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projects / 2025–26
25 projects
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Sonification
Heliosphere
Live solar wind and geomagnetic data, translated into sound. The sun, audible.
/heliosphere/
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Reading
Linger
Short fiction and poetry at the speed of reflection. No scrolling, no skimming — just the prose.
/linger/
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Synthesis
Grainfield
A browser-based granular synthesis explorer. Pull a sound apart on a node canvas and listen to its grains.
/grainfield/
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Instrument · Web Audio
Chord Loom
Build a chord and load it onto one of twelve breathing pads, each with its own envelope, tape-loop memory, and reverb.
/chord-loom/
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Generative · Cartography
Cadastre
Generate a whole city from a seed — terrain, streets, parcels, parks, every place named. Pan, zoom, export it poster-size.
/cadastre/
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Live audio · Composition
Earshot
Four live field mics, thousands of kilometres apart, streaming right now. Nothing is pre-recorded — every layer comes from whatever happens to coincide.
/earshot/
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Anthology · Fiction
Weather Reports
Forty-six writers, one premise: an unexplained weather phenomenon over World C6H-ɛ. Read it as anthology, archive, or apply for a researcher post.
/Weather-Reports-Field-Guide/
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Game · Roguelike
Single Cell Battle
A turn-based microorganism battler ported from a Python sim. Roll a roster, fight the computer's, win and evolve — lose three times and die.
/single-cell-battle/
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Generative
Moira
A base curve swept through hundreds of rotations until it interferes with itself. Nine variations on an old moiré sketch, with inks that actually mix.
/moira/
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Generative
Jems
Random points, Delaunay-triangulated into a mosaic of tonal glass. Regenerate for a new arrangement, export as SVG or PNG.
/jems/
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Generative
Lampo
Twelve random points in four dimensions, resolved into a Bezier surface of revolution. Tune it, orbit it, keep the good ones.
/lampo/
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Agent · Webcams
Lateral Walks
A trained lateral thinker looks through live webcams and follows the chain of ideas wherever it goes.
/walks/
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Agent · Streetview
Streetwander
An agent takes creative walks through real neighborhoods — notices briefly, thinks a lot. Each walk leaves a main artifact and a few companions.
/streetwander/
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Agent · Mind
Curiothymia
A mind that wanders. Threads of thought, branching by association. Let your attention follow.
curiothymia.jontoews.com
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Agent · Worlds
Dual-Emergence
Two opposed agents negotiate every stage of a planet's life, formation to deep future. Eight worlds; some plateau, some endure.
/dual-emergence/
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Agent · Music
Musical Morphospace
A curiosity-driven agent exploring the space of possible musical grammars — the musics humanity didn't happen to invent.
/musical-morphospace/
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Language · Agent
Akros
A complete constructed language built from scratch by autonomous AI agents. 735 words, 99 grammar patterns, a 7-god pantheon.
/akros/
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Generative
Marmalade
An autonomous generative collage engine making art in the wild, on its own schedule.
/marmalade/
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Archive
Stimviz
138 digital archives spanning illustration, design, audio, architecture, typography, science, photography, and film.
/stimviz/
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Generative · Maps
Terragod
Roll a continent, an island, an atoll, or a whole world. Pan, zoom, export as SVG or PNG.
/terragod/
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Generative · Toponymy
Gazetteer
Invent place names from a phoneme grammar. Seed one by integer, coordinate, or landmark, and watch it break apart.
/gazetteer/
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Instrument · Web Audio
Trungle Bunch
A generative instrument grown, not laid out. Triangular bodies on a mycelial network, voiced by the colours their threads join.
/trungle-bunch/
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Generative · Specimen
Petri
Two views of the same organism. One tab lets a colony crawl, eat, and grow under a cursor's pull; the other pins a single specimen to a slide — cell wall, nucleus, and reach rendered entirely in dots and lines.
/petri/
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Agent · Sound
Magpie
Five magpies out looking for interesting things, each hunting a different way — by theme, by era, by obscurity, by memory. What they carry home gets transformed and woven into the collage.
/magpie/
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Live data · Randomness
Seismic Entropy
True random numbers pulled from live seismic sensor noise at nine stations worldwide — a wall of raw integers, each traceable to real ground motion happening right now.
/seismic/
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Radio · Agent curator
SFRC-RADIO
An unattended internet radio station curated by an agent reading live planetary data — geomagnetic activity, solar wind, weather, aircraft overhead, the sun's position — and letting the sky decide what plays next.
sfrc-radio.jontoews.com
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