• face eye-ring 600/822 (73%) -> 7 families, largest 30% archetype 7 of 9 alien forms won ZERO draws -> 12 appear, largest 22% plan stalk+insectoid = 91% -> 6 plans
• None of it was new capability. The face test opened on `body.eyes >= 4` and eyes tops out at exactly 4, so the eye count — the weakest, saturating signal — took first refusal from five better ones.
• THE HORIZON IS NOT EMPTY. backdrop.js — 1,300 lines of tested city/farm shape grammar — was replaced by an empty Object3D and drew nothing.
• THE SOUNDFONT SWAP DUCKS. It stalled: zone ids are font-qualified so two fonts can coexist, which means every zone of an incoming sampled font is a cache miss

Verified: verify.sh 13/13; font-rotation, starcruise and backdrop gates pass. -> v56.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year — the embeddable player, in someone else's page

27407e3 · colophon · source

• CALL IT ANALOG. The font key was `minimoog`; this is an analog-style subtractive voice, not a Model D, and naming it after a specific instrument claims something untrue.
• OPEN FULLY ZOOMED OUT. The first view has one job — show the whole journey — and the only way to be sure of that is to show the whole world.
• THE BASS WAS WALKING OVER THE MIX, and it is the widening's fault. Instruments that were never basses now sit in the bass chair, and the strip they inherited is written for a bass GUITAR: at lpf 5200 a bass…
• THE BASS WAS NOT ON THE BUSES AT ALL. "Never mud / bass stays centered" is right in principle and had been taken all the way to dry

Verified: verify.sh 13/13; all-sampled, segment-parity, strip-fuzz, font-rotation, explorer-ui and genre-viz pass. -> v54.

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

454e284 · colophon · source

• THE BLOCKER WAS THAT ZONE IDS WERE NOT FONT-QUALIFIED. Every font reused the same `ins_<instr>_<n>` id pointing at a different file
• THE GENTLE PART NEEDED NOTHING NEW. Set the font, re-target, and the flip queue walks the voices over one at a time — one flip per two bars, HOLD_BARS apart, identity dims first.
• ONE THING WAS GENUINELY MISSING — state.samplerLib was in no flip. It is the map forceSampled resolves a voice through when the voice carries no sampler of its own, and while every state was built under one soundfont it never mattered.
• Also fixed, my own from earlier this round: warmSetFor's memo key stringified `one.instruments` to "[object Object]", so the key was really just genre+seed and the warm set never invalidated when the…

Verified: browser/font-rotation.test.js gates it — and NOT with handle.rms(). That is an instantaneous meter: the quietest bar of four identical rides came out 0.0025, 0.1617, 0.0264 and 0.1047, so no…

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year — parked on the genre this change names

7764153 · colophon · source

• It now SPEAKS, through the platform's own synthesiser, with a "Speak it aloud" checkbox (default on, persisted) beside it.
• · the live-region path cleared and re-set inside ONE requestAnimationFrame. rAF runs before paint, so both mutations can coalesce into a single accessibility-tree update and an UNCHANGED snapshot gets…

Verified: browser/access-ui.test.js gates the whole contract with the synthesiser stubbed (headless Chromium has one that accepts speak() and makes no sound, which would pass vacuously): speaks once…

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

c8a7074 · colophon · source

• registered in SAMPLERS 108 -> 123 reached by some state 102 -> 122 (only synth_drum, an unpitched GM drum patch, goes unused) overall effective 62.1 -> 95.0 bass distinct / effective 21/10.4 -> 43/35.9 pad…
• Checked: 825,424 pitched sampler notes across the catalogue, every one resolving to a real zone; every registered zone file present on disk; matrix 274/274.
• THE WARM-AHEAD WAS FETCHING THE WHOLE LIBRARY, and counting the bed budget is how that surfaced. A state's foundSources carries the ENTIRE candidate sampler library — measured 629 zone rows, ~105 MB
• BEDS 3.44 per track (max 6), 1.31 MB BBC reach 38.5% FOUND 3.98 per track, 1.51 MB (beds+breaks+chops+hits+vox) INSTRUMENT 23 zones per track, 3.21 MB (what the song can voice) a track's fetched media: 4.72 MB

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

069f7ba · colophon · source

• The list is now "what can HOLD DOWN THE BOTTOM", not "what is sold as a bass": a tuba is the bass of a brass band, a bari sax the bass of a ska horn line, a cello and a bassoon are bass instruments with other…
• bass distinct / effective 21 / 10.4 -> 41 / 25.4 pad distinct / effective 45 / 21.9 -> 54 / 35.3 library reached 102 of 108 -> 106 of 108 overall effective 62.1 -> 79.1 top 10 share of voices 35.5% -> 25.1%
• seed 1 22 distinct / effective 8.1 -> 40 / 30.8 (was yamaha_grand_piano on 31% of genres) seed 7 20 distinct / effective 6.0 -> 39 / 29.4 (was picked_bass on 40%)
• At one seed it now reads: citypop pizzicato strings, jazz upright, dub contrabass, ambient harp, disco church organ, neoclassical felt piano

▶ Play it: Mirrorball Tonnage → Requiem Appendix → Neon Fiscal Year — the three genres this change names, as one path

bf33eb0 · colophon · source

• all-sampled / segment-parity / vocoder spelled found/<id>.mp3. The engine names fetched media found/<id>.64.mp3 (the bitrate rides in the name because found/ is immutable-by-name) and a synthText source has NO…
• STARCRUISE-BARCADENCE WAS REAL. The descent is built to arrive at SURFACE_POSE at essentially zero velocity (0.0036 units on the last transit frame), and the landed camera's establish ease then ran a…
• Also, from the instrument analysis: the ⓘ read General MIDI catalog indices out loud. GM numbers its variants — "Synth Bass 2", "Synth Strings 1"

Verified: verify.sh 13/13. -> v49.

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

95b800f · colophon · source

• THE IDENT TIER GETS ITS 45 MISSING BANKS. A genre whose form is dj/drop/vamp speaks a station ident over its own NameBank identity, but 45 of the 65 had no per-genre bank and fell back to GENERIC
• Two defects found while writing them. A band name may not also be a title or an album inside its own bank — the exact collision the ident code cut two frames over
• THE FLAT VOICE SHELVES ARE CAST, and the remaining drops turn out to be structural rather than a curation gap.
• THE PRECACHE HORIZON IS HALVED, 10 minutes -> 5 (HORIZON_MIN). Everything downstream is derived from it, so the fences, the moving horizon and resume are unchanged

Verified: gates/speech.test.js was red before this branch and is now green and doing more: its "no other genre grows a synthText source" law had been superseded by the IDENT tier (techno's form is…

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

075d2b1 · colophon · source

• "All the tracks are playing but only two show notes in the ⓘ." The live walk picks its section BY INDEX — secs[secIdx]; the name is only a label
• "crunch guitar says it is missing." Two defects, one of them not the reported one. The ring route kicked a sampler zone's decode on the first bar that SOUNDED it, so the transit form's metal solo
• The opening loop spawns on city pop instead of on the geometric middle of the chart, and climbs: candidates for each vertex must be at least as danceable as the spawn, the pick maximizes ENERGY less an…
• the pure-node starcruise probes needed a package-type MARKER, not a package-type decision: three "type": "module" files in app/, vendor/simplex-noise/ and vendor/three/, matching the one vendor/espeak-ng/…

Verified: verify.sh 13/13. → v46.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Nichrome Panic — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

9fed970 · colophon · source

• FIRST, the radius was circular in a space that is not. drawMap fits each axis to the viewport independently (X = x*width/WORLD_W, Y = y*height/WORLD_H) and the world is ~10x taller than wide, so one world unit…
• SECOND, and this is what the gate caught: the previous commit claimed loop duration was unaffected because paceSpeed scales with the perimeter.
• So the shape changed instead of the size. The triangle now uses its two LOWER vertices rather than the top one, because the dropped vertex pointed straight up — the expensive direction.
• Screen legs 373/695/389 px against a 67px halo — a 239px clear gap where the nearest pair used to overlap. Perimeter 4432, under the 4523 that already walked cleanly.

Verified: verify.sh 13/13; explorer-ui, share-url, full-boot, feed-links, genre-viz pass.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

c8b889b · colophon · source

• The multiplier and the result differ because the spread saturates — the two outer points snap to the nearest genre, so past a point a bigger radius just picks a different neighbour.
• Loop DURATION is unchanged, which is the reason this is safe to do: paceSpeed scales with the perimeter and loopDuration does not, so the traveler moves faster in world units and crosses more genres in the…
• The loop now opens on standbylightdrive and silkmist rather than lasertemple and doomdrone.

Verified: verify.sh 13/13; explorer-ui, share-url, full-boot and feed-links all pass.

▶ Play it: Subduction Hymnal → Diode Vigil → Collimated Chapel — the three genres this change names, as one path

e642db2 · colophon · source

• Dead path citations across the tree: 48 -> 17. The four that survive in source are deliberate: two documented dead pointers, a HEAD-compatibility fallback that must name the old path to work, and one…
• WHAT I DID NOT DO. Roughly a hundred comments in app/ and engine/ narrate the past — "the live granular bed used to mint ~28 buffers", "on touchdown the landed camera used to SNAP".
• Removed instead: five dated attributions in test/ that narrate a reorg rather than explain a mechanism, and a stray jungle-s7.state.json at the repo root.
• The three starcruise pure-node probes are renamed .mjs and given a createRequire shim, which fixes the half-converted CJS/ESM mixing inside them.

Verified: verify.sh 13/13.

