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Infinite sea shanties on the web

Rob Beschizza
Jun 27, 2025
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The renewed interest in sea shanties has met its end in infinity. Parker Higgins created a sea shanty generator which plays without end in your browser—at least so long as you don't close the tab. It's not produced with AI, but with a more elegant weapon from a more civilized age: procedural generation.

With generative music, the success or failure o…

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