How to Reignite Suns: A Novel, Digital Way to Experience the Album

Abstract

This thesis presents Remixer Reloaded, a novel digital interface designed to let listeners interact with the author’s album at a granular level. Inspired by traditional digital audio workstations (DAWs) like Logic Pro, but reimagined for non-musicians, the tool enables users to explore individual audio and MIDI tracks from the album How to Reignite Suns through a web interface. Built with React and Tone.js, the application visualizes notes, waveforms, and timing grids, offering intuitive tools like zooming, track isolation, and note labeling. Unlike standard DAWs, the project emphasizes read-only exploration over editing, centering accessibility and music education. Through user testing, the tool was refined for clarity, performance, and engagement. This project merges the author’s identities as a musician and computer scientist to create an original, listener-centered musical experience.