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🎶 Music Cultures: Tuning Systems, Timbre and Euclidean Rhythm (2D)

Interactive 2D model of how musical cultures differ in physics: pluck or strum strings whose lengths follow the chosen tuning (12-TET, just, Pythagorean, slendro, pelog, maqam Rast, Chinese pentatonic, Thai heptatonic), hear instrument timbres from stiff strings, metal bars or pipes, read the Plomp-Levelt sensory-dissonance curve, and edit Euclidean rhythms on a clickable ring.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
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Interactive 2D model of how musical cultures differ in physics: pluck or strum strings whose lengths follow the chosen tuning (12-TET, just, Pythagorean, slendro, pelog, maqam Rast, Chinese pentatonic, Thai heptatonic), hear instrument timbres from stiff strings, metal bars or pipes, read the Plomp-Levelt sensory-dissonance curve, and edit Euclidean rhythms on a clickable ring.

musictuning systemsharmonicssensory dissonanceeuclidean rhythmgamelanmaqam

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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