百刻 Hundred Quarters

Artificial slowness.

Study and focus with a slow Chinese ink scroll, a breathing timer, and music written as a score.

Time here is kept the old way: in breaths (息), in the day's light, and in the 72 pentads (候). A new piece each 候.

The music is process music after Steve Reich: a cycle of chords, a pulse of ten beats to a breath. Each month's mode and key come from the Monthly Ordinances (《禮記·月令》).

The scroll is inspired by Lingdong Huang's generative shan shui and the classics of Chinese landscape painting. A black cat with white paws walks through it.

We're tired of the flood of AI slop too. So we use AI differently: Claude Code, a coding agent, writes the engine with us, line by line, in conversation. The AI writes code, not music or pictures. We set the direction, listen, look, and send it back until it's right; every sound and frame comes from the score, picked by our taste. A human and an AI building one thing slowly, together. Artificial slowness.