A little fun to share with anyone who likes music and text

April 1, 2021 12:51 PM

Type Your Jazz Here.... edit until you're happy with it, and send it to someone who might like it.
posted by storybored (19 comments total)

IPhone only, no android support :(
posted by esoteric things at 12:55 PM on April 1, 2021

It doesn't seem to correlate to what you type? I fiddled for a bit and eventually just entered in a line of a's, and they all produced different notes and chords.
posted by Zargon X at 1:20 PM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]

Neat!
posted by dobbs at 1:24 PM on April 1, 2021 [2 favorites]

It works in a desktop browser. Fun!
posted by PhineasGage at 1:47 PM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]

p.s. try deleting what you wrote (at varying speeds)
posted by storybored at 1:49 PM on April 1, 2021

This is just to say... very cool!
posted by me3dia at 1:51 PM on April 1, 2021 [3 favorites]

I wish in the City of your Heart.
posted by storybored at 2:14 PM on April 1, 2021 [3 favorites]

Doesn’t seem to work on my iPhone. Anyone else having problems? Suggestions?
posted by sjswitzer at 2:38 PM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]

Make a jazz noise here.
posted by SansPoint at 2:49 PM on April 1, 2021 [3 favorites]

this is the best thing ever
posted by elkevelvet at 2:59 PM on April 1, 2021

Very fun! I found you can go pretty long with the text too
posted by Carillon at 3:32 PM on April 1, 2021 [2 favorites]

This has a certain nostalgic feel to it that i like very much. It inspired me to write a very heartfelt note to my wife. But per Zargon, only the timing of the notes seems to be related to what you type. This would really be cool if a natural language processor made music dynamically to match detected emotions or topics. Or even just reacted to the cadence of your typing.

Even so, I imagine most of the texts / short messages I'll be sending for a while will be in this format. I do love it!
posted by dbx at 4:20 PM on April 1, 2021

Harbor and city….
posted by ob1quixote at 5:12 PM on April 1, 2021

I didn't realize it was going to save all the times I backspaced- Here is my 1st test one I watched it, and realized that I don't think I've ever had anything make me come to peace with my own self-editing like this. It actually made it a lot better.

Thanks for sharing, this was eye opening for me
posted by weewooweewoo at 8:33 PM on April 1, 2021 [2 favorites]

This has potential.
posted by Pouteria at 11:35 PM on April 1, 2021

Unless you're on Android because reasons.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 12:11 AM on April 2, 2021

Doesn’t seem to work on my iPhone.

D’oh! I had ringer muted! I keep forgetting that some apps—by no means all—check that.
posted by sjswitzer at 7:04 AM on April 2, 2021

If you enjoy this you might get a kick out of H. Jon Benjamin‘s Well, I Should Have... (Learned How To Play Piano).
posted by sjswitzer at 7:17 AM on April 2, 2021

This is absolutely brilliant. Next time I assign a creative writing activity, I'm sharing this with my students.
posted by Annabelle74 at 8:15 AM on April 2, 2021