Recently I was listening to music and doing some late night vibe coding when I had an idea. I love art and music, but unfortunately have no artistic talent whatsoever. So I wondered, maybe Claude Code does?
I know Claude Code is getting pretty damn good at building software, but it seems like we're still not really scratching the surface of its full potential.
For complex AI generated music, tools like Suno and Udio are obviously in a different league as they're trained specifically on audio and can produce genuinely impressive results. But that's not what this experiment was about.
Here are some one-shot prompts I ran to learn more about Claudé (the name for this expressive version of Claude Code I made up).
E x p e r i m e n t 1 Write an original song
"Create a new song that is completely original by you. Do not look in any other directories or do any exploration of any kind. You cannot use any third party dependencies. Don't ask me any questions. You should not complete until you've generated an audio file in the current directory for me to listen to. That is the only output that is acceptable."
Claudé immediately started writing Python code. It built sounds from scratch using sine waves and a bunch of other math I don't really understand.
It mapped out frequencies for each musical note, wrote functions to make notes fade in and out naturally, then structured a full song: intro, verse, chorus, bridge and finale.
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It sounds like something between a ringtone and a video game from 1985, but it is technically a song.
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