Compose and produce music through conversation

The author used Claude Code to write music and lyrics and build tooling integrated with Bitwig; one honky-tonk song was made entirely by conversation.

What They Did

The author used Claude 4.5 models in Claude Code to write multi-track music and lyrics, plus the tooling for composing and producing. Claude was connected to Bitwig Studio through projects such as a Bitwig content search CLI and the Jeannie controller framework. For the honky-tonk song, the author held the whole conversation with Claude and opened Bitwig only at the end, to load the generated content.

How It Went

The gist collects five songs, including a symphony finale and a twelve-song concept album, with MIDI and lyrics on GitHub. It gives no metrics, and the skipper and voxel projects have no example audio yet.

Worth Knowing

The honky-tonk song needed the Jeannie framework, and the Bitwig integration is custom tooling, so expect to set up or build that tooling yourself.