A QUICK WORD FROM JEFFERSON: If this page looks like your browser is broken, don't worry. It's called an RSS feed, and it's a tool that lets you take back control from the algorithms trying to control what you read. For a full explanation, check out the "About Following Me" article on my About page. Or you can cut and paste this URL here: https://creativityhacker.ca/nav/about/artifacts/2025-03-26_191111/ (Sorry, URL links aren't clickable inside RSS feeds.) https://creativityhacker.ca/tags/dormant/ Recent content in Dormant on Creativity Hacker Hugo en-us jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) Tue, 27 May 2025 10:57:34 +0000 https://creativityhacker.ca/projects/droct/ -projects Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:02:05 +0000jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) https://creativityhacker.ca/projects/droct/ <p>Possible Title: Dr Octave&rsquo;s Musical Monstrosity Lab</p> <p>Based on my doctoral research, DrOctave is a game in which musical constructs are grown from seed and cross pollinated to produce complex original music.</p> <p>Basically, players compose original music without any knowledge of music theory, by taking little bits they like and growing them into bigger bits they like, guided by nothing more than their own aesthetic sense of what sounds good. The secret sauce is in how I prepackage music theory and structure into &ldquo;seeds,&rdquo; &ldquo;cuttings&rdquo; and &ldquo;sprouts&rdquo;: elements that are natural to the metaphor.</p>