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — parked on the genre this change names

ccbf8f0 · colophon · source

• CLAUDE.md and ARCHITECTURE.md now document engine/genres-data.js and engine/registry-data.js, which held the entire genre catalogue and the sample registries while being mentioned nowhere.
• Descriptions ARE generated, and both files now say hand-editing them is forbidden. That is the failure that rotted genre-specs the first time.
• ARCHITECTURE's load order was wrong in content as well as in paths: it omitted two engine scripts and put an async counter inside the ordered chain.
• FIXED IN THE LEDGER — SOURCES.md pointed at engine/faust/voices/sf2.js. There is no such file — it is build/sf2.js, and the wrong path was introduced by this session's own doc pass, in the one file whose rows are legally…

Verified: verify.sh 13/13.

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

2afdfaf · colophon · source

• THE CYCLE. app/ carried two import cycles that worked only because ESM live-bindings resolve at call time.
• THREE SPLITS. starcruise.js 2,297 -> bridge/scene/camera/probes; starmap.js 910 -> viewport/layout/draw/gestures/viz-zoom behind an unchanged import surface
• THE PAGES. Six HTML files carried duplicated head and inline style; the CSS is extracted and the social head is consistent and gated.
• FIVE REGRESSIONS the sweep caught and fixed, each broken-then-green: three test/unit gates and one tools/build script had require paths one level off after the move, which no import checker sees because they…

Verified: verify.sh 13/13. diagonal dominant: 274/274. meter green. Structure is all any of that proves; the ears are still owed.

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

0a76d1b · colophon · source

• The visible symptom was a wall of 404s for found/<id>.mp3 — the pre-diet filenames, requested by the stale shell, against a server that now holds only found/<id>.64.mp3.
• This is what the comment on VERSION has always said to do.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

61a6994 · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Diaphragm Muster → Titration Rapture → Polyrhythm Senate — the three genres this change names, as one path

d09417e · colophon · source

• The found layer was diluted and rare. Bed/narration pools now expand wider and cap at 12 (break/chops deliberately untouched
• The hits coin was the real rarity: 70% of tracks carried no one-shot layer at all. Lifting each genre's authored probability through p -> 1-(1-p)^5 preserves the endpoints and the per-genre ordering while…
• The speech idents kept their tier but lost two of five forms. Read as text across all 2480 realized lines, the split was total: three forms are station idiom and score 100% plausible-or-filler
• The 274 descriptions are repaired in the generator as value-keyed tables, never per-genre overrides. 45% of them said "a light shuffle" because one swing bucket spanned .02-.08

▶ Play it: Milk Crate Scripture → Diaphragm Muster — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

dc447ca · colophon · source

• · WHERE THINGS STAND — what is done, what is left, and the fact that SEVEN COMMITS ARE UNDEPLOYED (stellate.app is running 76c905e) · the commit-by-commit ledger of what landed and what each one was · the new…
• And FOUR TRAPS, written down because every one of them looked like a confident result and was wrong: the homoglyph label match, the guessed WORLD_W projection, calling a correct intro a frozen viz and telling…
• Stage headers now say DONE where they are done, so nobody redoes Stage C. Stage F carries its own known-wrong list, since tonight moved the ground under it: CLAUDE.md still describes a 996 KB kernel with an…

Verified: verify.sh 13/13, doc-counts PASS.

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

9b72aee · colophon · source

• That fixes the tic AND the deeper problem underneath it. The old blurbs were hand-written beside live data and drifted the way that always drifts
• em-dash punchlines 234 -> 0 lower-case openers 241 -> 0 length median 173 -> 114, max 378 -> 171 card-lie count 0 -> 0, now by construction
• A machine four at 124-140. Acid bass under an organ, with a pluck lead.
• "A breakbeat at 96-144" card:amen/break on 6 genres. checkCardClaims reads "breakbeat" as the SAMPLED amen; these kits are synthesized and carry no break role.

▶ Play it: Congregation Furnace → Titration Rapture → Polyrhythm Senate — the three genres this change names, as one path

85352d0 · colophon · source

• Proved rather than eyeballed: GENRES is byte-identical to HEAD ignoring case, and zero infos differ beyond capitalisation.
• gospel "hand-clap church gospel ~92bpm — Hammond organ and gospel piano, a massed choir…" — the em-dash is STRUCTURAL, introducing the instrumentation.
• Telling a poetic punchline from a structural separator is a judgement per string, not a pattern, and these are 274 user-visible strings.
• There is also a gate coupling worth stating: musicality's checkCardClaims parses `info` for instrument nouns, so rewriting prose can create or hide card-lies.

Verified: verify.sh otherwise green, card-lie 0, specs round-trip PASS.

▶ Play it: Rapture Logistics → Congregation Furnace → Polyrhythm Senate — the three genres this change names, as one path

277d89e · colophon · source

• WHAT THE LANES DO. Replayed barVoiceEvents' exact windowing in node — no browser, no timing, no flake
• verse 2 {pad:16, bass:4, drums:59, sfx:1} — no melody events at all bridge {pad:16, bass:4, melody:10} — no drum events at all
• gospel's bridge genuinely drops the kit and verse 2 genuinely has no lead line. The viz drawing melody:0 and drums:0 there is the truth, not a bug.
• I ALSO COULD NOT REPRODUCE "doesn't update at all", and I twice mistook a too-short sample for a freeze: 24 samples over 19s of a 92bpm chordEvery-8 track is about three chord bars, so seeing two distinct…

Verified: verify.sh 13/13, comment-only proof clean.

▶ Play it: Rapture Logistics — parked on the genre this change names

465d377 · colophon · source

• So the derived tier is picked by a STRUCTURAL property rather than by me choosing forty-one names out of a hat. Genres whose FORM is a mix — dj, drop, vamp, the ones built to be beat-matched and talked over
• genres with speech 58 -> 99 of 274 bespoke cast 12 (unchanged; a bespoke voice always beats an ident) derived idents 41 (dj 20, drop 12, vamp 9)
• The VOICE is hashed from the genre name, not the track seed, so every station sounds like a different station and the same genre always gets the same announcer: house is a fast m2, jungle a mid m1, disco an f3.
• A REAL BUG CAUGHT ON THE WAY, and the reason the samples are worth printing: the first cut used `>>`, which is a SIGNED 32-bit shift, so any hash above 2^31 went negative and dragged the modulo with it.

Verified: determinism identical on repeat, no out-of-range voice anywhere, and house and jungle both synthesize live in a real browser with zero console errors.

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede → Congregation Furnace → Stationary Weather — the three genres this change names, as one path

422eb07 · colophon · source

• Because it is all espeak, the engine can simply say it. A registry entry with synthText is synthesized by engine/speech.js at play time — what the transit PA already did.
• genres emitting live speech 12 -> 58 distinct live ids in play 1 -> 221
• THE BUG THAT MADE IT A NO-OP AT FIRST. Converting the registry changed nothing: still 12 genres, still one id.
• WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT CONVERTED — saytransit's station voices are not plain espeak. They are a three-voice harmonized robot choir — root, a fifth above, an octave below, rubberband-shifted and mixed time-aligned.

Verified: rather than assumed: determinism holds (same seed twice, identical), jungle gains nothing, and sp_paleo_rex — a CONVERTED id, not the organ

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede → Food Court Eternity → Amen Monolith — the three genres this change names, as one path

700d9f9 · colophon · source

• `genre-tool.js export <genre> | --all` is the direction that was missing: it reads the LIVE anchor and emits the spec that would produce it.
• 274 specs, one per genre, uniform shape: name label info pos anchor mind 274 targets 274 perc 52 (only genres with a perc style)
• Three of those keys are NEW, and they are what closes the authorability gap the plan measured — the kernel reads 289 anchor paths, specs could express 184: mind the derived theory/pipes/rhythm axes, whose only…
• Four keys are dropped because nothing reads them: clips (GENRE_CLIPS is gone), materials, invented, damp. genre-specs/invented/ is flattened

Verified: genre-specs.test.js is what stops the rot returning: coverage, no orphans, required keys, no retired keys, trailing newline, and the one that matters

▶ Play it: Perforated Afterlife → Smoke Arithmetic → Titration Rapture — the three genres this change names, as one path

712cceb · colophon · source

• THE CAUSE. drawMap fits each axis to the viewport INDEPENDENTLY, so the world's own aspect is invisible in the render -- only the distribution in normalized space matters.
• It was never an area problem. At default zoom the rendered world is 12.5M px² and 400 labels want 2.7M of it.
• THE FACTOR I GOT WRONG FIRST, and it is the whole thing: drawMap grows type with zoom, fs = min(3, max(1, k^0.85)), so at the default k=2.8 the font is 2.4x, not 1x.
• tools/relayout-map.js relaxes label RECTANGLES until none overlap, each star on a weak spring to where it started, boxes inflated sqrt(400/274) so genres that do not exist yet still get a name.

Verified: verify.sh 12/12, matrix 274/274, explorer-ui PASS (was FAIL on the separation floor), pos-coverage 274/274, full-boot healthy.

▶ Play it: Non Euclidean Court → Teatime Anomaly → Kettle Eschaton — the three genres this change names, as one path

43ffe4d · colophon · source

• rsync's plain --delete only removes receiver files that are absent from the SOURCE. It deliberately PROTECTS anything matching an --exclude, on the theory that you may be excluding files you want left alone on…
• 154 engine/faust/node_modules the @grame cut that did not take 134 found/samples/*/zones.json extractor output nothing fetches ~600 tools/node_modules better-sqlite3, semver, tar-fs and friends -- build-time…
• Nothing outside those buckets is touched. MEDIA_MANIFEST appears in the deletion list and is irrelevant: it is not in the source tree, so plain --delete already removed it on every deploy, and the very next…
• This is the same failure shape as the found/midi leak that had to be scrubbed from the droplet by hand: an exclusion that everyone believed was removing something when it was only declining to send it.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

76c905e · colophon · source

• prove-browser.js is the single CommonJS script in that directory, so it becomes prove-browser.cjs (README and its own header updated). prove.js was already ESM and needed nothing.
• This closes a real hole rather than a cosmetic one: the artifact's DETERMINISM LAW -- same text twice must give byte-identical PCM from a fresh worker per call -- was documented in engine/speech.js and never…
• Browser path is untouched -- package.json type affects node resolution only, and the browser loads the glue by URL.
• speech.test: 5/5 ALL PASS, up from 4/5.

