music made by rules,
and where the rules came from.

People have always tried to build something that makes music on its own. Every attempt tells you what they believed about machines, and about themselves. I find those attempts, rebuild them, make my own, and listen to what comes out.

No AI chooses a note. Every sound here comes from a rule, a roll or a line of code.

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the vowel rule

Any sentence, sung by a rule from about 1026. Type it and hear it, then let the dice in, then overrule them yourself.

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notes of guido's own example, played back by his rule

dice waltz

A waltz game from 1792, played by dice around the clock on YouTube. Every sound is synthesised in code, and viewers change it from the chat.

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possible waltzes, from one table of 176 bars

earlier work → bandcamp