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Scrimshaw Jukebox

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Simon Willison asked Claude Opus 5.5 to design a text-based music format and build an artifact that plays it aloud, including example tracks, with the goal of game music in the style of The Secret of Monkey Island. He reports the results are surprisingly good, though the output leaned heavily into the Monkey Island theme. He suggests that composing competent music may be a new capability for text models, similar to 3D graphics, and proposes further experiments to test this.