Small experiments

Built with Claude

A way for people to build one-page things about music, sound and interaction, share them without any commercial pressure, and let others find them.

This is Experiment 2 in a daily series by Stephen Wolff. Experiment 1, Take the helm, is a ship's wheel that steers how energetic a piece of music feels. This one is a manifesto and a small form for describing your own experiment.

The manifesto

One idea, one page. If it takes a paragraph to explain, split it.
Rough is welcome. Ship it today, tweak it tomorrow.
Nothing to sign up for. No accounts, tracking or adverts. Open it and play.
Say what it does in plain English. A sentence or two. If you don't know what to call it yet, someone else can help.
Credit your collaborators and your ancestors. The people and the earlier pieces behind it.
Show your workings. Leave the source readable, and a few tests on the parts that matter.
Hand it to one person first. Then let everyone else find it in their own time.
Keep the old versions up. Experiments grow from each other.

Describe your experiment

Fill this in and copy the result. Save it as experiment.json next to your page. Nothing leaves your browser.

The file is a small, readable description. People can read it, and so can search tools and AI agents. The next field points to another experiment's file, so each one leads to another, like a webring.

Your experiment.json

What the form checks

Title, summary and your question are filled in, and there is at least one maker.
The page address is a full http or https address.
The summary is marked as written by a human or by an AI.
Every address under "Where next?" is a valid web address.

These rules were written as tests first, and the page uses the same code the tests run against.