Isle of Tune: A music sequencer using roads

It's interesting... On Safari if you put it into a background tab you can hear the music slow down as the thread gets less processing time.

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The funny thing is, as a musician, I came at this the wrong way, with an idea in my head that I tried to express using the pieces. I ended up frustrated at the sequencing limitations.

Then I just tried playing around, making a little neighborhood while the cars cruised about, ringing the scenery. Since the notes follow a pre-defined scale, you can't really "mess up" the sound. Now I don't want to quit!

My first thought was "lame." Then i clicked the demo island. Five mins later is was jamming with it.

Well done.

I'd love to see this on a game console. I imagine it would be fun having 2 or more people with Wii controllers improvising together on the same island.

The look of Isle of Tune reminds me of the artwork for the last David Byrne/Brian Eno album. Coincidence?

This is awesome but would be ten times cooler if it was (semi) turing complete: traffic lights which can change the direction of flow and portals to jump cars to another spot.

At first I thought you misspelled rhodes but then I realized this is the coolest thing I've ever seen.

Mod Tracker + SimCity, even I of no musical talent was able to make something amusing with it. Neat.

This is great, I've been working on a related idea. Its really cool to see this.