How it works

The economy

The grid is 1,000 pixels wide and 1,000 pixels tall — 1,000,000 pixels in total, each worth exactly £1 (£1 in the UK, $1 elsewhere). Pixels are sold in 10×10 blocks, so the smallest purchase is 100 pixels for £100. Each block position can only be claimed once, and the claim is recorded server-side so two people can never buy the same square.

The sounds

Nothing is downloaded. Every pixel's sound is synthesised in your browser from its coordinates, so all one million are distinct and instant:

• x — sets the pitch, climbing a six-octave musical ladder from the left edge to the right.
• y — sets the timbre: the waveform and how bright or muffled the filter is.
• position in block — shapes the envelope, from sharp blips to long soft pads.

Buy a block and you own its 100 sounds: play them as a phrase from the block panel and watch the sweep move across your tile.

Checkout

Purchases here are a demonstration. No money changes hands, no card details are collected, and confirming simply records the block as claimed. The email you give is stored as the purchase record only — it is never displayed anywhere on the site.