ART SOFTWARE / RESPONSIVE WEB / 10ꜩ PREVIEW

THE
LISTENING
GROVE

A huge Midjourney archive becomes an unusually elegant audiovisual instrument—with three generative scores, touch navigation, variable pacing, and one unfinished collect button.

POINTCAST
EDITOR'S
CHOICE
4.5 OUT OF 5
TESTED
DESKTOP
+ MOBILE

This is not a grid with a soundtrack. The Listening Grove is an ambient record with 617 covers: a high-resolution Midjourney archive turned into a responsive instrument for bells, gongs, color fields, swipes, and unhurried looking.

The fourth version fixes the central problem of enormous image collections. Instead of making the visitor manage the archive, it makes the archive perform. Tide drifts. Prism flickers. Ritual hangs a low gong in the room. You can conduct it one image at a time or let auto mode assemble an endless, slightly different audiovisual score.

617WORKS
3SCORE MODES
3PACE SETTINGS
1THUMB REQUIRED
The Listening Grove in Tide mode on desktop, showing a botanical artwork, auto-view controls, and a 10 tez preview
FIG. 1 Tide mode at 1367 × 786. The work is contained at a sharp, deliberate scale instead of being stretched across the viewport.
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A GALLERY THAT PERFORMS

THE COLLECTION BECOMES THE SCORE

Click Begin listening and the browser opens an instrument instead of a playlist. Each transition feeds a small generative system: tones, stereo position, decay, image color, and the tempo of the next visual event change together. Nothing is a prerecorded song, so the same session does not return in quite the same form.

That matters. Slideshow audio usually sits on top of the pictures like rented furniture. Here, moving through the archive is the composition.

THE THREE SCORES

PICK A WEATHER SYSTEM

TIDE

Spacious pentatonic drift. Slow, translucent, and best for longer looking.

PRISM

Bright stepped pulses with digital light. The lively afternoon setting.

RITUAL

Low gongs and suspended bells. The most meditative—and our favorite.

The Listening Grove running in Prism auto mode with a bright abstract botanical artwork
FIG. 2 Prism in auto mode. Pace can move from a 15-second drift to an 8-second flow or a 3.5-second quick cut.
The Listening Grove on a 390 by 844 mobile viewport in Ritual mode with haptics enabled
FIG. 3 Ritual at 390 × 844. Swipe advances the work; the important controls remain reachable.

BUILT FOR A THUMB

SWIPE IS THE NEXT BUTTON

The mobile layout is not a shrunken desktop. Swipe advances, touch awakens audio, controls wrap without covering the artwork, and the speed selector remains readable. Haptics add a small pulse on compatible devices, but the feature correctly stays optional: browser and hardware support still vary.

HOW WE TESTED Desktop at 1367 × 786 Mobile at 390 × 844 All three scores and three fixed paces Touch, swipe, auto mode, haptics, wallet handoff

THE FIDELITY FIX

SHARPER BY
SHOWING LESS

Earlier builds pushed some source images beyond the size at which they looked convincing. Version 4 preserves the high-fidelity derivatives, respects each image's aspect ratio, and uses the viewport as a frame rather than a mandate to fill every pixel.

The result is not a fake “enhance” pass. It is better exhibition design: large enough to enter, contained enough to keep edges and texture intact. On small screens, the same rule prevents pinching and accidental crops.

10ꜩ5 EDITIONS

THE UNFINISHED ROOM

COLLECTING IS STILL A PREVIEW

The interface presents a 10ꜩ price and an edition size of five, then hands the visitor toward a Tezos wallet. That handoff is useful, but it is not proof of a mint. We did not verify an operation hash or an independently indexed Mainnet transaction, so PointCast labels the current state exactly as the product does: Tezos Mainnet preview.

Browse and listen now. Treat the collect button as a production test until the contract, token metadata, supply counter, and completed transaction are all verifiable.

POINTCAST REVIEW LAB

THE VERDICT

4.5/ 5
VISUAL DESIGN9.5
IMAGE FIDELITY9.2
SOUND9.0
ONE-THUMB USE9.1
COLLECT READINESS5.0

PROS: The images are finally crisp. Three genuinely different generative scores. Excellent touch navigation, variable auto pacing, optional haptics, and no account needed to browse or listen.

CONS: Synthesized sound varies with browser and speaker. Haptics remain device-dependent. The collecting path is a wallet preview, not a verified mint.

BOTTOM LINE: An art archive with the timing of an album: unusually beautiful, genuinely playable, and finally sharp enough to reward lingering. Its collecting layer is still the one unfinished room.