Art through code

Music, images and motion made by writing programs.

These sources make or analyze art through software. Some are tools, some are finished pieces, and some are models. They differ on how much the maker still decides.

Part of Emergence. 25 sources from 8 subjects. A source can carry several themes. These tags are this wiki's own reading, not claims the sources make.

AudioX: A Unified Framework for Anything-to-Audio Generation

Zeyue Tian, Zhaoyang Liu, Yizhu Jin and others, HKUST. From Audio models and analysis.

A project page for a model that makes audio and music from many inputs.

Eleven Music

Posted by meetpateltech, with replies from many commenters. From Audio models and analysis.

A Hacker News thread on ElevenLabs' launch of Eleven Music, an AI music generator.

How To Train a Generative Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop With 6GB of VRAM

Not stated (published on the personal site zhinit.dev, GitHub user zhinit). From Audio models and analysis.

A blog post on training a kick drum generator on a home GPU.

Synthesizing Music from JSON

Dominic Szablewski (PhobosLab). From Audio models and analysis.

A blog post introducing pl_synth, a tiny music synthesizer and tracker for C and JavaScript.

Toward a Sparse Interpretable Audio Codec

John Vinyard. From Audio models and analysis.

A proof-of-concept write-up of an audio codec that encodes sound as sparse events.

WildFX: A DAW-Powered Pipeline for In-the-Wild Audio FX Graph Modeling

Qihui Yang, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Julian McAuley and Zachary Novack, UC San Diego. From Audio models and analysis.

A preprint presenting a tool that renders multitrack effect-chain datasets using a real DAW.

What’s new in xenharmlib 0.4.0?

Fabian Vallon (named in the page's copyright line). From Consonance and tuning.

Release notes for version 0.4.0 of xenharmlib, a Python library for microtonal music.

xenharmlib documentation

xenharmlib project. From Consonance and tuning.

A Python library for scales and intervals in many tuning systems.

Agent Draw: An agent draws while you talk, built on TLDraw

James Daniel Whitford, software engineer and technical writer at Ritza (Tech Stackups). From Harnesses and agent loops.

A tutorial on building a tool that draws on a canvas from speech.

Vibe Coding

David Bau. From Harnesses and agent loops.

A personal blog post on handing a fractal webpage to a coding agent.

Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

Posted by rustywasm, with replies from many commenters. From History and places.

A Hacker News thread about a map that animates Los Angeles buildings by year built.

Alternate Clock Designs & Time Systems

Cyrille Médard de Chardon. From Images made by rules.

Working clock faces that divide the day in different ways.

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

Microsoft (project listed under the microsoft GitHub organization). From Images made by rules.

The page introduces Flint, a chart specification language built so AI agents can make charts.

Introducing LACE

Nova Spivack. From Images made by rules.

A cellular automata platform where the links between cells are part of the state.

Strange Attractors

Shashank Tomar. From Images made by rules.

An introduction to chaos through a particle visualization in the browser.

Visualizing 100,000 Years of Earth in WebGL

Bouke Stam, TechniStuff. From Images made by rules.

A build log for an interactive globe driven by scientific datasets.

nw_wrld//dpCube[4]

Daniel Aagentah (aagentah.bsky.social). From Images made by rules.

A short Bluesky post sharing a video piece made with the nw_wrld software.

Getting Started (Strudel documentation)

Not stated. From Music as code and DAW control.

The welcome page of the Strudel workshop, a browser tool for writing music as code.

Logic Pro MCP Server for Claude, Cursor, and AI Agents

MongLong0214 (GitHub account name; the README names no person). From Music as code and DAW control.

The README of an MIT-licensed server that lets AI agents control Logic Pro through MCP.

Radium Music Editor

Posted by ofalkaed, with replies from many commenters. From Music as code and DAW control.

A Hacker News thread where commenters discuss the Radium editor and trackers.

Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

Posted by stagas, with replies from many commenters. From Music as code and DAW control.

A Hacker News launch thread for Hallucinate, a browser world of dancing avatars.

Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics

Posted by humbledrone, with replies from many commenters. From Music as code and DAW control.

A Hacker News launch thread for Anukari, a paid synthesizer built on 3D physics.

All asteroids in Solar System, visualized

Posted by d_silin, with replies from many commenters. From Space and orbital simulation.

A comment thread about a Python demo that draws the orbits of all known asteroids.

The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation [video]

Posted by surprisetalk, with replies from a few commenters. From Space and orbital simulation.

A very short thread about a video on orbital simulation code.

Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates

Not stated. From Systems and hardware.

A write-up of two chip demos built for the Tiny Tapeout 8 competition.