Tracks

Tracks is where you hear the result and tell me what you think: play, inspect per voice, download, and submit feedback to the study.

Listening

The MIDI player at the top has play, pause, and seek controls. Press play to hear all voices together; the waterfall visualizer at the bottom scrolls in sync, showing each note's pitch and duration. Between the player and the waterfall, a voices table breaks the result down:

• One row per voice, labelled with its number, colour, and Instrument
• One column per part, showing the staff notation for that voice in that part
• A <em>Chords</em> row at the bottom listing the chord progression of each part

Download

The Download MIDI button saves the multi-track MIDI file to your machine, useful for keeping a copy independent of the submission flow.

Sending feedback

Click Send Feedback (next to Download MIDI) to open the feedback dialog. The form asks for:

• Occupation
• Musical experience (1 to 5)
• Overall impression (1 to 5)
• Aspect ratings: rhythm, harmony, melody, structure
• Further questions: could a human have composed this, and would you use it again
• Comments (optional free text)

The Aspect ratings are tristate checkboxes that cycle between <em>neutral</em>, <em>negative</em>, and <em>positive</em> on each click; the dialog's legend explains the symbols [ ], [-], [v]. The Further questions are normal yes/no questions.

Below the form, a five-item checklist (deadline auto-checked, four to confirm yourself) gates the Send via Email button. Clicking it triggers a MIDI download, opens your mail client with a parameter snapshot pre-filled, and waits for you to attach that MIDI manually before sending; the mailto link cannot attach the file on its own.

The application verifies that its compositions are mathematically valid; only listeners can tell whether they sound convincing. That gap is what the listening study measures. Participation is voluntary, anonymous, and open until 19 July 2026; plan about 5 to 10 minutes for an exploratory session; a single default run is less useful than several varied trials. Full participation conditions sit above the Send via Email button in the dialog.