Verified: speech.test.js has been failing synth_determinism with "Cannot use 'import.meta' outside a module" -- and because tools/ship.sh gates on that test under `set -e`, the project's one deploy…

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

5f6aa3b · colophon · source

• engine/genre-kernel.js 193 KB -> 180 KB, 2,798 -> 2,554 lines tools/kernel-cli.js 260 lines
• The kernel now contains zero require("fs"), zero require("child_process") and zero execFileSync -- checked, not assumed.
• The extraction was mechanical but not blind: the block was brace-matched rather than sliced at a guessed line (the first attempt was off by one and its assertion caught it before anything was written), and its…
• Every documented invocation was repointed, since `node engine/genre-kernel.js track ...` now silently does nothing: CLAUDE.md, README.md, docs/SETUP.md, docs/GENRE-SPACE.md, three fetch recipes…

Verified: verify.sh 12/12, matrix --no-cache 274/274 diagonal dominant, kerneldata byte-identical, boot-smoke 16/16, full-boot healthy in a real browser, and `kernel-cli.js anchors` + `track jungle…

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — parked on the genre this change names

e62dada · colophon · source

• Twelve genres speak now, and the text is not invented for them: each one already carried the vocabulary in its own card.
• transitwave f3 165 the arrivals PA airtrafficdrone m3 190 flight levels and runway assignments towncrier m1 120 OYEZ, slow and grave auctioncore m2 260 the chant, and it is FAST dmvstep f2 150 now serving…
• The per-speaker variant/pitch/speed is the point: one voice at twelve texts would be one narrator in twelve hats.
• Every law the transit PA established is preserved, because they are what make this safe: text derives purely from (seed, genre) through NameBank, so ZERO rng draws on the resolve stream

Verified: not assumed: determinism (same seed twice, identical), jungle gains nothing, a 20% towncrier blend stays silent, and three of the new voices -- including the croak -- synthesize live in a…

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture → Oyez Oblivion → Heated Dry Eternity — the three genres this change names, as one path

4807f98 · colophon · source

• engine/genres-data.js 648 KB the 274 anchors engine/registry-data.js 131 KB SOURCES / SOURCE_POOLS / SAMPLES / VOXBANK / SAMPLERS / PERCBANK
• THE DATA MOVED AS SOURCE TEXT, NOT AS JSON. The obvious implementation is to load the kernel and JSON.stringify each object, and that is the one that loses: round-tripping normalizes -0 to 0, drops undefined…
• Classic scripts, not JSON-over-fetch, because app/access.js and app/starmap.js read the kernel synchronously at module top level -- the data has to exist the moment genre-kernel.js runs.
• Everything that reached into the kernel by path was repointed, not left to fail quietly later: genre-tool.js (including TERM.genres, whose terminator was the kernel section that used to follow the literal and…

Verified: rather than assumed, at every layer: kerneldata GENRES + 4 registries byte-identical vs HEAD, same order, 5 resolved tracks identical (the only reach into the module-private VOXBANK and…

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

8508e00 · colophon · source

• The gate compares the WORKING TREE against HEAD, the way meter.test.js's head_byte_identity already does, so it is a no-op green today, the proof during the split, and self-healing on commit afterwards -- an…
• genre_order Object.keys(GENRES) drives matrix row order and the star layout. A pure reordering is invisible to a sorted hash and catastrophic downstream, so the order is compared as an ordered array and the…
• Wired into verify.sh as "kerneldata": 12/12 PASS.
• The split itself is the next commit. Nothing has moved yet.

Verified: it actually fails, rather than assuming: a one-digit cutoff change (1700 -> 1701, buried 547 KB into GENRES) is caught twice independently -- by the byte hash, which points straight at the…

▶ Play it: Rapture Logistics — parked on the genre this change names

bebf85b · colophon · source

• Both go in the COMP pool, not the lead. Each card names its own hook -- a massed choir for gospel, a lyrical alto sax for yachtrock -- and those stay where they are
• gospel + bright_yamaha_grand (not felt/upright: gospel piano is percussive and forward, and it comps against the Hammond) yachtrock + clean_guitar (the card's own words)
• Capability, drawn: over 12 seeds the gospel comp resolves church_organ / rock_organ / strings / bright_yamaha_grand and yachtrock's rhodes_ep / electric_piano / strings / clean_guitar, each new instrument…
• This is a kernel change and therefore a matrix change, so it was gated as one rather than assumed: matrix --no-cache still prints diagonal dominant 274/274, and no column moved off its own row.

Verified: verify.sh 11/11, matrix --no-cache 274/274, musicality ALL GREEN (card-lie count 3 -> 0), meter byte-identity green.

▶ Play it: Rapture Logistics → Isobar Regatta — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

2a69608 · colophon · source

• musicality card-lie: the catalog reported 3 over-promises. One was the checker's fault. chamber's card says "NO piano and NO drums", and checkCardClaims scanned for instrument nouns with no notion of negation…
• Audited rather than assumed: across all 274 cards that strip suppresses exactly one claim, chamber's piano. No other genre's warnings move.
• starcruise-nav 1A/1C hardcoded 33 clusters against a clusterer that emits 34, so a healthy galaxy reported as a failure.
• STILL RED, and deliberately left for a human: card-lie is now 2, not 0. gospel's card promises "gospel piano" and yachtrock's promises "clean electric guitar", and neither pool contains the instrument -…

Verified: verify.sh 11/11, matrix --no-cache 274/274 diagonal dominant, starcruise-nav ALL PASS.

▶ Play it: Rapture Logistics → Isobar Regatta — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

d52b8ed · colophon · source

• Decision: keep the deploy, drop the promise. So this rewrites the policy header to say what actually happens -- the fetched media is served from the public web -- and rewrites the per-item promises into…
• What is deliberately NOT removed: the licence facts. Every ⚠, every "no licence chain", every NC/ND flag stays exactly where it was, and the header now says plainly that the terms still bind, that serving…
• Also added: a note for anyone forking, since the risk is a decision the repo owner made and does not travel with the code -- with a pointer at the rsync filter that is where a stricter policy would be enforced.
• One "never redistributed" survives, at the MIDI trove, because it is true: found/midi/ is excluded from the rsync and the corpus lives off-repo on the external drive.

Verified: doc-counts PASS.

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

a649959 · colophon · source

• Landed, both rsync filters -- no app code moves. Measured with --dry-run --stats, old filters vs new: 526.18 MB / 9,591 files -> 497.88 MB / 9,303.
• zones.json + _gm-extract-summary.json: 134 files, 544 KB of extractor output that nothing fetches. The browser reads zone geometry from K.SAMPLERS, and faust/sf2.js says so outright.
• @grame narrowed 28 MB -> 194 KB. The web needs exactly one file of that tree, dist/esm/index.js, from which live.js / stream-worker.js / stem-worker.js import FaustWasmInstantiator and FaustMonoDspGenerator to…
• dx7-presets.json. The 671 KB in the plan is the raw size; the live server sends it gzipped at 74.7 KB.

Verified: verify.sh 11/11; deploy script syntax-checked and its filters dry-run verified to ship exactly dist/esm/index.js and no zones.json.

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

b96a25b · colophon · source

• Also in scope, all named in the plan: glyphs.js's 15-line ARCHAEOLOGY block; four test files still heading themselves "// faust/..." from before they moved into test/
• Deliberately kept: author metadata, the visible credits and the MIT line -- that is attribution, not narration. Citations of docs that still exist (TIMING-AUDIT, ENGINE-AUDIT)
• The tool needed fixing first. Its walker knew about strings but not regex literals, so a literal like /['"]/ flipped it into "inside a string" and it silently stopped stripping comments for the rest of the…
• Two failures predate this and are untouched, confirmed identical against a stashed clean tree: musicality.test's card-lie count (3 genre cards promise an instrument their recipe cannot realize) and…

Verified: comment-only.js is the tool for this pass: it strips comments and whitespace from both revisions and diffs what is left, so "I only edited comments" is checkable instead of merely claimed.

▶ Play it: Locust Arithmetic — parked on the genre this change names

4e0f650 · colophon · source

• engine/checks/ (5 files, 899 lines) — "zero CI reach". WRONG.
• tools/make-mix-page.js — "zero references". WRONG. genre-kernel.js:8942 and :8978 execFileSync it from the playlist and journey CLIs.
• tools/fetch-found-voice.sh — "dead". It is the committed recipe SOURCES.md cites as the provenance for the voice tier, which is the whole media policy: we ship the recipe, not the media.
• What was genuinely unreferenced, and is now gone (1,431 lines): seven probe-*.js with no citation anywhere, and the four starcruise screenshot scripts, which produce PNGs and assert nothing.

