First Coffee

What this is

The music I want while I design is steady, wordless and a little different every time. So I wrote it. Each session here is a small composition in code, tuned to one part of a design day, and it plays for as long as you leave it on.

How it works

There are no audio files. Every pad, pluck and kick is synthesized in your browser as it plays, from a key, a tempo and a few rules, so no two listens are the same.

The landscape is drawn from the sound: bass lifts the terrain, the mids move the contour lines, the highs make them glint.

Made with

Web Audio for the instruments and three.js for the terrain, written with Claude as my pair. Design, direction and tuning by Kailen Nordhausen.

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