Labs / Experiments

Small experiments,
kept open.

The Labs is where side ideas live. Most of these started as something I wanted to use myself, then grew into tools you can try in the browser. Pick anything that catches your eye and start playing.

New · Learning paths
Not sure where to start? Follow a path.
Two short journeys — Carnatic and Western — that show which tool helps at each step.
Series 01 · Carnatic

Start with Sa.

Find your home note, settle into a drone, then explore — two short steps, then the rest of the room opens up.

5 tools
/01 · Start here

Sa Finder

Pick a tanpura, hum along, save your home note. A starting point you can carry into the other tools.

Drone ·Sa ·Tanpura
/02 · Then settle

Shruti

A tanpura drone for practice. Set your Sa, add Pa, and run a slow shimmer pattern while you sing or play.

Drone ·Tanpura
/03

Raga Explorer

Browse all 72 Melakarta ragas. Hear arohana and avarohana, layer a tanpura drone, switch swara script, and explore on the keyboard.

Theory ·Keyboard ·72 Melakarta ·Multi-script
/04

Tala Clock

A riyaaz companion. Pick a tala and gati, layer konnakol or a drone, run a tempo ramp or silent cycles.

Rhythm ·Tala ·Konnakol ·Riyaaz
/05

Gamaka Trainer

Practise the slides and oscillations that make a raga a raga. Watch each gamaka’s pitch contour, hear it on violin or voice, slow it down, and sing it back.

Ornamentation ·Gamaka ·Technique ·Riyaaz
Series 02 · World music

Find your groove.

Drums, chords, strings, and ears — pick a room, spend ten minutes inside.

6 tools
/01

Beats & Grooves

Build drum patterns in the browser. Layer kick, snare, hats, and bass. Find the tempo, export a WAV, move on.

Drums ·WAV export
/02

Chord Explorer

Click a chord, hear it, see it on the piano. A small playground for getting chords and scales under your fingers.

Theory ·Piano
/03

Raga & Scale Finder

Tap the notes you hear. See every raga, scale, and chord that fits — in Western, Carnatic, or Hindustani notation.

Theory ·Ragas ·Scales ·Chords ·Reverse lookup
/04

Tarang: Learn

A seven-chapter guided tour of the guitar — from one string, to a chord, to a song.

Guitar ·Learn ·Strum patterns ·Chords
/05

Attune

Train your ear, gently. Hear a note, find it on the keys. A patient ear-training game.

Ear training ·Practice ·Game
/06

Pulse

Feel time signatures, don't memorise them. From 3/4 waltz to 7/8 lopsided grooves — visual, audible, felt.

Rhythm ·Time ·Meter ·Western
Series 03 · Writing

Open the notebook.

Quiet prompts and timers — pick a genre, write for two minutes, leave the page open.

1 tool
/01

Inkwell

Pick a genre, get a fresh prompt you haven't seen this week, and write for two or five minutes. Copy your piece out when you're done.

Prompts ·Timed ·Quiet UI
The quiet inbox

Wish a tool existed?

If there's a small tool you wish existed — a calculator, a timer, a browser experiment — tell us. If it's quick to build and fits the spirit of the place, we'll make it and publish it here.

thoughts.bots@gmail.com
We usually reply within a few days. Patience is part of the practice.
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