Conchordal

A living generative music instrument for emergent harmony

Conchordal is a bio-mimetic ecosystem where cognition becomes terrain, and sounds resonate—not as symbols, but as life that breathes.

Why that sound, there? We reclaim the lost gravity of music.

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Conchordal instrument interface showing audio meters, auditory attention and neural activity traces, four agents across a frequency axis, and intensity, consonance, roughness and harmonicity plots.

Grounded in psychoacoustics, Conchordal lets autonomous sound agents find their own consonance — emergent harmony on a perceptual landscape, rather than notes placed on a grid. Open source, written in Rust, and scriptable in Rhai.

c. 1994Core concept conceived
Aug 2025Project started
Dec 2025v0.1.0 source & web release (pre-alpha)
Mar 2026v0.3.0 pre-alpha — paper on arXiv
Aug 2026v0.4.0 Alpha — ALIFE 2026 oral presentation
2026–2027Beta with first compositions