What if you could step inside your favorite song and get a closer look at how music is made? That’s the idea behind this interactive experiment.

Explore layers of music all around you, using spatial audio to understand how a piece of music is composed. You can even turn layers on and off, letting you hear the individual pieces of a song in a new way.

The project is a collaboration with the popular podcast Song Exploder and some incredible artists across different genres — Phoenix, Perfume Genius, Natalia Lafourcade, Ibeyi, Alarm Will Sound, and Clipping.

Inside Music works on desktop, laptop, mobile. Checking it out is as simple as clicking a link on any recent device, no fancy hardware needed. But if you have VR gear, like Cardboard, Daydream, Gear, Oculus, or Vive, it works with that too.

We made the code open-source so that people who make music can create new experiments with their tracks.

Note: this experiment is no longer available online.

Natalia Lafourcade is a Grammy and Latin Grammy Award winner from Mexico City. The song “Tú Sí Sabes Quererme” is from her 2017 album Musas.

Phoenix is a Grammy Award winning band originally from Versailles, France. The song “Ti Amo” is from their critically acclaimed 2017 album Ti Amo.

Perfume Genius is the project of Seattle-based artist Mike Hadreas. The song “Slip Away” is from his 2017 album No Shape, one of the year's most acclaimed.

Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band that has been described by The New York Times as “one of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene." The piece “Roadrunner” by composer John Adams is from the 2017 album Splitting Adams recorded in partnership with the Meet the Composer podcast.

Clipping consists of William Hutson, a Ph.D. in Theater and Performance Studies, film-score composer Jonathan Snipes, and rapper Daveed Diggs, who won 2016 Tony and Grammy awards for his role as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the acclaimed Broadway musical Hamilton.

Ibeyi is a French-Cuban musical duo of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz that sings in both English and the West African language Yoruba. The song “Deathless” is from their forthcoming album Ash.