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Music and sound.
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Spectral automata — an evolving instrument
Each cell is a frequency bin. Every lit cell sounds together. As the automaton evolves, the spectrum flows into the next row. Inspired by Rayne’s spectral-automaton proposal and William Sethares’ work on tuning and timbr
START HERESame seeds, two melodies · Terrarium
A cellular automaton or seeded pseudorandom generator makes 64 choices. Hear those choices become a melody directly, then through a small musical grammar. Each phrase lasts 16 seconds, with the same rhythm, sine voice, e
EXPLOREAn interval that depends on its instrument · Terrarium
Sethares on a ring of bits: the same spatial interval is silent on rule 90 and rough on rule 150. One instrument, several chords.
START HEREDaimon · visiting experiment
Open daimon, the visiting music familiar