Verified: probe-reverb.js and friends — "unreferenced one-offs". Five .dsp source files and engine/faust/VOICES.md cite them by name as the tuning instruments for those DSPs.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year — the embeddable player, in someone else's page

0d0fea6 · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

38286bc · colophon · source

• HOSTING.md said this was impossible, because loop points are absolute sample indices and 552 of the 614 zones loop.
• len — the decoded sample count, so a padded buffer can be spotted at all. sr — the zone FILE's rate.
• Two ordering bugs in the tool, found by review: it deleted each sampler's WAVs as that sampler finished but spliced the metadata once at the very end, so an interrupt left media gone with nothing describing…
• : the rename lives inside genre-kernel.js, which rides stale-while-revalidate, so without a bump a returning listener's first load after deploy would serve the WAV-era kernel and 404 every zone.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

f9ffe5d · colophon · source

• ROADMAP.md was a 2026-07-11 plan with 38 items already marked done, referencing four docs that were never written, and opening with a ground-truth block asserting 249 anchors while scolding other docs for…
• STARCRUISE-LIBS.md was an adoption plan for five libraries; two shipped and are recorded in vendor/*/VERSION.txt and NOTICE, and the other three never existed in this tree.
• Their citations are fixed rather than orphaned: ARCHITECTURE.md drops the KERNEL-MAP pointer, planet.js loses it from a code comment, TODO stops calling ROADMAP the place plans graduate to.
• STARCRUISE.md said "Status: SCAFFOLD (this commit)" and called five modules stubs rendering a placeholder scene. They are ~7,300 lines.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

bd94b1e · colophon · source

• It also contradicted the repo's headline rule in public — source is committed, audio is derived and gitignored
• The .gitignore comment that kept them tracked cited "playlist/ and mix/"; mix/ has not existed for some time.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

695c4cf · colophon · source

• Adding it surfaced a latent race. The wait loop sized itself with `jobs -rp | wc -l`, which lists only jobs still RUNNING, so any suite finishing before the count was taken went unrecorded: the loop exited…
• Also adds doc-counts.test.js: the anchor count has been wrong in the docs three times over and drifts silently because nothing reads it.
• And corrects the header, which advertised four suites while the body forked ten, and pointed at scratch/.verify-cache when the cache is under engine/scratch/.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

f6ebdd2 · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

46f5ca3 · colophon · source

• Removes the submodule, .gitmodules and .mcp.json, and rewrites the places that explained them: CLAUDE.md loses the catalog section, README/SETUP lose the submodule init line, CONTRIBUTING loses the…
• The generator-verifier-feedback-loop idea stays — it is the thing this repo demonstrates, and it no longer needs a footnote pointing somewhere else.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

72b60eb · colophon · source

• Renaming to .js fixes it with no server config: .js is mapped to text/javascript on every host, so this cannot regress on a reinstall, a new box, or the second site served off this same tree.
• This is the same failure the probe harness hit before it learned .mjs, which is the one place .mjs still needs to work: the harness serves the tree itself.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

63cdc83 · colophon · source

• The big territory watermarks on the star map now wear the same alien alphabet as the genre labels. Drawn only -- the __REGIONS debug hook still emits real names, because the headless gates match on them.
• .ab-foot wore a footer's top border after moving to the top of the About card; it gets a header's bottom rule instead.
• security.txt contact -> paul.ford@aboard.com.

▶ Play it: Unblinking Interval → Barometric Stampede → Food Court Eternity — a three-star constellation to watch the map work

392746c · colophon · source

• Each pair is pushed apart along its own axis with the midpoint held -- the smallest move that clears the floor, and the one that least disturbs either star's relationship to everything else.
• Min pairwise is now 93.1 (flamenco/hexagonstampede) and the warning is gone.

▶ Play it: Bulrush Cyclotron → Benzene Cavalry → Clave Reactor — the three genres this change names, as one path

2e75c5c · colophon · source

• The PWA could not boot offline. sw.js passes cross-origin through and never caches it, so the service worker could hold the entire app and all its media and the instrument still would not start without a live…
• The page is COEP require-corp and neither host sends Cross-Origin-Resource- Policy, which is what Safari was reporting -- and it means Orbitron and VT323 were very likely not rendering in production at all.
• And a third party saw a request from every visitor, which undercuts the "no accounts, no cookies, no data" posture the security.txt advertises.
• vendor/preact, vendor/htm and vendor/fonts follow the pattern the other five vendored libraries already use: exact version, upstream LICENSE, a VERSION.txt saying why.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year — the embeddable player, in someone else's page

de6c9de · colophon · source

• Two changes. The delete becomes an amplitude ramp: full out to t=0.1, linear to silence by 0.5, events under a small floor dropped rather than scheduled as inaudible voices.
• And a bug the cliff was hiding: genreMeta.t is the raw blend position, not distance from the nearest anchor, so testing t alone killed the layer across the entire second half of every crossfade -- including…
• FOUND_FADE_T is a named constant because the width is an ears question; no gate can settle it.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — parked on the genre this change names

b66fe5a · colophon · source

• It now reads the same set live.js schedules from -- sch.found srcIds union the sampler zone srcIds -- via buildSchedule, and resolves them through the player's own local resolver rather than s.url, which is…
• Deliberately NOT keyed off state.foundSources: the resolved state declares the whole crate, not the draw set, which would pull ~625 files / 100MB per genre.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

27e62ad · colophon · source

• localCacheFor becomes a convention resolver: url -> SOURCES id -> found/<id>.mp3, with byUrl kept only as an override for names that don't follow it.

Verified: no-remote-sources.test.js makes it permanent: every source must resolve to a found/ path that exists on disk, and the decoder must contain no remote path.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

22608f8 · colophon · source

• He was not wrong, and the two complaints are one cause. FIRST, the reassuring half, measured: switching fonts does NOT change the music.
• SECOND, the real defect: LEVEL. With v39's fix finally delivering pitch to the FM voices, dx7 measured ~5 dB hotter than the sampled default on the genres that lean on it (live master RMS: fluidr3 -16.4…
• The trim initially did NOTHING because synth voices bake their gain into extGainPerAmp at unit-creation time, before this post-resolution pass runs; scaling lvl alone is a no-op for them.
• minimoog is left at 1.0, a DELIBERATE no-op: its gain does not flow through extGainPerAmp either, and matching it needs the kernel's levelMul mechanism.

Verified: verify.sh, segment-parity 10/10 byte-equal, engine.test (incl. both v39 dx7 gates), meter, matrix 274/274.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Highway Heat Death → Neon Fiscal Year — the three genres this change names, as one path

a9a2daf · colophon · source

• Fix: derive the param root from the UI TREE, not the declared name (render-core paramRoot, used by press/stream-worker/stem-worker/stem-parity).
• Consequences honestly handled: yesterday's DX7_MAKEUP=2.0 / OUT_CEIL=1.8 was fitted against SILENT voices and is void (with pitch landing, it pressed 12dB hot)
• Two new gates in engine.test, both verified to FAIL against the old code: param_root_addressable (structural
• MIDI IS BACK (Paul: "I want midi back"). The ⤓ midi button returns to the ⚙ modal — MIDI only; the wav/mp3 machinery stays on legacy-download-video.

Verified: live, dominant peak sampled 1Hz for 20s: dx7 was 468/468/468 stuck at -47..-56dB; now 11 distinct pitches, longest stuck run 3, -23..-30dB.

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

a57a0f9 · colophon · source

• The trap, written down because it cost two minutes of dead analytics today: -base-path moves the COLLECTION endpoint as well, so the beacon proxy must target /stats/count.
• Also corrects the password-reset invocation (db update user, not db update-user) and notes the localhost-only tunnel shim as the fallback.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

9d20ac0 · colophon · source

• SWING — deliberately NOT raised, with evidence. In every jazz genre the RIDE plays only on the beat, so the knob cannot reach the instrument whose swing defines the music
• VOICE REPEAT GOVERNOR (Paul: "no vocal or textural sample should repeat more than five times in 64 bars... speech phrases looping ad nauseum").
• KICK -20% (Paul: "pretty enormous — it can grate"), one named constant after the existing hot-kit balance so it composes rather than fights.
• MASTER BRICKWALL — the output exceeded full scale in 14.3% of loud 100ms windows (the limiter was a 2ms-attack compressor). A lookahead brickwall with a sliding minimum takes that to 0.00% with octave bands within +/-0.5dB

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede → Smoke Arithmetic → Unblinking Interval — the three genres this change names, as one path

1165cad · colophon · source

• 1. THE SEAM COIN-FLIP (live only, ~1/4 of downbeats). makeWalk regenerates the collapsed section every chord bar with a DIFFERENT seed, and mapEvents binned events by their POST-humanize beat
• 2. THE DRY CROSSFADE.
• 3. NOTES SCHEDULED IN THE PAST. 92.6% of notes ride the native lane, drained on a 30ms timer with ZERO lookahead while visible (the hidden-tab path already used 0.6s and was strictly more accurate).
• 4. clickmon tapped before makeup with a fixed threshold and read 0 clicks through a measured full-scale dropout. Moved to the limiter output — a sensor that lies is worse than no sensor.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Highway Heat Death — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

5436455 · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Mother Culture Vigil → Camshaft Litany — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

b4eeb48 · colophon · source

• Proven: opacity 1 -> 0.89 -> 0.69 -> 0.48 -> 0.25 -> 0 across 1.4s, monotonic, with the frozen frame carrying real content throughout. demo-layer / bg-cart / explorer gates PASS.

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — a long-form genre — put the phone in your pocket and it keeps playing

1f8469e · colophon · source

Verified: segment-parity 10/10 byte-equal, engine, blend-arrival all PASS.

