Nice touch that deleting letters descends chromatically. Letters typed appear unrelated to notes generated, you can type the same letter and it will keep generating different notes.
Also, it seems it will never resolve to the root, no matter what you type :(
This is mostly just using the keyboard to manipulate the rhythm/time performance of a pre-configured score. Interesting, but not what most would think of as jazz improvisation.
Not exactly. It is far more random than that. As far as I can tell, it plays random notes from a pre-loaded scale - occasionally chords, and punctuation marks play chords. Backspace plays a descending scale.
The aesthetics of it, including typography and sounds are very nice.
It appears nobody noticed the "share" feature, which records your typing sequence and replays it. I think it's amazing to use this feature to write letters. Try reading this poem to see what I mean.
I improvised this as I was typing. The "Peace Piece" song was the inspiration for what I wrote. It's a really fun way of creative writing. The text isn't very good, but it feels like writing is like a performance.
This is really well done. I find the default "free form" mode is by far the most interesting, and it's more complex than a lot of the comments are implying here. It cycles between different patterns, and the pattern is changed by inserting a space or punctuation. You can easily verify this by typing an extremely long word without spaces: the pattern becomes apparent, even though it's always transposed up or down by 5 semitones when it repeats. This interval is well chosen - it effectively explores all possible transpositions of the pattern, while keeping the transitions harmonious. This also means that the tonality is constantly wandering, there is no overall key but only transient tonalities.
Different punctuation marks provide different collections of more-or-less conclusive chords. This might be the only place where tonality is hinted at, especially if you bash the comma, you can hear it's rooted in one key for the whole session. As far as I can tell those special characters are / ! ? 1 . ,
I haven't figured out if the patterns are generated on-the-fly or chosen from a predefined set, but they tend to have a nice melodic quality.
Someone also mentioned special words rain and wind, but there are more... very fun to explore. The concept is nice but the execution is especially interesting.
Sounds nice, I like the minimalist look. But I think it would be a giant leap if the music was somehow related to what is being typed. Also it took a while to load, it could use a loading progress indicator — I thought it was broken and was opening it in different browsers thinking Safari wasn't supported.
I don't know anything about jazz or how to create any kind of music, but it's so relaxing to type while listening to these notes. I would love this as an application integrated with the OS, so I can listen it with every keystroke.
Interesting concept. Audio's crackly at times on my Linux Firefox. Though I keep waiting for something like this to show up that's more grounded in music theory…
Aww, I can't type outside ASCII range? Drat, I wanted to see whether different languages (even in Latin script) were distinguishable by sound this way.
Genius!! From what I can tell it seems to be random keys? Would be nice if a certain progression can be specified, but this is already awesome. Saving this as my new note taking tool.
I have a feature request BESIDES make it less random! When you delete all text with select all and then backspace/del it should make a huge loud combination of noises!
This is great. Would love to be able to enable this on my keyboard for typing everything as a bit of an upgrade over my super clicky mechanical keyboard.
This might be intentional on your part, but it seems to mark enharmonic equivalents as incorrect (a 5th from Gb is Db, which is the same as C# but C# is marked as incorrect).
