Chime Garden

Wind chimes tuned to a pentatonic scale, over a night-air pad.

Click for sound, sweep through the chimes

The prompt

“A playable wind chime instrument at night: metal rods tuned to a pentatonic scale swing on a branch and ring with ripples of light when my cursor sweeps through them, over a soft ambient pad”

Ask Perlin, the VYBE.ART creative agent, for something like this and it builds a piece like it. Start from this prompt and change any part of it: the look, the mood, the rules, the sound.

Start from this prompt

How it’s made

Chime Garden is a p5.js sketch with sound. It is a p5.js sketch, JavaScript drawing on a canvas frame by frame, live in your browser. Its soundtrack is composed alongside the visuals; click it for sound.

Make it yours

  1. Open it in the studio, where it plays with its controls, and its code is a click away.
  2. Tell Perlin what to change in a sentence: a colour, a mood, a new rule, a sound.
  3. Bend it with its sliders, or put it on a timeline and render it to video.
  4. Publish it to the community, share its link or embed it on your site.

New to the studio? Make your first piece

More like this

Every example

Your turn / Free to start

Describe it. Perlin builds it.

Art, games and worlds you can step inside, from one sentence. Play it, bend it, put it on a timeline, share it.