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Yo! I’m Jordan, a soon-to-be Alumnus of NYU’s bodacious Music Technology Master’s program, and going against everything I’ve ever said about blogs, I’ve decided to start my very own. But since I won't be writing about how I’m better than you because I know some indie band you don’t, I don’t think that makes me a hypocrite...

My Master’s thesis, “Advanced Audio Visualization and Synthesis with Flash 9 and ActionScript 3.0,” explains how to hack the new ActionScript 3.0 language into enabling realtime audio synthesis, processing, and visualization within any Flash 9 player. Since Flash is on more than 98% of all computers in the world, I think this is just the beginning of very significant wave of powerful audio applications on the web.

My purpose of starting this blog is to save my thesis from the lonely and dusty life of the NYU Bobst library and spread the knowledge I’ve gained in my 2 years getting my Master’s in Music Technology and the many months I’ve spent researching and working on my thesis.

I want to help others get started working their own audio projects in Flash 9 and contribute to developing the medium so it can one day become a legitimate way of making or manipulating music.

I also plan to continue experimenting and developing audio applications with Flash CS3 and will to use this site to showcase my own projects.

Lastly, people are going to (and already have) come up with some mindblowingly cool Flash CS3 audio applications and I‘m going to to post some good examples and perhaps try to figure out how they did what they did.

Questions, examples of crazy-cool Flash audio things, or funny curse words in obsolete languages can be sent here: grandmasterflashcs3@gmail.com