Claude wrote buggy Strudel code, but the track got made
A new live-coding tool, Strudel, and no experience using it. Claude wrote the starting code, including sample filenames that turned out not to exist, then restructured it for live performance once it was tweaked by hand.
Done withClaudeSpotted· by Emmet Connolly· Oct 20, 2026
Result Called it nothing they would listen to at home
“Would I claim this music to be of distinct artistic merit? No. Would I listen to this at home? Also no.”
Spotted: found in the wild. Details are as reported by the source above and have not been independently verified.
What they did
They prompted Claude with a description of the music style they wanted and asked it to write Strudel code, a web-based tool for live coding where you edit code in real time to play music. They had never used Strudel before, and manually tweaked or rejected lines, since some of Claude’s sample filenames did not actually exist. Once they had a version built up by hand, they pasted it back into Claude and asked it to restructure the code for easier live performance.
How it went
The whole effort took about 4 hours including writing it up, and they say they would not claim the music has distinct artistic merit or that they would listen to it at home. They still called it fun and plan to keep experimenting with live coding.
Try it yourself with Claude
Describe a music style or mood to [AI tool] and ask it to write code for a live-coding environment like Strudel, for example a [genre] pattern using [instruments/samples]. Expect some invented sample names you will need to fix by hand. Once you have a version you like, paste it back in and ask the AI to restructure the code into clearly separated sections so you can comment blocks in and out during a live performance.
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