It's hypnotic and wonderful, but as is so often the case with these kinds of things, it stops just short of perfection. I used to play around with fractal music generators, and they made the same mistake: using the chromatic scale. I'm no programmer, but it seems a function to sharp, flat, or exclude notes outside of a given mode would be trivial. And with this music box, the tones have been pre-selected. D minor would have been exactly as much work. It's the difference between a momentary diversion and something genuinely interesting.
Fortunately, this thing has a couple of settings in just intonation, but those feature the least interesting tones.
Yeah, there are a whole lot of versions on that page and some of them do things like include or exclude prime numbers, which seems programmatically like the same kind of thing as being modal, though I guess it takes less hand-coding.
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Fortunately, this thing has a couple of settings in just intonation, but those feature the least interesting tones.
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