loudness expands a solid circle of dots outwards from an acoustic center. When silence falls, the center jumps to a new random location.
Where it belongs
It is a sibling of Golosun — same idea of letting a microphone drive a picture, four years earlier and with far less to it. Golosun keeps what you said; Migun forgets it immediately. That is most of the difference between an instrument and a toy.
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