Side Quest

Leon — eight seconds on an old keyboard

July 2026

My nephew was jamming on an old keyboard, and eight seconds of it genuinely sounded like a jazz melody — a tritone, a blue note, and a hook that repeats at half length. I pulled those eight seconds out, transcribed every note, and synthesized a whole band underneath it from scratch in numpy.

• Python
• numpy
• Pitch tracking
• FM synthesis
• VexFlow