Text to Music

Paste some text. Vowels become melody notes; consonants and punctuation become rhythm and rests. Japanese (hiragana/katakana) maps especially cleanly to pentatonic scales.

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How the mapping works
  • Japanese: vowel (あいうえお) → pitch from the 5-note scale. Voiced kana (が・ざ…) shift up one octave. Long mark extends the previous note. Small kana (っ) is a short rest. is a low percussive tick.
  • English: vowels (a/e/i/o/u/y) → pitch; consonants → a soft low tick; spaces and punctuation → rests of varying length.
  • Other characters (kanji, numbers, symbols): a brief rest so the reading rhythm continues.
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