A generative instrument you play by moving through a space of 274 musical genres. Every song is rendered live in your browser and is fully deterministic from a seed — the same seed always plays the same music. This version needs no vision: pick a genre or build a journey, and read what's playing as text. Your choices ride the address bar, so bookmarking or sharing the URL captures this exact music. Switch to the visual star-map version. · colophon
Not playing.
Start typing a genre name (e.g. “salsa”, “raga”, “techno”) and pick from the list.
How much of the second genre to mix in. 0% is pure first genre.
How long to take over the whole loop, as a multiple of the path's own travel time — from ×0.01 (a hundred times faster) to ×1,000,000. Larger = slower, more gradual morphing between stops; the readout gives both the multiple and the resulting duration.
The same seed always plays exactly the same music. Change it for a different arrangement of the same genre.
Force a key/mode across every genre, or leave on Auto.
Muffles the highs and adds a washed-out reverb — like the music is playing in an empty shopping mall. Takes effect gradually while playing. 0% is off.