About Wavespace

Wavespace is a music-making tool with a tracker-style interface inspired by programs like FastTracker and OpenMPT, created by Mondobe. It is designed with the foremost goal of making it as easy as possible to create music.

It seems rather counterintuitive, then, that (at the moment) there is no tutorial or manual for using the program. Rest assured that one will be coming as soon as it is ready for real users. Even now, however, experienced tracker musicians should have no problem using it.

The Wavespace manifesto

It seems today like every creative discipline, including music, is under seige thanks to an innumerable army of AI songs, AI "artists", AI tools, and companies that let it all happen, seemingly refusing to recognize that human creativity is the engine of artistic progress, and, without it, the advancement of culture grinds to a halt.

AI-generated music will never innovate the way Bach, Mozart, Miles Davis, the Beatles, Radiohead, and countless other artists pushed music forward and transformed audiences' tastes. Musical innovation is not simply a matter of stumbling across a new random combination of notes and waveforms. It requires an understanding of the culture around you, the values it professes, those it holds in secret, and the way it is shifting.

With that in mind, Wavespace is designed as the un-AI tool. Not the anti-AI tool - the existence of this website will do nothing to stop major streaming services from platforming AI-generated content on their curated playlists - but it may tip the scales for some aspiring artist who is contemplating the choice between typing a prompt and passively waiting for music to be generated or actively choosing sounds, thinking of melodies, and plotting notes with her own fingers.

Special thanks

• All the programs I've used to make music: Garageband, Org Maker, Beepbox, Famitracker, OpenMPT, and more.
• Composers that inspired me to make chiptune: Koji Kondo, Shogo Sakai, Daisuke Amaya, Fearofdark, and more.
• Scratch for showing me that a constructive social media based on creation rather than consumption is possible.
• Steam for showing me that users will forgo the path of least resistance (whether piracy or AI-generation) if the alternative has an accessible interface and a strong community.