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — the genre that is mostly drums, so the kit has nowhere to hide

3a59fee · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

7f02f14 · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — parked on the genre this change names

63bdd25 · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — a long-form genre — put the phone in your pocket and it keeps playing

05f2f2b · colophon · source

Verified: verify.sh green (now incl. social-meta), meter byte-identity green, segment parity 10/10 byte-equal (press == live restored), live/blend/wavout/ access/boot/full-boot/embed-audio/feed-links…

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — parked on the genre this change names

c9bb15b · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Smoke Arithmetic → Dial Tone Prophet → Rail Replacement Rapture — the three genres this change names, as one path

59f18c7 · colophon · source

Verified: wall: verify.sh, meter (head gate green), theory-tables, segment-parity, live, blend-arrival, wavout, access 12/12, boot-smoke 13/13, full-boot, bg-cart, demo-layer all PASS

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Crossroads Paperwork → Abort Retry Fail — the three genres this change names, as one path

fc5183f · colophon · source

• Post-planet static: reproduced headlessly (ring underrun quanta 609-4933 after a cruise, 0 in control), mechanism = main-thread stalls breaching the 3s ring runway (entry shader compile, per-frame sky uploads…
• Blind-user pass: "playing" narration (the log no longer sticks on "loading engine…"), journey ARRIVAL announcements ("Now crossing into Porchlight Overdrive."
• Engine audit: docs/ENGINE-AUDIT-2026-07.md — 37 adversarially-verified findings tiered for fixing (ring leaks, snare-law 40% build cost, dead strum pipe, PERC meter latency, per-sample strip = 87% of sampler…

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

c3bf3d0 · colophon · source

• ⓘ visibility wave: rubato joins the feel radar, an always-on meter badge (the 8-cell fold erased the waltz), harmony provenance (reharm + which tables) in the mind line.
• Download + laserdisc-video paths EXCISED (everything preserved on branch legacy-download-video): export/journey/video-layer + tools + docs + the J/H gate rewrite; background chip is now off <-> demoscene.

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

3dce7b9 · colophon · source

• The sweep (39 verified review findings): NODE_PATH=/home/ford/... gone from all 46 files (gates run plain after npm install && npm run setup:browser); relative requires in lesson/genome-diff

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

1cef5c7 · colophon · source

• tools/font-coverage.js (+ test/font-coverage.test.js gate) IS that comparator: A. instrFamily over all 108 SAMPLERS ids vs a rule table B. both synth fonts resolve every id to a complete voice
• instrFamily: "nylon_STRING_guitar" matched the string rule before pluck ever ran (guitars -> slow juno pad voice), /bass/ ate "bassoon", /reed/ ate "reed_organ", bright_yamaha_grand fell to generic lead.
• minimoog voicing, audit-measured at Paul's URL (live per-voice audit, headless): juno60's pad swell on a MELODY role never opened before short notes ended (lead rms .004 vs fluidr3 .021
• state-engine mapEvents HARD-CLAMPED note freq to the module's freqMax — every note above the compiled range played AT the ceiling (the dx7 freq slider tops at 1000Hz = MIDI ~83, a register where FM operator…

Verified: font-coverage structural audit clean, matrix 274/274, verify.sh PASS, engine/theory/pipes ALL PASS, wavout live gate PASS.

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

07239ce · colophon · source

• share.js: the path's own length sets the BASE time — BASE_SPW = 1.2s per world-unit, tuned so the seeded default triangle (~1500wu) keeps its historical ~30 minutes at x1
• panels.js: the slider is 8 log decades, x1 detent at center; readout "x12 · 6.4 hr"; label tooltip states the path's own time at x1.
• starmap.js: dragging a waypoint floats a live tooltip — "loop ≈ 32 min" (recomputed as the drag stretches the perimeter), plus "x100 -> 2.2 days" when the dial is off x1.
• access.js: the a11y twin dials the same multiple with a spoken aria-valuetext (multiple, effective time, and the path's own time).

Verified: share-url-run 13/13, access-ui-run 12/12, full-boot green. explorer-ui-test's H section (background alternation) fails IDENTICALLY at the pre-session baseline 081a256

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

dbd3021 · colophon · source

• rips relocated to /mnt/sources/relocated/stellate-midi-corpus/rips/; fetch-midi-trove.sh defaults there (arg overrides), CLAUDE.md/SOURCES.md/ midi-mine.test paths updated; SOURCES.md records the incident
• deploy-stellate.sh: found/midi/ excluded from BOTH the rsync and the manifest find — the belt if a fetch ever lands there again
• the already-deployed copy still needs the manual droplet scrub (rm -rf /srv/stellate/found/midi) — remote deletion left to Paul

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

51bcdc7 · colophon · source

• The star-cruise forces the demo layer up via bgWant(), but the only cart rotator (bgFlip) gated on bgMode===1 — in the aliens view the same cart wrapped every planet forever.
• Mode 2 (demos-only) had NO rotator at all — same cart forever on the 2D map too (both the bgFlip gate and the 1s clock's caller gate excluded it).

Verified: test/bg-cart-run.js (mode-2 idle rotation via ?bgAltMs, the cruise stand-down guard, zero page errors). demo-layer-test + full-boot-run green.

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

8db570b · colophon · source

• Rendered stepFrac: folk .35 jazz .34 (corpus .48/.44), guitar .24 classical .24 (corpus .39/.45 — their remaining steps live inside fast runs no subdivision can host; the scale-aware walk is the noted v3).
• guitarweave wired into bossanova (the mined nylon idiom on its native nylon-string lead) and classicalweave into chamber (The Greats' line on violin/viola).

▶ Play it: Saudade Observatory → Rosin Seance → Smoke Arithmetic — the three genres this change names, as one path

cc5a084 · colophon · source

• Four families ship (rip:alias syntax): folkweave, jazzweave (wired into folk/ jazz lead pools), guitarweave, classicalweave (registered, unwired — awaiting a home genre + ears).
• Known limit (stated in the csd-engine comment): the ladder alphabet cannot do scale-step motion (corpus stepFrac ~.5, weave ~.07) — passing-tone connectors are the v2.

Verified: test/melody-weave.test.js (stochastic rows, registration, density, chord-safety on the ladder, determinism, corpus density order). Full suite + matrix 274/274 green.

▶ Play it: Smoke Arithmetic → Kettle Eschaton — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

ae1cc2a · colophon · source

• tools/fetch-midi-trove.sh / fetch-midi-bulk.sh — the fetch recipes
• tools/mine-midi.js — SMF parser + verifier-formula features + KK key detection (72% vs embedded sigs)
• tools/corpus-db.js — SQLite corpus: 120,652 files / 40M+ notes as integer blobs, extracted melody lines w/ honest mel_conf, 26-dim vectors (full-corpus cosine scan 111ms
• tools/mine-theory.js — FUNC_NEXT/POOL harmony tables from 86,301 deduped files / 4.4M diatonic transitions; --splice REFUSES tables that lose the held-out comparison.

▶ Play it: Perforated Afterlife → Smoke Arithmetic → Crossroads Paperwork — the three genres this change names, as one path

898bf64 · colophon · source

Verified: verify.sh, full-boot, starcruise-run 79/79 + nav.

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

072ea1a · colophon · source

Verified: full-boot, starcruise-run + nav.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

eb7851f · colophon · source

Verified: full-boot, starcruise-run + nav, access-ui 12/12.

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

37e2104 · colophon · source

• Named regions (distinct instruments -> open feature-space): 5 classical (romanticism/chamber/impressionism/postminimal/symphony), 4 rock (punk/indie/grunge/postrock), 8 world/latin/jazz/hiphop…
• 6 INVENTED "lerp" genres filling the emptiest midpoints of the 23-D feature space (cryptvespers/nocturnesmash/glacialgabber/breakbop/atticlament/ hazebunker), via the new tools/lerp-genre.js (interpolate two…
• New authoring tools: tools/lerp-genre.js (invent-by-interpolation) and tools/rm-genre.js (clean removal).
• Accessible view (access.html): the three 273-row genre <select>s were unusable, so they become native type-to-filter comboboxes -- one shared <datalist> + three <input list>.

Verified: matrix 273/273, verify.sh (validate/engine/prove/matproof/poscover/ coordscover), full-boot-run, starcruise-run 79/79 + nav, access-ui 12/12.

▶ Play it: Servo Elegy → Ballroom Leviathan → Amen Hypotenuse — the three genres this change names, as one path

e7d7f53 · colophon · source

• Genre count corrected everywhere: 228/240/249 -> 250 (matrix prints 250/250, verified). index.html about panel, how.html, README.md, CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md.
• index.html help line already reflects the four views (map/viz/video/aliens) + the duration control.
• Added a root package.json declaring the ONE browser-test dep (playwright ^1.57.0), and gitignored /node_modules/.
• CONTRIBUTING documents the browser-gate setup.

Verified: verify.sh (matrix/validate/engine/prove/matproof/poscover/coordscover) all PASS at 250/250; full-boot green. No app behaviour change.

▶ read how a song is made — the drawn pipeline itself

8dcadb7 · colophon · source

• The aliens (3D star-cruise) are now the 4th VIEW — the ✦ chip cycles map → viz → video → aliens → map (👾 icon). Removed the standalone 🛸 chip and the ✕ EXIT button entirely
• VHS scanline overlay (scanlines + drifting tracking-roll + vignette) in front of the 3D view, on top of the PS1 post pass.
• Band spaced much wider (spread ~3.2-4.2 -> 5-7; world grown to hold it, capped so it stays a little planet).
• Backdrop REMOVED — no city/farm/trees/objects; the bare planet is the stage (empty backdrop group keeps the lifecycle intact).

Verified: starcruise-run 79/79, full-boot, traits-run, alien-run, alien-face-run, alien-dancer-run all green.

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

6e5cd73 · colophon · source

• stream-renderer.js (renderChunk): applyVapor() bakes the "walking through a mall" master EQ into the full-mix stereo stream that feeds BOTH the desktop ring and the mobile WAV segments
• live.js: both conductors now carry the vapor amount into each fed bar (ring: curVapor; wav-first: curVaporWav), and their setVapor() updates it

Verified: segment-parity 14/14 BYTE-EQUAL at vapor 0 (maxΔ 0); a render at vapor 0.7 muffles the highs to ~60% + ducks level to ~87%; share-url live audio path clean, zero page errors.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — the brightest, most processed corner of the space

91f1e11 · colophon · source

Verified: simulate-path 4/4 (all 3 default genres crossed), share-url 13/13 (legacy pace URL maps identically), explorer-ui constant-pace seamless, full-boot healthy.

