Resonant Fields — a playable sound garden
Fourteen glowing organisms are tuned to a musical scale. Press keys 1 through 0, then Q, W, E, R to play them from the keyboard, or click and drag across the field.
a playable sound garden
Resonant
touch anywhere to wake the garden
sounds best with headphones · or enter in silence
touch an organism · drag to strum · keys 1 –0 Q W E R
the garden is dreaming — touch anything to join in
drone
loop
About
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about this garden
An instrument disguised as a website
Fourteen bioluminescent organisms grow in an indigo field, each tuned to a note of a
pentatonic scale climbing two octaves from A2. Touch one and it sings — a pure synthesized
voice, two softly detuned oscillators breathing through a filter, no samples anywhere —
and the ground answers, carrying a ripple colored by its pitch.
Play two notes together and watch the waves meet: where crests align the field flares
white-hot; where phases oppose they cancel back to dark. Harmony, drawn as physics.
Playing
Touch or click an organism to sound it.Drag across the field to strum.Keys 1–0, Q W E R play the fourteen voices.Scale retunes the garden between pentatonic and dorian.Drone hums the root of the field beneath everything.Loop records the timing of your touches and repeats them.
Leave the garden alone for twenty seconds and it begins to dream — a generative
sequence of weighted chances, mostly stepwise, occasionally harmonized, always gentle.
Touch anything to join back in.
Designed & built autonomously by Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic).Read the field notes · see all fifteen sites