The mouse position in x controls the frequency of a sine wave [from 220Hz to 440Hz or A3 to A4], while the y position controls volume. There’s some tearing that occurs when modulating volume, I haven’t figured that out how to fix that yet. As you move your mouse the wave that is generated is plotted on the stage. The pink dots represent sampled data points [which correspond to speaker movement] while the purple lines are approximations of the in-betweens [just lines drawn from point to point]. After playing with that for a while I wrote a class that matches note names to frequencies and drew markers indicating where on the x-axis of the stage one would have to place the cursor to generate a given note between A3 and A4. This is just a small example of the possibilities of sound in flash, and one way to interact with it. I’m looking forward to building on the classes I made for this example. I’ve included my entire TextMate project and source below [which will be the foundation of many more experiments], you can chop it up and use it however you want, although I didn’t copy any license to it, but trust me I won’t sue.

src -> Theremin Project/Visualizing Wave Data