▶ Play it: Loon Referendum — parked on the genre this change names

39c0a9d · colophon · source

• FREE-LOOK persists (app/starcruise.js): removed the 3.5s auto-recenter that snapped the view back to forward — it read as "can't change my view when flying between planets." A drag now HOLDS where you leave it
• WHOLE-ALIEN framing (app/starcruise.js): the landed auto-cam still filled the frame with the (big, winged/horned) creatures.
• TOP-DOWN ARRIVAL — the descent now falls to a pose high OVER the landing pad looking straight DOWN at the little planet, then eases onto the pad

Verified: starcruise-run 79/79, full-boot-run healthy.

▶ Play it: Unblinking Interval → Barometric Stampede → Food Court Eternity — a three-star constellation to watch the map work

ff9c74e · colophon · source

• closeups dist 3.6 -> 7.0, target y 1.3 -> 1.15, yaw ±0.30 -> ±0.14 (near-front), fov 50 -> 52
• drummer dist 3.9 -> 6.8, matched framing
• through: was a hard dolly (-1.4 from 4.5) that cratered onto the band; now a gentle push (-0.6 from 9.0) that never zooms past a whole-body view
• orbit.minDist 2.2 -> 3.6 so nothing (auto or manual) craters in past the body

Verified: starcruise-run 79/79 (CA1-3 framing asserts green, min shot camY 1.96), full-boot-run healthy.

▶ Play it: Unblinking Interval → Barometric Stampede → Food Court Eternity — a three-star constellation to watch the map work

bd6ae32 · colophon · source

• Continuous space flight: the "moves every 8 bars" lurch survived the v15 fix because only the lateral PAN was dead-reckoned
• Free-look in transit: a drag now turns the view about the flying eye (transitLook yaw/pitch) without fighting the auto-flight path; gentle recenter (TC 3.5s), zeroed on depart.
• Planets are planets, not colored blobs: makePlanetMarkerMaterial adds procedural continents/oceans/polar-caps + a fresnel atmosphere rim over the per-genre hue, per-instance aSeed, still one instanced draw…
• Suns are darker + flaming: makeSunMaterial renders churning emissive plasma (dark ember valleys, fiery granulation, sunspots, limb darkening) off the deterministic dt clock, with a rounder/warmer corona.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Molten Horsepower — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

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• FACES — big cute eyes (sclera + iris + pupil + catchlight) now sit PROUD of the marching-cubes body front instead of buried inside it; rosy cheeks, hinged-jaw mouths.
• JOINTED LIMBS — visible shoulder/hip socket where each limb meets the core, plus elbow/wrist and knee/ankle knobs; arms flex to reach instruments (onset contact reach<0.05 preserved), tentacles show joint nodes.
• BODY VARIETY — the 7 metaball body plans now read as distinct silhouettes (cephalopod/insectoid/stalk/crystalline/blob/radial/gas) and per-alien seeds differ
• FEET PLANTED — liftY computed off the true standing foot line (body+legs only, excluding the lowered instrument/arms) instead of the worst-case rest pose, so aliens rest at y~0 on the curved surface (were floating…

Verified: full-boot-run (real main.js boot, 🛸 present, 0 errors), alien / alien-dancer / alien-face / starcruise suites green (new O2 FEET-TOUCH assertion), determinism preserved.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Molten Horsepower — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

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• LITTLE PRINCE SCALE — land on a SMALL curved procedural planet (planet.js smallWorld, radius ~23, horizon bends away underfoot) — the band + dancers stand ON its surface oriented to the normal
• PER-GENRE VARIETY — 9 terrain types (hills/mountains/seas/archipelago/desert/ canyons/craters/ice/volcanic) now GENRE-KEYED (terrain seed = hash(genre)^seed) so each planet's landscape shape differs, not just its palette
• ORGANIC ALIENS — THREE.MarchingCubes vendored (r160, offline import); alien bodies are baked metaball FUSED surfaces (limbs melt into the torso) instead of clamped tubes
• CONTINUOUS CAMERA — the 8-bar lurch is gone — the followed target dead-reckons a linear ramp across each bar interval (advances every frame at constant velocity) instead of easing to a static target and waiting

Verified: all 12 suites + full-boot CLEAN + verify.sh green; landed shots (inspected) show black space, band on a visibly curved little planet, per-genre terrain+city.

▶ Play it: Unblinking Interval → Barometric Stampede → Food Court Eternity — a three-star constellation to watch the map work

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• ONE unified Object3D scene: the dominant genre's surface/band is built (on APPROACH, keyed by the live weights) at the planet and GROWS IN during the descent, persisting through touchdown
• CONTINUOUS camera: critically-damped springs (smoothDamp, dt-only) on land/space progress + aim at the CONTINUOUS weight-blend centroid (not the discrete dominant), so a bar-boundary weight flip only nudges…
• PROCEDURAL PLANET GROUND — vendored simplex-noise (jwagner v4, MIT, ~19KB, lazy-imported, no CDN) + app/starcruise/planet.js — a deterministic fBm- displaced icosphere with a CPU-samplable heightAt()

Verified: (measured + FRAME SEQUENCE inspected): barcadence boundary-lurch worst 33x->1.0x; scene-jump 60.9x->2.31x; descent camDist 272->4.6 continuous (max step < teleport)

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — the genre that is mostly drums, so the kit has nowhere to hide

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• SPREAD + STARS — FIELD scale 0.55->3.5 (~6.4x); closest suns 3->19 units apart (real empty space). Suns render as EMISSIVE glowing stars (self-lit core + additive corona/halo InstancedMesh)
• NO 8-MEASURE LURCH — the lurch was a first-order follow spiking on the first frame after each discrete blend update. Replaced with a critically-damped spring (smoothDamp, CAM_SMOOTH=0.7s, dt-driven/deterministic) easing the galaxy…
• CONTINUOUS ZOOM-LAND — unified the star-map and surface regions — the transit pose is one lerp in t (0 deep-space .. 1 touchdown) into a SURFACE_POSE that is byte-identical to the landed pose (C0 handoff, no teleport).
• Preserved: fidelity model, band/faces/dancers/shaders/shadows/HUD, drummer-on-fill, front-on landing, teardown.

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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• GAZE — pupils lerp toward a seeded wandering target biased to the camera (eased, no jitter) — reads as tracking; all eyes converge.
• BLINK — per-alien interval+phase (crowd never blinks in unison); lids sweep shut.
• BROWS — raise on onset-accent / loudness.
• MOUTH — the LEAD/vocalist LIP-SYNCS on its own ctx.notes onsets (wider on higher velocity), the DRUMMER grimaces on hard hits, bass/perc stay near-closed, pad hums, dancers bob with loudness; shape varies O <-> wide.

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

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• GALAXY — 31 clusters = colored labeled SUNS (InstancedMesh, 1 draw call) at their star coords; 250 genres = PLANETS. Dominant genre's planet is the target.
• SMOOTH — removed the beat-driven camera bob/drift; damped frame-rate-independent transit follow (measured zero per-frame jitter).
• ALIENS — contiguous (neck/clavicle/shoulder/antenna-tip/sash close every gap); FLOOR collision (liftY so feet rest on ground, groove only hops up); PER-ALIEN colour/outfit (same-genre seeds -> distinct palettes)
• SHADERS SIMPLIFIED — material vocab reduced to the readable set (no wireframe / no pure-mesh); post-fx capped to gentle levels (no over-processing).

Verified: all 7 star-cruise suites + full-boot gate PASS first-hand (no crash, 🛸, starmap); GX1-7 (suns/no-ship/HUD/smooth/floor/drummer-on-fill/gated-dancers)…

▶ Play it: Kettle Eschaton — parked on the genre this change names

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• Docs: NEXT.md ship-law (POS-completeness outage law + full-boot in the battery); ADDING-A-GENRE.md (missing POS now noted as CRASHES, not just invisible).

Verified: pos-coverage.js (plain node, CI-safe, wired into verify.sh as `poscover`): every GenreKernel.GENRES key MUST have an app/world.js POS entry, else FAIL.

▶ Play it: Kettle Eschaton — parked on the genre this change names

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• Fix: add folk:[1850,5750] to POS (acoustic/country cluster, min-sep clear) → POS covers all 250 genres → computeGenreLayout early-returns → clean boot.

Verified: full-app headless boot probe (real main.js) now boots with NO crash, zero console errors, 🛸 chip present, all 4 chips, starmap rendered, window.__S + GenreKernel + __STARCRUISE all live…

▶ Play it: Kettle Eschaton — parked on the genre this change names

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Verified: all star-cruise headless suites PASS first-hand (starcruise-run 65, alien, alien-dancer, backdrop, traits). No engine/render-path file touched.

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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• STRUMMING — a real rhythmic down/up strum-comping articulation for chords/guitar (per-beat strum pattern, strum direction + spread + seeded humanize), opt-in — byte-identical for genres that don't use it.
• FOLK genre: genre-specs/folk.json (acoustic strummed guitar, acoustic bass, light/brushed drums, warm production, modal/diatonic folk progressions) added via genre-tool
• MORE VARIETY — new transitions/drum fills, synth sweeps, and stabs; a curated subset wired into genres that were monotonous.
• Byte-safe: additions are opt-in (segment-parity 8/8 BYTE-EQUAL, zero collateral drift). Intentional fixture drift scoped to EXACTLY the wired genres

▶ Play it: Kettle Eschaton → Habanera Tribunal → Mirrorball Panopticon — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• ONE ALIEN PER ACTIVE VOICE — a score bridge in starcruise.js resolves the playing state, calls E.buildEvents ONCE, buckets events per voice, and hands each alien its voice's real per-bar notes {t,pitch,dur,vel} + level.
• PLAYS THE SCORE / RESTS WHEN SILENT — the playing appendage contacts on real onsets (syncopation shows; pitch biases position; sustains hold across a note); a silent/quiet voice (level<=0.05) rests — no fake beat-strikes.
• 3D GENRE-SPACE COORDS: app/starcruise/genre-coords.js (PCA-top3 of the feature centroids, deterministic, nearby=similar-sounding) + tools/feature-layout3d.js generator
• Preserves the per-genre shaders (post-fx + material), shadows, dancers, nav, cockpit/fly-away. No engine/render-path file touched.

