The Modality vs Ghosts

You've heard music from across the world and felt something move in you — without knowing why. The Modality is how you find out. Most apps teach music theory as rules to memorize. The Modality teaches it as something to hear — because every musical tradition is really a different way to turn sound into feeling. We start with two of the most beautiful, and we're adding more. TURKISH MAKAM 29 makams, from Rast to Ferahfeza — each drawn degree by degree, with its microtonal commas marked, its seyir, its mood, the hour it belongs to, and the ney to play it. MODAL JAZZ 14 modes across two scales: the seven modes of the major scale, and the seven of melodic minor — the language of tension and release, from Lydian dominant to the altered sound. WHERE THEY MEET The Crossroads is where the two traditions touch. Hicaz and the Phrygian dominant share one ancient interval — hear them side by side, ney against Rhodes piano. Saba and Locrian reach the same depth of feeling by the same turn. Two musical worlds, one tap apart. THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE MUSIC 64 composers and performers, from Itri and Dede Efendi to Miles Davis and Bill Evans — with portraits, lives, and every place in the app you can hear them. Tap any name on any recording and meet the person. HEAR IT EVERYWHERE - Iconic recordings and taksim improvisations for every major makam - Canonical tunes for every mode — So What, Maiden Voyage, Spain - Songs you already know, mapped to the makam they live in — classical, arabesk, Anatolian rock - Play any scale on the ney or Rhodes, from any root LEARN IT PROPERLY - A guided lesson path in each tradition, from "What is a makam?" up - Quizzes that unlock level by level - A glossary of both traditions' vocabulary — taksim, seyir, voicing, vamp - Usul rhythm patterns with audio For curious listeners, for Western musicians meeting microtones for the first time, and for Turkish speakers rediscovering their own tradition. Two ways of hearing, each one whole. More on the way.

Ghosts is a haunted radio: an instrument that plays the world's airwaves and lets you keep the moments worth keeping. Tune a live station. There are thousands of real broadcasters from every corner of the planet, and you can step through them, search for them, or land on one at random. The signal plate is always listening to the last 30 seconds of the air. When something good happens, press CATCH and it becomes a ghost: a loop that plays forever, layered under the radio, ready to be shaped. A phrase, a chord, a voice, a burst of static. If you heard it, you can keep it. WHY YOU'LL KEEP COMING BACK • A dial with thousands of stations: community radio, college radio, shortwave-style oddities, dead air and all. Step, search the directory, or hit RND and see where you land. • Catch with one press, or frame an exact slice of the air: anything from a single syllable to twenty seconds. • Up to 24 ghosts loop at once, each with its own strip on the mix console: fader, mute, solo. • Shape every ghost in the editor. Pitch it down to a moan, trim the loop to a single syllable, reverse it, wear it down with tape damage, crush, wow and flutter. • A master chain tuned for the aesthetic: space, warble, a valve limiter. The whole mix comes out sounding like a broadcast from somewhere that doesn't exist. • Record takes of your full mix and share them anywhere. Save sessions and return to a roster of ghosts exactly as you left it. • Lock-screen controls and background playback. It's a radio, so it behaves like one. NO STRINGS No account. No analytics. No ads. Nothing collected. Your ghosts, sessions, and recordings live on your device and nowhere else. The radio comes from the community-run radio-browser.info directory; recording requires your own material in the mix, because Ghosts is an instrument, not a stream ripper. Somewhere on the dial, right now, something is happening that will never happen again. Catch it.