Very impressive that so seemingly simple thing can produce nice sounding (rhythmically) phrases from almost anything you draw.

I think so. Haha

What a find.

This is really really interesting, check it out guys!

"Otomata is a generative sequencer. It employs a cellular automaton type logic I’ve devised to produce sound events.

Each alive cell has 4 states: Up, right, down, left. at each cycle, the cells move themselves in the direction of their internal states. If any cell encounters a wall, it triggers a pitched sound whose frequency is determined by the xy position of collision, and the cell reverses its direction. If a cell encounters another cell on its way, it turns itself clockwise.

This set of rules produces chaotic results in some settings, therefore you can end up with never repeating, gradually evolving sequences. Go add some cells, change their orientation by clicking on them, and press play, experiment, have fun.

If you encounter something you like, just press “Copy Piece Link” and save it somewhere, or better, share it!"

http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata

I already made some interesting musical ideas with this...It's really surprising me with the things this creates, makes me wonder what else this guy might come up with in the future! Imagine all the things you can do with the audio you get from this, like changing keys, or cutting samples out of it, or speeding it up really fast and using it as a soft percussive sound effect, or somehow making it raw data and turning it into a picture, jeeze, the possibilities are endless. Check it out, so so so cool.

I'm definitely using this in my new stuff.