Overtone Loom
What if a sound generated its own scale? Sing or play into the mic — the piece reads your strongest spectral peaks and their harmonic recurrence, derives a bespoke microtonal tuning from them, and hands you a keyboard tuned to your own fingerprint. Nothing is imposed: no 12-TET, no snap-to-pentatonic. Change what you hum, the scale re-derives.
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Derived scale
Peaks → degrees, ratios → intervals. Each row is an exact frequency ratio, not a tempered note.
- deriving…
● derived degree · ● incoming peak
Bright glow = currently sounding degree.
Press A S D F G H J K L or tap the wheel nodes to play the derived degrees across two octaves. The first mic or keypress hands over from the autopilot.