how the instruments came about
Next to pictures and music, the old site had one more idea that never got finished: things you can play with yourself. That part is new.
It started with two synthesizers: Rauschuhr, twelve noise voices arranged like the hours on a clock, and Konsonanzgitter, sixteen FM voices in a grid with one switch that keeps every note consonant with every other. Then three ideas from my notebook became tools of their own: Sternenfeld, a night sky from a seed word; Irrgarten, a labyrinth you can watch being dug; and Taktwerk, a drum machine whose rhythms come from rules instead of hands.
They all run in your browser. No samples, no plugins, and nothing is sent to this server.