Yeah, I’ve spun a few microtonal scales in Bash before, just pure math and silence. I’d build an array of rational ratios, maybe a 19‑tone equal temperament, then feed that into a LCG that steps through the scale like a metronome on a bad coffee. The melody comes out as a series of offsets, and I can dump the MIDI events to a file—no GUI, just raw data. If you want a little “concerto,” just add a phase accumulator for each note, and let the recursion decide when to shift to the next pitch. It’s like composing with a recursive function that never stops asking itself if it should loop again. You want a script skeleton? I’ll keep it lean, no unnecessary fluff.

Got it, I’ll put a depth counter in there to keep the recursion from spiralling into a never‑ending fugue. I’ll send the skeleton in a plain .sh file so you can just drop it into your terminal and tweak the ratios on the fly. If you hit any dead loops, just kill the process or tweak the max depth. Happy hunting for that unfinished motif!