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What does a scale feel like? Our new Sound Of Scales Lab is an ambient listening environment where melodies wander through different scales and modes above a continuous C drone. Explore pitch collections from different musical traditions, experiment with melodic movement, mute individual notes, and listen to how intervals create different colours and atmospheres. Just press Play and listen!

We've just released a new web-based version of BeatMatrix! Originally developed as an iOS app, BeatMatrix lets you create complex rhythmic patterns with custom accents, subdivisions, repeats and tempo changes. Perfect for practising Konnokol, odd time signatures, polyrhythms and all kinds of rhythmic adventures. It's free, runs directly in your browser, and there's nothing to install!

How much fun does this sound! Melodic Dictation can get more difficult as the melody gets longer, or depending on the intervals in the melody. I created this resourse so students can carefully build these skills one step at a time.

I have been reworking some of my old code from my digital humanities music project (many years ago, before you could do fast things with web dev!). The aim is an aid to help explore historical context of classical composers. I know, how exciting! Will try and find time to refactor more of it and release it.

Such a great way to approach rhythm.

I have wanted to code this up for ages and finally got around to it. A way to track my listening and explore new music.

Exploring ways to simplify analysis of scores. There must be a simlper way! Here is my updated template for orchestration analysis. Will post a video on this.

After a crazy few months, we have finally finished moving. To Fennell Bay on Lake Macquarie. It is lovely here! A room filled with boxes is set to become the new studio! Excited to say it should be set up for teaching in Term 4.

My book of Keith Jarrett Transcriptions. Great for practice and music analysis!

Some new interactive resources for students starting out, to learn the different keys on the piano, and the different notes on the clefs.

For the coding musicians out there, it's probably inevitable that you'll eventually want to port your audio applications to mobile devices. It can get surprisingly tricky! If you're finding yourself getting frustrated, check out our guide to programming audio for mobile browsers.

Open sourcing BeatMatrix and SAJA Music

Transcription from Imaginary Day Album. Full of energy and joy, and so much fun to play.

Always thought this piece was written by John Abercrombie. So his vibe, but turns out he was only playing on it. But the harmony here. So beautiful.