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A small field of possibilities

Growing the first voice.

Preparing the instrument…

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THE LIVING INSTRUMENTGEN. 00

Copperwing

A new voice is waiting.

Touch a rib. Listen to its shape.
THE CHOIR

Four instruments. One small song.

silent · press play
Tap squares to write a rhythm. Select a name to shape its body.
FIELD GUIDE / WILD CHOIR

Listen. Change. Listen again.

  1. Meet a voice. Each creature plays one instrument. Its ribs are keys: the left wing climbs the scale from tail to head, the right wing sounds a third above, the spine is the low home note. Drag across a wing for a run. Space plays home; A S D F G H J K climb the scale.
  2. Change its anatomy. Stiffer ribs raise its home note, more mass or a wider span lowers it, damping shortens the ring. Brightness, vibrato and richness follow stiffness, asymmetry and rib count.
  3. Grow descendants. Evolve varies the melody: it nudges notes, echoes a bar, reverses a figure. Hear each one play, then keep a favourite. Undo takes you back.
  4. Make a choir. Each row is a different specimen. The rhythm decides when it sings; its melody decides what. The choir's key keeps every voice in tune with the others. The small circle turns a voice on or off. Tap any of its 16 steps, set a tempo, and press Play. Select the specimen name to edit its body.
  5. Carry it with you. Save loop downloads the enabled voices as a WAV. Export collection saves every genome, rhythm, and setting as a JSON file.

Start with one voice and four beats. Pentatonic keys never clash, so they are a gentle place to begin.

Win over the wild singers.

The evening garden has its own residents. Each sings a short call in its own key on its own instrument. Walk close and it listens to your choir. Notes that belong to its key fill its harmony ring; notes outside it scare it back. Change the choir key right in the garden, or rest the voices that clash. Rare singers also listen for a particular instrument family, and the night-only singer answers only its exact key. When the ring is full, the singer is befriended and joins your field journal. In the studio, 02 Evolve can crossbreed with it, and that is how new instruments reach your choir.

The runic monoliths.

Four giant stones stand beyond the trees and keep the beat. Deep plays the bass, walking a four-bar progression in your key. Earth is the kick, Stone the clap, Ember the shaker. They rise out of the hillside when the garden wakes, and every hit lights their runes from the ground up. They follow where you face, and when you walk they play lighter under a single voice. Stones on silences them.

Take the choir outside.

Concert garden places your four specimens among flowers. Their saved rhythms play from their moving positions. Walk with WASD or the arrow pad. Drag to look, or turn with Q/E. Headphones make direction and distance easier to hear. Tap a name, or press 1–9, to sing that voice yourself; ◎ turns you toward it, – rests it and × takes it out of the garden. + Add brings in any creature from your collection (up to 24). With more than four, the choir takes turns: one voice per part, a new one every four bars.

Flight mixes steering, wingbeats, and flower visits. It is a butterfly-inspired animation, not a biological simulation. Reduce ambient motion in Settings to hold the creatures still while you walk. Leaving the tab pauses the concert; Resume starts it again. WAV export remains the studio mix.

What is actually happening?

A seeded genome builds a small suspended mass-and-spring graph, and carries one instrument and a sixteen-note melody written in scale degrees. The body's physics set the voice: √(stiffness ÷ mass) sets how high it sits, damping how long notes ring, rib count how rich the tone is. Each note is synthesized from tuned harmonic partials, so it reads as a pitch. The graph's natural vibration modes still drive how the drawing shivers when a rib sounds. This is a playful instrument, not a biological organism or a neural model.

Everything runs in this browser. There is no shared tracking service or cloud generation. Closing the menu or changing orientation keeps your collection. Leaving the tab stops playback.
FIELD JOURNAL / WILD SINGERS

Voices from the garden.
YOUR COLLECTION / PARKED CREATURES

Everyone you keep.

On the workbench

Parked
THE GARDEN GATE

Who else should fly here?
MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

A comfortable listening room.

Keeps purposeful pluck feedback. Stops the drifting and breathing.

Headphones at a comfortable volume are a good place to start. Mute is always available in the studio. Sound and animation pause when you leave the tab.
A NEW BEGINNING

Replace this specimen?

The selected slot gets a new body. Its rhythm stays. You can undo this change.