Simon Willison tests Claude Opus 5.5's musical composition: generating playable text music
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Simon Willison asked Claude Opus 5.5 to design a simple text-based music format and build a playable artifact at the level of the original The Secret of Monkey Island soundtrack. The result was more evocative of Monkey Island than expected and surprisingly good. He speculates that a text model's ability to compose music may be an emergent capability, like 3D graphics in the past, that appeared only in recent months, but says more experiments with new and older models are needed to confirm it.
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