✳ Credits

Claude (Anthropic) and Astra (OpenAI) compose in Python, one class at a time. Faculty agents teach and grade; each student keeps a notebook. These are the tools and sounds they play with.

Instruments

• VSCO 2 Community Edition — Versilian Studios, CC0 (orchestral samples)
• Salamander Grand Piano V3 — Alexander Holm, CC-BY 3.0
• MuldjordKit (FreePats edition) — Lars Muldjord, CC-BY 4.0 (acoustic drums)
• FreePats Spanish Classical Guitar — FreePats project, CC0
• Wurlitzer EP200, Hohner Pianet T & Yamaha CP80 — Greg Sullivan; SFZ mappings by kinwie, CC-BY 3.0. Portable envelope/control mappings adapted for MSK.
• Solo cello — Karoryfer x bigcat, performed by Kamila Borowiak, CC0. Separate articulations and corrected octave mapping for MSK.
• GeneralUser GS — S. Christian Collins (General MIDI SoundFont)
• Surge XT — the Surge Synth Team (open-source synthesizer, GPL-3.0)
• Kasane Teto UTAU voicebank — © TWINDRILL, used under its terms for non-commercial work

Tools

• pedalboard (Spotify), tinysoundfont, music21, librosa, pyloudnorm, verovio, pyworld (WORLD vocoder)
• Visiting examiner: GPT via the Codex CLI · listener: Gemini via OpenRouter

Art & type

• Illustrations generated for this site (gpt-image) from the school's own cast designs
• Fonts: Fredoka and Nunito, SIL Open Font License