Wasda
Experience transformer attention as music
Details
- External ID
- 45991272
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Wasda
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 20, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.0982532751091703
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I built Wasda, a tiny experiment to turn transformer attention into a playable musical instrument. Each token in the sequence becomes a piano note, and you can see the attention arcs between tokens while you listen. Temperature controls the “improvisation” of the model, and you can solo individual attention heads — for example, I’ve found temp ~1.7 with one head selected gives surprisingly relaxing patterns.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and music production tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- transformer attention visualized as music
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Extracting attention weights from an open-source transformer model (using Hugging Face or ONNX in browser) and mapping those values to Web Audio API piano notes with SVG visual arcs is an accessible creative coding project.
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