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Author here, glad people are exploring this. Some fun details (should be in the "about" section but that's easy to miss):

- It's open source, including the code that produced the audio: https://github.com/pac-dev/AmbientGarden

- All the generated music is in just intonation. This was mostly for convenience at first (JI is easy to produce with code), but it led me down a massive harmonic rabbit hole in which I'm still located.

I'm currently hacking away at the next iteration of this, where rhythm is fully embraced. I have to say the ambient genre was super convenient and allowed me to play fast and loose with synchronization, while really focusing on how harmony can be laid out in space. But rhythm was always in the books and I'm hoping it takes things to another level.

Any chance of getting a master volume control added? This is gorgeous but Firefox doesn't have a per-tab volume slider.

I remember this! It's beautiful, and a nice reminder that there are still lots of people on the internet creating wonderful things just for the joy of it.

This immediately reminded me of the teamLab Planets [1] experience in Tokyo, Japan.

Specifically "Flowers and People, Cannot Be Controlled but Live Together" [2] - the entire soundtrack for the experience was incredible, and this ambient garden took me right back. Thank you for sharing!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7nODEETR4s

[2] https://music.apple.com/jp/artist/hideaki-takahashi/30588056...

Well executed.

If you're into that sort of stuff there is also https://generative.fm by Alex Bainter.

You can even play both at the same time!

I drive both at the moment (Above the rain) through my Analog Heat with a good amount of saturation and play it softly. Bliss.

What's with the gigantic "water bell" thing? Anyway would be cool for the trees to go on to infinity

This is wonderful, thank you

Reminds me of Tres Lunas and Maestro, created by British musician Mike Oldfield (more famous for "Tubular Bells"), in 2002 and 2004, making them very ahead of their time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Lunas#Computer_game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(video_game)

Really cool. This might become my goto ambient background solution.

Beautiful. I really like how the static sky looks.

I read some of Dan Simmons' Hyperion while listening to this and I can't go back to reading the normal way. What a vibe!