Verified: starcruise-run onset-model H2/H3 (plays real onsets, rests when silent) + SB1-SB6 score bridge; traits/alien/alien-dancer green.

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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• Fix (live-path only): makeWalk gains per-voice loop memory — an established voice (whose run has ended at least once, incl. across the loop seam) re-enters at FULL via _voiceRun[v].noIn
• Byte-safe: press/offline never sets _voiceRun, so fixtures are byte-stable (3861 hashes, NO recapture); matrix 249/249, segment-parity byte-equal, wavout-seam + verify.sh PASS.

▶ Play it: Highway Heat Death — where the synthesis is the identity, not the decoration

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• post-fx (app/starcruise/postfx.js): one fragment pass parameterized by renderStyle.post — selectable dither (none/ordered/onebit), posterize, per-channel grade, cheap single-pass bloom, chromatic aberration…
• materials (alien.js + backdrop.js + ship.js): renderStyle.material selects flat/cel(toon)/iridescent(fresnel-hue)/wireframe/glitch(vertex-jitter+rgb-split) /matte — built once per style, reused (mobile-cheap).

Verified: traits-run (6 genres -> 6 distinct post bags, 4 materials, deterministic); starcruise-run ALL PASS incl RS1-RS3 (live uniforms match the landed genre, two genres render distinctly…

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — a long-form genre — put the phone in your pocket and it keeps playing

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• NAV FIX — the landed camera was inheriting the star-map's raw world-X (drift). Clamped drift and seed the orbit FRONT-ON to the band centroid (yaw 0, gentle down-pitch).
• RESOLUTION up a lot: internal target now near-native (~800x600, DPR/mobile capped), still light (geometry stays cheap).
• ALIENS — real faces (brow/snout/mouth that opens on the pulse, fangs, pupils), gently waving eyestalks, 3-segment limbs (shoulder/elbow/wrist), bolder contrast + a reused procedural texture, and background DANCERS…
• CITY — 11 polyhedra families (spires/domes/pyramids/ziggurats/tetra/octa…), blinking window/beacon lights, foliage — no more stacked cubes.

Verified: test/starcruise-run.js 48/48 PASS (band plays on beat max-dist 0.000, nav orbit responds, dancers spawn, cockpit shows planet+genres, shadows on, exit works, clean teardown).

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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• EXIT — an always-visible ✕ button (z-60, thumb target, safe-area) + Escape + the 🛸 toggle — the overlay can no longer trap you; torn down on stop().
• NAV — hand-rolled orbit/dolly/pan (no new Three addon). Mouse drag = look, wheel = zoom; touch drag = look, two-finger pinch = zoom; WASD/arrows fly.
• RESOLUTION — internal target now aspect-fit, DPR/mobile-aware, capped long edge 512 (fine) / 448 (touch) — 512x384 on desktop; still dithered/crunchy PS1.
• so the deploy lands on reload.

Verified: test/starcruise-run.js 37/37 PASS (adds EXIT-click-stops-mode + 512x384 assertions; core band-plays-on-beat + clean-teardown preserved).

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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• Three.js r160 (MIT) vendored at vendor/three/, LAZY-loaded only on activation (dynamic import) so the zero-dependency initial/mobile load is untouched.
• app/starcruise.js (controller) + app/starcruise/{traits,alien,backdrop,postfx, flight}.js; bright flat vivid lighting + a linear->sRGB post-fx fix.
• OFF by default; no engine/render-path file touched (byte-identity safe); index.html +1 module line; docs/STARCRUISE.md.

Verified: test/starcruise-run.js 30/30 PASS (band spawns on land, plays on the beat max-dist 0.000, clean teardown, no leak); traits deterministic + diverse; explorer-ui regression gate green.

▶ Play it: Dust Census — parked on the genre this change names

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• restrict the export take to LOCAL clips (a cross-origin drawImage silently taints the canvas; the old try/catch could not catch it) + fix the false "caught and skipped" header comment
• feature-detect captureStream + a working audio track; disable on iOS/unsupported
• derive the download extension AND Blob type from rec.mimeType (was hard-coded .webm)
• refuse/pause recording when document.hidden (drop the false "immune to throttling")

Verified: video-export-probe PASS (168 frames, audio, graceful taint-degrade, hidden-tab refusal). Safari-mp4 / iOS-disable / real-remote-taint / real-throttle remain device-pending.

▶ Play it: Highway Heat Death — where the synthesis is the identity, not the decoration

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• engine/genre-geometry.js (centroids/dist/nearest/matrix; centroids byte-identical to validate-genres gateGeometry) + engine/genre-sim.js (node-safe anchor-Jaccard)
• genre-verifier.js: persist matrix.json; opt-in scoreRow contributions (default path byte-unchanged)
• Five WARN gates in validate-genres.js (never hard-fail): near-duplicate, margin-sentinel, determinism-fuzz, blend-monotonicity, dead-axis
• 14 CLI tools incl. target-blend (nearest-reachable solver), target-lint, leak-attribution, neighbors, genome-diff, coverage, feature-pca, feature-layout, mutate, genre-math, surprise, empty-space, lesson

▶ Play it: Highway Heat Death — where the synthesis is the identity, not the decoration

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• yachtrock — Rhodes/sax soft rock, neosoul/ii_v_i, ~112bpm, dry polished mix
• rnb — slow-jam quiet-storm soul, solo-vox lead, ~72bpm
• gospel — choir + church organ, big backbeat, wide reverb, major cadences, ~92bpm
• honkytonk — steel-string/fiddle/harmonica, high-swing shuffle, dry spring, ~108bpm

Verified: matrix 249/249 diagonal-dominant, validate PASS (0 fail), explorer-ui PASS, prove + matproof byte-identical (composition unchanged; new anchors only).

▶ Play it: Rapture Logistics → Last Call Cosmology → Tumbleweed Perihelion — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• silkmist — Chinese pentatonic: koto/pan_flute/fiddle, mode_mixo/dorian/drone_min
• taqsim — Arab hijaz maqam: sitar/oboe/pan_flute, hijaz/andalusian/phrygian
• vespers — Bulgarian Orthodox chant: ahh_choir/ohh_voices, drone_min, no drums
• Authored via tools/genre-tool.js create (specs in genre-specs/). vespers needed all-sampler voices + heavy shimmer reverb + acoustic/wash-weighted verify to break a matrix tie with the sourdough/termswave…

Verified: matrix 243/243 diagonal-dominant, validate PASS, explorer-ui PASS, prove + matproof byte-identical (composition unchanged; new anchors only).

▶ Play it: Basalt Antiphon → Sirocco Sermon → Jade Vapor Archive — the three genres this change names, as one path

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Verified: share-url PASS (13 checks); explorer-ui PASS (boot + live ride, zero errors — the targeting/starmap changes don't break playback).

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

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• Widened SAMPLED_BASSES (+synth_bass_1/2), SAMPLED_PADS (+synth_strings_2/ atmosphere/fantasia/crystal/ice_rain), and every SAMPLED_LEAD family
• UNMAPPED generic synths now draw a lead family PER SONG across the whole palette (was always "wind"), so marimba/vibraphone/koto/dulcimer/accordion actually appear.
• RENDER-only (pickSampledId runs in forceSampled, not buildEvents) → fixtures 0-drift, matrix/segment-parity byte-identical; the instrument HEARD changes, the score does not.

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

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• NO AUDIO — on DESKTOP the classic graph has no msDest (userGain → destination directly), so audioStream() returned null and there was no mediaEl to fall back to.
• ONE FRAME / hour-long / VLC-crash: the capture canvas was OFF-DOM and driven by requestAnimationFrame — captureStream produced a near-static, malformed stream.

Verified: (test/video-export-probe.js, now checks REAL content): 6 s take → 171 composited frames, audio track present, vp9+opus webm, 536 KB (was a static ~200 KB).

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — the brightest, most processed corner of the space

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Verified: fixtures 0-drift; vaporwave found events = 10 at t=0/0.05, 0 at t=0.3.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — parked on the genre this change names

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• VAPOR is a real "empty mall" now: as vapor 0→1 the master MUFFLES (lowpass 20k→1.4k), RECEDES (dry ducks) and drenches in a big DIFFUSE hall wash (3 lowpassed comb delays + pre-delay)
• SYNTH-FONT DRUMS — a synth font now drops the sampled kit so drums are the engine's synthesized voices too. The real gate was applySampledOnly (runs on every track() and re-added a kit after toState)
• HOVERING VOICES fixed on the analog font: voice/choir/string/organ instruments (and all PADS) route to the POLY juno60 instead of collapsing on mono modeld.
• Renamed the fonts: MiniMoog → "Pure Analog", DX7 → "Pure FM"; small oscillator drift floor across the analog voices.

Verified: fixtures 0-drift (all opt-in/live-only); synthfont probe both fonts render audio (Pure Analog rms .074 / Pure FM .080), pads poly juno60 at render; video probe PASS (201KB webm + progress)

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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• Compositor (app/video-export.js): the found-VIDEO front clip cover-fit as the background with the DEMOSCENE screen-blended on top — the same look as live.
• live.js handle: audioStream() → the msDest MediaStream (falls back to mediaEl.captureStream).
• video-layer.js: _frontEl() → the front <video> for compositing.
• panels.js: the ⏺/⏹ button. video-export.js: recordVideo/stopVideo (+ window.__VIDEO).

