It's interesting... On Safari if you put it into a background tab you can hear the music slow down as the thread gets less processing time.

Someone left a comment when this was submitted 8 hours ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018404

The funny thing is, as a musician, I came at this the wrong way, with an idea in my head that I tried to express using the pieces. I ended up frustrated at the sequencing limitations.

Then I just tried playing around, making a little neighborhood while the cars cruised about, ringing the scenery. Since the notes follow a pre-defined scale, you can't really "mess up" the sound. Now I don't want to quit!

My first thought was "lame." Then i clicked the demo island. Five mins later is was jamming with it.

Well done.

I'd love to see this on a game console. I imagine it would be fun having 2 or more people with Wii controllers improvising together on the same island.

The look of Isle of Tune reminds me of the artwork for the last David Byrne/Brian Eno album. Coincidence?

This is awesome but would be ten times cooler if it was (semi) turing complete: traffic lights which can change the direction of flow and portals to jump cars to another spot.

Too much freedom, and the beat becomes too irregular and therefore less appealing. Simplicity is beauty, as usual.

At first I thought you misspelled rhodes but then I realized this is the coolest thing I've ever seen.

Mod Tracker + SimCity, even I of no musical talent was able to make something amusing with it. Neat.

This is great, I've been working on a related idea. Its really cool to see this.