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An Instrument

The Sequencer

The orchestra is assembled and waiting. It has been waiting for a very long time.

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Every composition is contained in its own address. Press Publish and send the link; it will arrive exactly as you left it.

A Note on the Instrument

No recordings were used in the making of this instrument. Every voice is synthesised in your browser from first principles — a buzzing source, a turbulent one, a resonant cavity that narrows as the pressure falls, and an irregular flutter that keeps the whole thing from sounding like a bassoon.

This is not a technical boast. It is why the eight voices can be tuned toward the dry and the woody rather than the merely loud, and why no two strikes of the same voice are identical: each one re-rolls its pitch, its length, and its flutter within a range. The instrument is incapable of repeating itself exactly, which is true of the original.