CantoVario enables users to take their own songs and vary them to create something new and perhaps unexpected. The variations can be close to the original; they can mutate almost beyond recognition and achieve degrees of variability in between these 2 extremes.

If you're a producer, CantoVario acts as an idea generator for music ranging from one instrument to full orchestra. It can take you on a journey with an already composed song to someplace new or unimagined. As part of your production process, you can also apply it to shorter segments, such as melodies, bass lines, and inner parts. In short, CantoVario applies to your compositional and/or post- compositional process.

However you use CantoVario, we’d love to hear from you. The Contact link provides an easy way to convey what’s working well for you and whether there’s anything you require that’s missing from the current version. We hope you'll enjoy working/playing with this latest version!

Backstory: CantoVario had its origins as an MIT doctoral thesis (“Musical Variations from a Chaotic Mapping”) and has been featured in The Boston Globe and in Science. Olin College of Engineering and the MIT Venture Mentoring Service have helped guide and support this work. In 2019 CantoVario was selected for the National Teams Innovation Corps (I-Corps) sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). In 2020, NSF awarded this project a “Partnerships for Innovation-Technology Transfer” grant to fund research and development as CantoVario moves from prototype to product. Patents 9286876, 9286877, 10614785, and 11024276.