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Because JSON today is some sort of "lingua franca" of data exchange and there is a vast library of tools to handle JSON. If you have something that "plays sound" from JSON it becomes easy to imagine using existing JSON based tools to create music. Building a "graphical music editor" for example would be easy for most web devs.

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"Synthesizing Music from JSON" to me means something I could feed JSON into, and it would somehow transform it into music.

This is just using JSON as an encoding format. (And as a "legacy" one, too, it seems like its moved to JS.)

> it becomes easy to imagine using existing JSON based tools to create music.

No … it really doesn't? I am trained in both music and JSON, and I have no idea how that'd work.

Because you don't have "something that 'plays sound' from JSON" you have something that plays sound from application/sonant-x+json ; the interesting bits are in the "application/sonant-x" but your tooling only understands the "+json".

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