Today I needed to take a break from proposal writing, and various other academic chores. So I decided to make something just for the fun of it.
Oftentimes I want to play a melody that’s running around in my head, but I don’t have a musical keyboard handy, especially when traveling. So today I wrote a little Javascript program that lets me use my computer keyboard to type melodies.
There is nothing particularly novel about it. It’s really more of a craft project, a labor of love.
But it’s free and it runs on the Web. So if you’ve got melodies running around in your head that you need to get out, you might find it useful.
You can play with it here.
Have you had a chance to play with Strudel?
strudel.tidalcycles.org/
Oh wow. I wrote stuff like this many years ago. There was a whole movement many years ago of people writing these kinds of procedural composition systems. This is great, and kind of nostalgic.
Also, I love that I am running strudel on my Apple computer. Apple strudel!!!