Observed arrival · 2026-09-28
asciirave: beat-synced music videos in characters
A browser-and-terminal project that turns music videos into live-rendered character animation synced to a track.
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◎Niche
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ƒJS
- For
- Terminal users and fans of experimental music visuals
- Worth noticing
- Scenes are described as signed Rust-to-WebAssembly modules, sandboxed without imports and given a hard 50 ms frame budget.
Field notes
Each film is represented as a JSON timeline, beat map and scene data rather than a video file. The page says the renderer sends only changed character cells to the terminal, while the browser version uses a canvas. Audio is sourced from official YouTube uploads or local files, and lyrics from LRCLIB or user-provided .lrc files; the project says it hosts neither.
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○OpenPublic substance visible
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✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
◉HumanPersonal, local, civic, or handmade
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