Graphony
Experimental Music Composition
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Experimental Music Composition
Graphony is a composition environment for academic and experimental composers. Rather than entering notes one at a time, you design a piece from the top down by drawing graphs of its musical parameters, then export a MusicXML score to complete in your notation software and render an audio version using sounds you record yourself.
JUMPSTART A COMPOSITION WITH GRAPHS
Set the length, meter, and tempo, then draw a curve over time for each parameter:
- Pitch content (register and range)
- Event duration
- Density (how many events sound at once)
- Dynamics
- Connectivity, motivic patterns, and the amount of pitch-altering effects
The graphs are the generative blueprint of the piece. Reshape a curve and the material follows, so you can audition many versions of an idea in minutes. Reference curves from your other parameters are shown underneath, keeping every decision in context.
EXPORT A MUSICXML SCORE
Graphony writes a clean MusicXML file you can open in Sibelius, Dorico, Finale, or MuseScore, then edit and complete by hand. The score is a point of departure, not a finished product: it is fully yours to refine and notate.
HEAR IT WITH YOUR OWN SOUNDS
Record short sound samples, label them, and Graphony renders an audio version of the piece using those recordings. Each sound carries its own reference pitch, dynamics, articulation, and effects, so the realization reflects your own sonic material rather than a generic synthesizer.
FOR EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE
- Absolute pitch contour: the pitch graph maps to a real concert-pitch register, so the notation means what it says.
- Microtonal quarter-tones, chromatic-stepped glissandi, and detected chords notated on a single stem.
- A palette of per-sound effects: glissando, scratch, harmonic distortion, reverse, inverted pitch, and granular fragment.
- "Notate as C" writes a sound's notes on a single placeholder middle C, so you can set their pitches by hand later.
- Sound roles (sustainer, punctuator, doubler, texture) are distinguished by notehead.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Everything stays on your device. Graphony has no accounts, no ads, and collects no data. Your graphs, recordings, scores, and audio never leave your iPhone or iPad unless you choose to share them.
Graphony is built to get an experimental idea out of your head and onto the page quickly: design it as graphs, hear it in your own sounds, and carry the score into your notation software to finish.
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Add MusicXML import and visual score preview with Verovio for each recorded sound for a more faithful score rendition.
Export source-preserving Faithful MusicXML with readable rhythms, beams, quarter-tones, noteheads, voices, and staves.
Create score-following MP4 movies with rendered score pages, playback cursors, spectrogram, and realization audio.
Watch completed score movies directly in Graphony or share the MP4.
Improve automatic note recognition for repeated notes, fast subjects, and quarter-tone material.
The developer, Leonid Iogansen, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Leonid Iogansen
- Size
- 24.2 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Leonid Iogansen