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Argues that writing code makes music theory testable, using programmatic sound generation to model bird song and validate hypotheses rather than relying on description alone. Builds small experiments and synth patches that play phrases and let motifs be manipulated in real time, claiming this reveals structure in bird song. Uses Overtone (Clojure) plus mentions Sonic Pi and TidalCycles as tooling, reports that the prototypes run and let patterns be heard and iterated immediately.
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