Conducting Between Roller Coasters

This article details the author's experience shipping a major update to PyTheory, a music theory library, while on vacation. The release includes thirty-six Hindustani ragas with accurate shruti tuning, advanced harmony features like negative harmony and reharmonization, cadence detection, and twelve-tone matrices. Additionally, the update brings a scalable fretboard diagram tool, a metronome with tempo training, and significant audio engine improvements including a stereo master bus, convolution reverb, and faster rendering. The author reflects on self-teaching music theory and making these features available across platforms like the browser playground and Ableton Live extension.