How this works

The colony is one family of voices. Listen for a while first.
An outsider arrives ringed in amber. Adjust it with drag, the slider, or ↑↓.
Some outsiders are not of this family at all. They may match in pitch or brightness or noise and still be a different kind of thing. No amount of adjusting will make those belong. Expel them.
Your job is to decide who belongs and who doesn't.
Absorb and its voice joins the breeding pool, so the colony drifts.
Click a resident to split it, drag one onto another to fuse, shift-click to release.

Outsider awaiting judgement

Adjust its — until it sounds like it lives here.

If it is not one of ours, no setting will fix it. Expel it.

hush residents

Data

Judgements are saved in this browser as you play, so a reload will not lose them. 0 stored in total.

Browser storage only. A study with real participants needs server-side storage.

Sonic Colony

A colony of one family of voices. Outsiders drift in. Some are of the family and merely out of place, and can be tuned until they belong. Some are a different kind of thing altogether, however closely they match, and cannot. Your job is to decide who belongs and who doesn't.

Headphones recommended.

session label (optional)

Colony (analysis)

How this works

Outsider awaiting judgement

Data

The colony resolves

Sonic Colony