BPM-001 OWNER'S MANUAL

Back
Pocket
Music.

Building the tools that should already exist. Mostly in a browser. Mostly on purpose.

Rev. 2026.05 Traverse City, MI Status: Powered On scorecanvas.io
01 — Portfolio

The work.
All of it.

One flagship product, and the ecosystem that built it.

AI / Prompts

Songwright

songwright.netlify.app ↗

Audio Processing

Retroizer

retroizer.com ↗

Waveform Editor

Pocket Knife

pocketknife ↗

Precision Metronome

Pocket Watch

pocketwatch ↗

Sister Label

Interactive Music Systems

interactivemusicsystems.com ↗

Performance Project

KBD Trio

kbdtrio.com ↗

Community

TC Audio

tcaudio.co ↗

Visual / Ambient

Tubez

tubez ↗

Satire

Corporate Apology

corporateapology.com ↗
02 — AI Studio

We taught the
machines to
listen.

Claude · ElevenLabs · Kie.ai — all in the browser, no install required.

🎙

ElevenLabs V3 · Kie.ai

Dialogue
Lab

Multi-speaker voiced dialogue with emotional direction. Assign voices, write lines, drop in emotion tags — [excitedly], [whispering], [sighing] — and generate expressive audio from the ElevenLabs Text-to-Dialogue V3 model. 80+ voice characters. 70+ languages. Built for game audio prototyping, podcast intros, and scenes that need a soul.

Multi-speaker Emotion tags 80+ voices
🎵

AI Music Generation · Kie.ai

Song
Studio

Full AI music generation from text prompts. Generate complete tracks, extend sections, replace parts, remove vocals, upload and remix your own audio. Style descriptors, custom lyrics, negative prompts, and full production workflow — not just a simple generator.

Text-to-Music Extend Section Replace Vocal Remove Mashup
🤖

Claude Sonnet · Anthropic

AI
Composer

Describe a mood, a reference, a feeling — get production-ready prompts for AI music generators, voice tools, and sound designers. Claude reasons like a composer and speaks the language of the models. Powered by the same frameworks behind Songwright, now directly in the browser.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Music prompts Dialogue scripts Style analysis
03 — The Lab

One instrument.
Every sound.

A polyphonic synthesizer built for audio designers. Web Audio API + Tone.js + Web MIDI. No installation. No server.

Polyphonic Synthesizer · Hex Isomorphic Keybed · Web MIDI

SOMA neural synthesis engine

A full polyphonic synthesizer in the browser. 2 oscillators, resonant filter with envelope, LFO, and a complete effects chain — distortion, chorus, delay, reverb. 37-key on-screen keyboard, laptop keyboard mapping, and automatic Web MIDI connection for USB keyboards. Scale lock across 12 modes. 8 production presets. Oscilloscope and FFT spectrum analyzer running at 60fps.

Web MIDI 8-voice poly 2 Oscillators LP / HP / BP Filter Env LFO Arpeggiator Scale Lock Oscilloscope FFT Spectrum 8 Presets
Live

All tools run in the browser. No installation. No account. No waiting.

Open Full Lab →
04 — Field Notes

Experiments,
accidents,
and things that worked.

Dispatches from the frontier of AI music and browser audio.

Sep 2025

From Instrumental to Anthem: AI-Powered Finishing

A back catalog of released instrumentals, always feeling incomplete. Fed them to an AI remix engine as professional-quality source material. The principle: garbage in, garbage out. The results: genuinely startling. Every track presented raw, no DAW.

AI Music · Experiment

2025 — Ongoing

Micro-Tuning for Alternate Tunings

Extending sweetened tuning beyond standard guitar. Browser tools that calculate optimal cent offsets for DADGAD, Open G, Nashville — any system. Because equal temperament is a compromise and you're not a compromiser.

Acoustics · Tuning

2024–2025

13 Months, Thousands of AI Songs, One Framework

The research behind Songwright. Systematic experimentation with source-first production methods, translating the vocabulary of professional composition into descriptors these models can act on. The patterns that emerged became a product.

Research · Songwright
05 — Signal Source

Tools for composers
who think
in systems.

I've spent 17 years designing music systems for games at PlayStation Studios — scores for The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Journey. Grammy-nominated, BAFTA-recognized work that taught me one thing above all else: the best music happens when you build the right system and then get out of its way.

Back Pocket Music is where that philosophy lives outside the studio. I build tools at the intersection of music theory, acoustics, and AI — not to replace the composer, but to remove the friction between the idea and the sound.

Browser instruments that make complex musical concepts playable. Prompt engines that translate feeling into production-ready direction. Score notation that lives where you already work. Everything here is built with the same conviction: if a tool should exist and doesn't, build it.

The best creative technology is the kind that disappears — leaving nothing between you and the music except the decision to press play.

tedkocher.com ↗ ted@tedkocher.com

Focus Areas

  • Interactive Music Systems
  • Browser-Native Tooling
  • Acoustics & Tuning
  • Browser Audio Tools
  • AI Music Production
  • Adaptive Scoring

Stack

  • Web Audio API
  • Tone.js
  • Vanilla JS
  • Claude / Anthropic
  • ElevenLabs
  • AI Music via Kie.ai

Design Philosophy

  • Offline-first
  • Single-file when possible
  • Beginner-friendly
  • Copy / paste deployable
  • No venture capital

Credits

  • 3× Grammy Nominated
  • 4× BAFTA Recognized
  • 50+ Shipped Titles
  • PlayStation Studios
  • 17 Years AAA

Caution

Back Pocket Music L.L.C. is not responsible for: decisions made while listening to generative ambient at 2AM, the realization that all music is just air vibrating, or the sudden urge to buy a modular synth you cannot afford. No refunds. No returns. No equal temperament.