Symphonic Arc

Symphonic Arc 24 phrases × 8 bars · letters A–X

bar — · ♩=72 · ≈ 0:00

Twenty variables of an orchestral movement, each drawn against 192 bars. Here the clock is free: tempo, metre and silence have lanes of their own. The sketch synth reads every lane and plays a rough orchestra so the form can be heard before a note is written; the panels below turn the drawing into a form plan, a cue sheet and a JSON you can build on.

Drag to draw. Discrete lanes snap to their states. Each column is one 8-bar phrase, lettered like rehearsal marks. The tension lane at the bottom is computed from the others: the line a composer would draw first.

Form plan

One line per phrase, in the language of a score: tempo and its motion, metre, dynamic, orchestration, texture, harmony, what the line does. This is the road map to compose from.

Cue sheet for a generator

Short bracketed cues per phrase, built from the changes between phrases.

JSON

Every lane per phrase, plus the derived key and chord plan, for scripts that write notation.