What is Oakfield (for)?

Oakfield was built in a little apartment in Atlanta. One of us does math for fun and has spent years tinkering with math and music. One of us wonders if mathematics isn't just akin to a D&D playbook, but is interested in discovery all the same. We're both total amateurs.

Oakfield is a modular synthesizer for mathematics. It's a mathematical simulation platform where you compose transformations like patching modules on a synth, where equations become something you play rather than just compute. It has functions. There are clear things you can do with it. But what it becomes? That's not something we get to decide alone.

Mathematics is strange territory. Some people enter it hunting for millennium prize solutions. Some find it's the only thing that quiets their mind. Others use it to make sound, or build something, or finally see what an equation means when it moves.

Maybe you're a mathematician. A basement physicist. Someone who dropped out because the institution couldn't contain what you were trying to think. Maybe you need the fidget spinner version of differential equations. Maybe you're an experimental musician. A student just trying to pass calc. A programmer looking for real-time calculations under the hood.

Or maybe you hate math. Maybe you failed algebra twice and swore you'd never look at an equation again. But something about patterns draws you in anyway. Or sound. Or the way things flow. Maybe you just want to play with something and see what happens.

We don't know who you are or what you're looking for. But if you work with systems, patterns, equations - if you need to see the math move to understand it - this might be for you.

Discovery doesn't announce itself. It happens in the margins, in the unexpected applications, in the questions we didn't know to ask.

Cooperation over hierarchy. Trust over control. The best systems emerge when people are free to explore them.

Build something. Break something. Show us what we missed.