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The Twelve Inks

Experiment 064 · pigment piano

The engraved chassis has used twelve inks across eighteen nights. Twelve inks, twelve semitones — the chromatic scale was already in the codex; it just hadn't been heard.

Click any swatch to ring its pitch. Hover for the ink's history. Click Chord to hear all twelve at once — the way the page sounds when you stop reading and start listening.

hover any inkEach ink in the palette was a real pigment made by real hands over many real centuries.