How’s this? With no instruction beyond “click a square,” you are now your own favorite musician. This is the Tone Matrix, a “simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer,” according to its developer, Andre Michelle. “Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute.” It’s a Flash app that’s unfortunately not embeddable, but just click over here.

This is all pretty 2009, I know. But new to me and, hopefully, you. Tone Matrix was an iPhone app — which it needs to be — but was removed from the Apple store for some reason. Tone Board appears to be about the same thing. A quick search for Tone Matrix and Android looks promising.

Also, a quick comment. I haven’t seen anything, like ever, that makes making music more user-friendly than this for non-musicians, putting it firmly in the whole argument about technology and its making music production/creation easier. And is that a bad thing? Tone Matrix looks ingenious in this light. It’s very easy to make music with it, but it’s also not really holding your hand through the process, or offering shortcuts. It’s just simple, and that’s the thing that makes it easy.

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