Listening To Music

Listen to generated music by measuring it and by reading it as sheet music: render Strudel code or record a Web Audio page through the real engine in headless Chromium, then read spectrograms, pYIN pitch lines, chroma, roughness and semitone-rub meters; engrave notes as a score with beat-by-beat harmony; transcribe a melody from audio; read MusicXML/MIDI/ABC or a score image into notes and into Strudel code. Use to check whether generated music sounds right or better (before/after a change), to match a reference track, spectrogram image or score, or to find discordant chords, a buried melody, clipping or muddy mixes. Triggers on 'does it sound better', 'listen to', 'render and check', 'spectrogram', 'sfft/stft', 'discordant', 'clashing chords', 'sounds off', 'compare to the original', 'reproduce this track in Strudel', 'sheet music', 'score', 'notation', 'MusicXML', 'MIDI', 'ABC', 'transcribe', 'OMR'. Pairs with strudeling (writing Strudel); for format conversion use processing-video.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/listening-to-music
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/listening-to-music/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/listening-to-music/SKILL.md

@misc{listening-to-music-2026,
  author    = {oaustegard},
  title     = {Listening To Music [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/listening-to-music/}
}