Mozart Dice Game

Okay. This one is weird. I know. A music composition tool on a game site. But let me explain. I was reading about procedural generation. That's when a computer creates stuff from rules instead of someone making it by hand. And I found out composers were doing this in the 1700s. No computer. Just dice and tables of music written by hand. You roll the dice, pick a measure from the table, and the piece builds itself. Every combination works. Every single one. Because they designed it that way. These people were something else.

I used their actual tables. Not guesses. Not approximations. The real measures these composers wrote. I wrapped them in an interface where you click through a 3D carousel of options for each bar. You can hear each one before you pick it. Swap them around. Try different combinations. The number of possible waltzes alone? Over forty-five quadrillion. I did the math twice because I didn't believe it the first time. You could use this every day until the sun burns out and never hear the same piece twice. That fact still gets me.

There are a bunch of different forms to choose from. Waltz. Menuet. Polonaise. Trio. Contredanse. Aria. The waltz and contredanse are Mozart's. The rest are by other composers from the same era. Kirnberger. Stadler. Calegari. They all had the same wild idea. Each form sounds different. Different tempo. Different feel. You could say this project really struck a chord with me. I'll see myself out. Anyway. When you're done, you pick an instrument: piano, harpsichord, strings, or organ. The harpsichord is my favorite. Makes everything sound like a candlelit concert in Vienna. I'm biased. I don't care.

The PDF export took me a week. One feature. One week. But now you can download your piece as real sheet music. Proper notation. A musician could sit down and play it. I printed one out and left it on the kitchen counter. My wife asked when I started composing classical music. I told her Mozart helped. She did not think that was as funny as I did.