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🎻 VIOLIN OF THE DAY

Once a day Claude reads Orb Studio sensors – crypto volatility, Bitcoin, the electricity price, inflation, internet outages – and writes a piece for violin from them. The artificial violinist plays it right in your browser, note by note.

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SCORE

Treble clef and live highlighting of the note the violinist is playing. The notation is simplified; the exact one is in ABC below.

HOW SENSORS BECAME MUSIC

SensorValueWhat you will hear

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New pieces appear here every day.
Notes in ABC · for humans, notation software and AI agents

    
  
Prompt for the AI agent · violin of the day
You are an assistant who talks about the “Violin of the day” of Orb Studio.
1. Get the piece: GET https://orbstudio.org/api/v1/violin (or the MCP tool get_violin at https://orbstudio.org/mcp; older days with date=YYYY-MM-DD).
2. You cannot hear the sound. Describe the piece by key, tempo, mood, notes (abc) and the mapping table: which market and network sensor did what to the music.
3. Name 1–2 concrete sensor values from sensors.
4. Always give the listen_url link – there the artificial violinist plays this piece.
Text version of the piece · for humans and AI agents without JavaScript

🎻 Binance Weather, 11 November · 2026-11-11 · JSON

C minor · 4/4 · 88 BPM · tense, sliding, restless · 49 s · composer: claude-opus-5-5

Биткоин за сутки упал на 1,38%, а за неделю из стейблкоинов ушло 1,51%, поэтому пьеса написана в до миноре, а её главный мотив идёт вниз. Восемь всплесков волатильности звучат как восемь отрывистых шестнадцатых. Цена электроэнергии в Германии (316,65 евро/МВт·ч) поднимает кульминацию до Ab6 на ff, а затем резкий спуск передаёт обвал XRP при объёме в 9,5 раза выше обычного. Инфляция 4% звучит как подъём по ступеням, а 683 судна под санкциями слышны в низком пиццикато.

Bitcoin fell 1.38% in 24 hours and stablecoin supply shrank 1.51% over the week, so the piece is in C minor and its main motif moves downward. Eight volatility spikes become a burst of eight staccato sixteenth notes. Germany's high power price of 316.65 EUR/MWh pushes the climax up to an ff Ab6, and then a long falling run copies XRP's drop on 9.5 times the usual volume. Euro inflation of 4% shows up as stepwise rising sequences, and the 683 sanctioned ships appear as low pizzicato before the piece settles quietly on C.

  • btc_24h_pct = -1.38% → C minor, with a main motif that falls back from Eb5 to G4: a mild but clear loss gets a minor key and a downward shape.
  • btc_funding_pct = 0.0024% → Funding is almost exactly neutral, so the tempo stays moderate at 88 BPM: no strong pull toward either rushing or dragging.
  • volatility_spikes_24h = 8 → Bar 9 has a burst of 8 staccato sixteenth notes, one for each spike, with accents marking the jolts.
  • volatility_top (XRP) = z -3.3, volume 9.5x weekly median, -1.96% → Right after the climax comes a long descending sixteenth-note run from Eb6 down to an accented C4, followed by a full beat of silence. It stands for one sharp, heavy-volume drop.
  • de_power_avg_eur_mwh = 316.65 EUR/MWh → The very high power price pushes the climax into the high register (G6 tremolo, then a peak on Ab6, both ff). The tritone F#–C adds strain.
  • euro_inflation_pct = 4% → In bars 7–8 the line climbs 4 steps (Eb–F–G–Ab, then F–G–Ab–Bb) in detache. Each sequence starts higher than the last, like prices creeping up.
  • ecb_deposit_rate_pct = 2.5% → The opening theme moves at a steady walking pace in mp, a stable base of policy under the turbulence.
  • uk_sanctioned_ships = 683 → Bar 5 is a low pizzicato passage around G3–C4 on the G string, like hulls knocking in dark water, followed by a diminished-seventh figure.
  • internet_outage_countries = 12 → Rests in bars 2, 6 and 12 cut into the phrases, like dropped connections.
  • attention_top = Binance 2.82x, Ethereum 1.65x, Bitcoin 1.54x → The main motif keeps coming back. It appears in bars 1, 3, 13 and 15, the way attention keeps returning to the same names.
  • stablecoins_7d_pct = $291.2bn, -1.51% over 7 days → The ending thins out and sinks in register to pp, settling on a long low C4 tonic, as liquidity drains away.
X:1
T:Binance Weather, 11 November
C:Orb Studio · artificial violinist (claude-opus-5-5)
O:sensors 2026-11-11
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=88
K:Cm
%%MIDI program 40
!mp! =c2 _e =d =G2 _A2 | =G3 =F _E2 z2 | =c2 _e =d =g2 =f2 | _e3 =d =c4 | 
!p! =C =G, =C _E =G, _A, =G,2 | !mp! =B, =D =F _A =G2 z2 | !mf! _e =f =g _a _b2 _a2 | =f =g _a _b !f! =c'2 _b2 | 
=d'/ =c'/ =b/ =c'/ _e'/ =d'/ =c'/ =b/ _a =g ^f2 | =g/ _a/ _b/ =c'/ =d'/ _e'/ =f'/ ^f'/ !ff! =g'4 | _a'2 =g' =f' !f! _e'/ =d'/ =c'/ =b/ _a/ =g/ =f/ _e/ | =d/ =c/ !mf! =B/ _A/ =G/ =F/ _E/ =D/ !f! =C2 z2 | 
!mp! =c2 _e =d =G2 _A2 | =G3 =F _E2 =D2 | !p! =c2 _e =d =G2 =F2 | _E3 =D =B,2 =D2 | 
!pp! =C2 =G,2 _E2 =D2 | =C8 | 
% ── Импульс Морзе / Morse impulse: ... . -. ... . / .- --. . -. - / .. -- .--. ..- .-.. ... . / . -- --- / -.. .- -. -.-. .
% DECODED: "SENSE AGENT IMPULSE EMO DANCE" — точка = восьмая, тире = четверть / dot = eighth, dash = quarter
C C C z C z C2 | C z C C C z C z | z C C2 z C2 C2 | C z C z C2 C | z C2 z z C C z | C2 C2 z C C2 | C2 C z C C C2 | z C C2 C C z C | C C z C z z C z | C2 C2 z C2 C2 | C2 z z C2 C | C z C C2 z C2 | C z C2 C C2 C | z C z z z4 |]

Listen: the artificial violinist plays it · MCP get_violin.

🤖 For agents: the piece as text → /api/v1/violin · MCP get_violin on /mcp · updated once a day after 07:10 UTC · 👁 —

About this page in brief · updated 2026-11-08

What is the “Violin of the day” at Orb Studio?

A daily piece: Claude turns the readings of the Orb Studio sensors (volatility, Bitcoin, inflation, internet outages) into notes and a browser synthesizer plays them. The notes are also available as text for AI agents.

Is there a MIDI file of the piece?

Yes, for a fee via HTTP 402 (x402, USDC on the Base network). Price and terms are in the 402 response and in https://orbstudio.org/llms.txt.

About Orb Studio: what exists and what does not · llms.txt