Timeline difficulties derailed the original plan of doing this project in Touch Designer. Instead the entire program was created with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript. Starting with the audio, I re-used code I had written from a previous project to dynamically generate audio buffers needed to create musical notes. For simplicity, I’m generating a single square wave but also included parameters to adjust the velocity and decay of notes for more dynamic breadth of sound. After I could generate audio buffers I needed a system to schedule when the notes would play, so I decided on a standard tempo of 120 BPM and created a variable for the last measure scheduled, and an animation loop that incremented variables for current measure, current beat, etc. The animation loop would then check to see what the next measure was and if it had not been scheduled would schedule a randomly generated pattern of notes for the next measure. These notes were selected at random from an array representing all the notes in the current key. Once I was able to schedule and generate a single melody, I added two more schedulers for melodies—one an octave higher, and one an octave lower with fewer more sustained notes. Lastly I created audio buffer generators that used random noise to make percussion sounds and created some predefined drum patterns to be used by the scheduler, which are selected at random each time a new measure is scheduled. The result is a somewhat haphazard but interesting 8-bit texture.