catalog

1. 01

   Earth· live data

   Every data feed at once: weather tunes the mode, ISS picks the root chord, earthquakes punctuate with low gongs, geomagnetic activity adds the shimmer. The whole snapshot of the moment becoming sound.

   ambient · data · composite
2. 02

   Atmosphere· live data

   Listens to the current NOAA observation for NYC and tunes itself to it. Temperature picks the mode, wind picks the density, humidity wets the reverb, cloud cover lowers the brightness. Same snapshot for every listener in the hour.

   ambient · weather · noaa
3. 03

   Tremor· live data

   Hits a low gong for each of today's top earthquakes. Magnitude picks the pitch (bigger = lower), depth shapes the dark, total daily count controls how often gongs land. Today's seismic activity, sounding.

   ambient · usgs · data
4. 04

   Orbit· live data

   Tunes itself to where the ISS is right now. Latitude becomes pitch (south = low, north = high), longitude picks the chord intervals. As the station moves, the music slowly changes with it (next listener tunes in next hour to a new chord).

   ambient · iss · data
5. 05

   Aurora· live data

   Listens to today's geomagnetic activity. Quiet K-index = calm 5-tone shimmer. Storm K-index (5+) = the chord starts pulling itself apart. Solar wind speed sets the LFO rate. Real space weather, sounding.

   ambient · space-weather · data
6. 06

   Cathedral

   A single chord fed into a two-second delay with 80% feedback. Plays one chord per minute. Made for empty rooms — turn it on, walk away, come back later, the chord's still hanging.

   ambient · drone · reverb
7. 07

   Field Notes

   Five voices breathing at different rates. A bass drone with slow filter sweep, a chord pad walking I-VI-VII-V in A minor with 25% chance of substitution, occasional bell pings (30% per tick), a probabilistic melodic line (50%), gusts of pitched noise. LFOs running underneath everything. Each tick rolls fresh dice.

   ambient · stochastic · walking
8. 08

   Plinko

   Three percussive layers running on Euclidean rhythms — kick at 5-of-8, hat at 11-of-16, pitched perc at 7-of-13 (against a 4-feel) — beating polyrhythmically against each other. Densities re-roll every 8 beats. Pad and sub underneath.

   rhythm · euclidean · polyrhythm
9. 09

   Reading Room

   Five-voice chord with detuned partners and a saw shadow, continuous sub, pitched air noise, slow tremolo. Brian Eno reading by lamplight, but the lamp is warmer.

   ambient · chord · eno
10. 10

    Late Bus

    Sine + saw chord pad, sub kick on every beat, brushy hat on 16ths, snare on the off-beats, a soft arpeggio above, sub-bass underneath. Lo-fi study tape on the back of the bus, fuller than before.

    lo-fi · study · beats
11. 11

    Glass Weather

    Five-partial sine bank with light FM, detuned saw shadow, smoothed amp + cutoff. Functional DSP — the algorithm is the patch.

    ambient · drone · elementary
12. 12

    Lattice

    A cluster of FM bells at closely-spaced frequencies — they beat against each other, drifting in and out of consonance. Short envelopes, fast trigger, long delay. Less Eno, more chime cabinet.

    fm · cluster · glassy
13. 13

    Static

    Three layers of filtered noise — low rumble, midrange hiss, high crackle — each on its own LFO. Occasional probability-gated thumps. No notes, no chords. Texture as composition.

    noise · texture · experimental
14. 14

    Still Water

    Slow notes drifting in D Phrygian. Sine-based poly pad through a long reverb.

    ambient · drone
15. 15

    Morning Bells

    Sparse FM bell plucks over A major pentatonic. Delays and a wash of reverb.

    bells · arpeggiated · bright