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Two sides

11 November 2026 · Day 11 · Built with Claude

One day of my music factory, opened like a book. On the left, what went in. On the right, what came out. Pull a sketch down onto the floor to keep it for tomorrow.

What's going on here

My factory grows variations of short phrases I've played, so there's a folder of sketches to listen to in the morning. Keeping one has meant moving a file into another folder. This is a sketch of a different way to do that, in the same kind of room as Stave Room: one day's page, opened like a book. The left side is what went in, 5 phrases I played and the 16 sketches I'd already kept. The right side is the 20 sketches that came out of them.

Off the page

Each row is one family, a phrase and everything grown from it. A thread runs from each new sketch back to what it grew from. The less a sketch is like its parent, the further off the page it stands, so the ones that wandered are the ones nearest you.

Keeping

Pull a sketch down onto the floor and it's kept for tomorrow. How near you put it says how much you liked it, from one star to five. For now that only changes the list on this page. Nothing here reaches the factory.

The material is real: the second crop, grown on 6 November from five piano phrases. Each clip is cut two seconds after its last sound.

What came out

The same sketches as a list. Choosing stars here keeps a sketch, the same as pulling it onto the floor.

What went in