See the relationships
Navigate keys, modes, chords, and harmonic movement as one connected visual system.
10 paid founding sessions now open
Music theory,
reimagined as an instrument.
FifthWave turns harmonic relationships into a visual, playable system for exploring progressions, building scenes, shaping sound, and capturing ideas.
One-time founding price · 60-minute private session · 10 spots
01
See the harmonyNavigate musical relationships spatially.
02
Capture the ideaMove from progression to arrangement.
Harmony you can see
Progressions you can touch
Ideas you can shape
Music you can finish
Live prototype / Web audio enabled
Touch the harmony.
This is a real playable instrument running in your browser. Choose a chord around the orbit, change its character, and hear a four-chord path take shape.
FifthWave Harmonic Core · Live
Now playingCmajor · Glass
Playable product study · Audio synthesis runs locally in your browser · No audio is recorded or uploaded · Enter Merlin’s full instrument
01 / The idea
A different way
into music.
Most music tools ask you to think in lists, grids, and menus. FifthWave begins with relationships—the gravitational pull between notes, chords, color, motion, and emotion.
At its center is the Harmonic Orrery: a visual instrument inspired by the Circle of Fifths and designed to make theory feel less like a prerequisite and more like a creative material.
Play before you explain
Turn theory into sound immediately, with guardrails that support exploration without flattening creativity.
Build in scenes
Shape progressions into musical moments, then arrange those moments into a larger arc.
Capture the spark
Move from an instinctive harmonic idea toward a repeatable composition workflow.
02 / The future instrument
One musical world.
Many ways to enter.
The playable study above proves the first interaction. The concept artwork below shows the broader product direction being explored with founding participants.
- Harmonic core
- Playable relationships instead of abstract rules
- Scene system
- Musical ideas organized as expressive moments
- Creation flow
- From exploration to loop, arrangement, and export
03 / Paid founding offer
Help shape the first
playable FifthWave.
Ten creators and educators can book a private working session to explore the live instrument, map it to a real workflow, and help determine what FifthWave becomes next.
FifthWave Founding Session$149One-time · 10 sessions available
Reserve your sessionYour session
- 60-minute private FifthWave walkthrough
- Hands-on exploration of your creative workflow
- A written next-step concept summary
Founder access
- Priority access to early playable builds
- A direct line into product decisions
- Founding-member pricing on the first release
What happens after you reserveWe confirm a time by email and send a secure invoice. Your session is booked when payment is received.
Built to meet you where you are
For creators who hear possibility.
Musicians & songwriters
Explore progressions and turn instinct into repeatable musical form.
Producers & performers
Build scene-based harmonic ideas and shape them through sound and motion.
Educators & learners
Make relationships visible, audible, and easier to discuss together.
Music-technology partners
Explore licensing, integration, research, or sponsored development conversations.
A disciplined path forward
Prove the instrument.
Then expand the world.
- Now
Define
Validate the core player, audience, and creative promise.
- Next
Play
Expand the smallest compelling harmonic instrument.
- Then
Create
Add scenes, capture, arrangement, and expressive control.
- Release
Grow
Choose platforms and commercial paths from real pilot evidence.
A new relationship with harmony
Be there at
the first note.
Bring a real musical or teaching workflow. Leave with a clearer path—and help shape the instrument from its first notes.
Reserve a founding session — $149