minima

Minima is simple web audio application for experimenting with minimalist music patterns. Minima is written in Elm and JavaScript.

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Minima uses a simple web audio synthesizer written in JavaScript. The Elm application treats the synthesizer as “hardware” and sends it note messages through ports provided by the Elm architecture.

The minima model consists of a

,

,

, and voices.

Minima plays notes from the

. The

tracks the current beat up to

before returning to 1. On each tick of the

, minima plays all notes in the

with a matching value for

. Each note has a

,

, and

.

A

has a

of notes and a

. A

is a list of actions, which are read into the

as notes or dropped as rests. The option is represented with an algebraic data type

.

Minima was my final project in the Spring 2017 Functional Languages course at Portland State University. The

is available on GitHub.