Verified: test/video-export-probe.js (browser) — button present, MediaRecorder supported, a 4s take returns a valid ~421 KB webm (vp9) of the composited visuals + audio.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

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• MiniMoog (analog): each GM instrument → a modeld voice by tonal family (brass/ reed/flute/string/mallet/pluck/bass/key/organ/voice/lead → cutoff/env/attack/ sustain/drive/oscMix/drift).
• DX7 — each GM instrument → a Yamaha DX7 ROM patch ({algorithm,params} from the 114-patch bank) — per-instrument where the ROM names it (SITAR/KOTO/MARIMBA/ ACCORDION/…), else the family patch…
• genre-kernel: instrMerge() (default toState path) + _sampledOnlySpec() (the allSampled path) emit {model:modeld/juno60/dx7, params/dx7} instead of zones when a synth font is active
• state-engine forceSampled: one branch — spec.synth → route to the existing modeld/dx7 dispatch (level/sends/register ride through the recipe).

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

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• Dose: +~0.75–1.3 non-diatonic tones per 8-bar phrase in the mild-to-mid band (≈ one applied-dominant moment per phrase), tapering at the extremes.

Verified: theory.test (monotonicity + voice-leading motion <3st both green); pipes; verify.sh with FRESH matrix (theory.js isn't a cache-key) = 240/240 diagonal-dominant

▶ Play it: Saudade Observatory → Mercury Interrogation → Voltage Curtsy — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• fixtures: 0 drift (composition identical)
• segment-parity: ALL byte-equal (press==stream both fold; covers jungle sampler trombone, spokenword sax, etc.)
• Ranges are my best musical judgment (comfortable ceilings a touch under the physical extreme, where the shriek lives) — tunable per instrument by ear.

Verified: verify.sh + theory/pipes/speech: green

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede → Dial Tone Prophet — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

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• live.js: vaporShelf + a small feedback-delay reverb send in the output graph; handle.setVapor(v) -> applyVapor rides both, click-free.
• app/live.js: setVapor wrapper (persist + apply), vapor passed in exploreLive opts.
• state.js: _vapor persisted like _masterVol. panels.js: the slider row.
• WAV-first mobile path plays a plain <audio> (no live graph), so vapor rides the classic/desktop path only

Verified: (test/vapor-loopexport-probe.js, browser): slider persists to localStorage, S.vapor tracks, riding it on the RUNNING graph throws nothing and playback survives.

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — the genre that is mostly drums, so the kit has nowhere to hide

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Verified: journey.js/export.js parse; simulate-path gate green (walk intact). Browser export-flow verification to follow at the checkpoint.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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• sampler.js mixPCM: threshold trigger off sends.granularOverSt (per-note rate); n.granular still forces it. Absent => byte-identical.
• state-engine samplerUnit: carry granularOverSt/grainSec from the recipe.
• press.js + stream-renderer.js: pass the config through the per-unit sends.
• genre-kernel: RECIPE_PASSTHROUGH set so the scalar flag blends WITHOUT an inRange draw — the composition is byte-identical, ONLY the render changes (vaporwave events+features unchanged; just the new state key).

Verified: fixtures scoped to vaporwave state only (events/features identical); verify.sh green; segment-parity ALL byte-equal incl vaporwave_s1. ~13% of the sax notes trigger.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

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• BREAK (drum loops) is deliberately NOT defaulted — it's not the vocal/instrumental material named; boombap/jungle keep their explicit stutter-only scratch.
• Byte-scope: drift is EXACTLY the chops/break genres (bed/narration/response/buried untouched, byte-identical); fixtures recaptured.

▶ Play it: Unblinking Interval → Congregation Furnace → Barometric Stampede — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• csd-engine: stamp scratch on chops-role hits (crateflip's soul-78 chops) and ONLY the break-role stutter ornament (boombap/jungle amen) so the drum groove stays intact; carry scratch onto srcById conditionally.
• state-engine: plumb scratch through the chop push -> found-player sees f.scratch.
• found-player: the real-time FoundLive.chop pre-renders the triangle scrub into a one-shot buffer (WebAudio has no scrub primitive), same math as mixPCM.
• genre-kernel: foundScratch pulled from the found parent; scratch key baked onto opted sources only. crateflip 0.18 (chops), boombap 0.5 / jungle 0.45 (stutter).

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede → Milk Crate Scripture → Shellac Excavation — the three genres this change names, as one path

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▶ Play it: Highway Heat Death — where the synthesis is the identity, not the decoration

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▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — parked on the genre this change names

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▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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▶ Play it: Bulrush Cyclotron — parked on the genre this change names

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▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — the brightest, most processed corner of the space

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▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

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▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — the brightest, most processed corner of the space

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▶ Play it: Maelstrom Rowing Club → Molten Horsepower — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

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▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — the genre that is mostly drums, so the kit has nowhere to hide

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▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — the brightest, most processed corner of the space

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▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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▶ Play it: Mirrorball Panopticon — parked on the genre this change names

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• export.js exportLoopAudio decodes the sources, drives the worker, and assembles a WAV Blob-of-parts (int16 bodies, no giant contiguous copy) or feeds the mp3 worker block-by-block

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

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• Arranged VERTICALLY (top->bottom) so it stays legible on a phone — a portrait column capped at 380px, not a wide fan that shrinks to nothing.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — the brightest, most processed corner of the space

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• Also fixes a latent bug: 'delay' was a working state-engine module but was never registered in the kernel's INSERT_DEFAULTS, so any pool-declared delay was silently dropped catalog-wide

▶ Play it: Undertow Sock Hop → Dune Recursion → Amen Monolith — the three genres this change names, as one path

3a1ab70 · colophon · source

• Drum balance (Paul: 'drums in the louder genres are very hot — balance voices everywhere'): a gentle hot-kit level pull at the shared mastering choke point (press + stream + live-bake).

▶ Play it: Jackhammer Communion — parked on the genre this change names

a13609a · colophon · source

• Fix, two layers: sampler.js clamps loopEnd = min(z.loopEnd, src.length-1) in BOTH the mixPCM (press/stream/bake) and live-native paths

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

0399807 · colophon · source

• makeWalk's per-bar payload now carries `ev` (the note-level buildEvents of that bar's collapsed section).
• midi-export.buildMidiJourney(bars) concatenates the per-bar note events (each offset by its absolute startBeat) into ONE SMF with a tempo map — pads/bass/ melody + GM drums across every genre the loop crosses.
• journey.buildLoopMidi() walks one full loop and assembles it.
• app/export.js downloadMidi now exports the WHOLE PATH when a loop is drawn ("… (full path).mid"), falling back to the current song when there's no path.

Verified: a 3-waypoint loop -> a valid format-1 5-track SMF; explorer-ui's MIDI gate parses it clean.

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

4eaada1 · colophon · source

• FaustLive.makeWalk is EXPORTED — the same per-bar walk the live conductors run.
• targeting.stateAt(pt): the pure blend state (K.mix + key/bpm/mode) with no store side effects.
• app/journey.js walkLoop(): drives makeWalk with a getState that walks the loop (pointOnPath(travelForBar(b)) -> stateAt), returning per-bar render payloads for one full loop (waypoints × pace bars).

Verified: headless: a 3-waypoint loop walks 72 bars / 303s, states evolve (2 unit topologies), events 26-59/bar, zero errors.

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

a43c0bf · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Sprite Metabolism — parked on the genre this change names

576570b · colophon · source

• tools/gen-font.js extracts any GM SF2 into a parallel set (found/samples/instruments-<key>/, full-capture via sf2.js) + a compact engine/faust/font-<key>.json {base, instr:{slug:{sr,zones}}}, matching kernel…
• genre-kernel routes the 4 sampler-build sites through fontInstr(id): the ACTIVE font's zones + sample dir, with PER-INSTRUMENT fallback to FluidR3 for anything a font lacks (specialty slugs: upright piano…
• native sampler zoneFor now selects the zone by VELOCITY too (vlo/vhi; absent = full range, so single-velocity fonts are unaffected)
• app/fonts.js loads the manifest, lazy-registers a font on pick, rebuilds the mix and hot-restarts the engine (shared srcIds → reload the caches).

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

0c7bd28 · colophon · source

• Validated: UprightPianoKW -> 66 zones across BOTH velocity layers (0-80 soft, 81-127 loud, previously the soft layer was discarded); FluidR3 Yamaha Grand -> all 20 key-zones (was 6).
• This is the extract side only. Consuming it needs the kernel INSTRUMENTS block regenerated from the fuller zones.json (velLo/velHi added) + the native sampler selecting a zone by velocity, not just note

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

8b13bae · colophon · source

• Relabel the sfx lane "synth stabs" so the viz is honest; "sampled stabs" now refers only to the real sample layer.
• Not touched here: the sampled-hit layer is genuinely rare because the engine picks ONE hits source per seed and most EDM genres mix stab pools with speech ids (sp_system/sp_energy) ~50/50

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

503559e · colophon · source

• This adds a causal master bus on the live SUM: a gentle glue compressor (−22 dB, 2.2:1) → a makeup lift (~+8 dB) → a brickwall limiter (−1.5 dB, 20:1) for peak safety.
• LIVE-ONLY — the baked export path keeps its own mastering, so segment-parity and the fixtures byte-identity are untouched.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — the brightest, most processed corner of the space

c42f3ff · colophon · source

• (The drop-in itself is correct: verified headless that setting startBar=137 and hitting ▶ drops the walk in at serial 137 with matching travel — goLive honors the measure, no revert.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

fbb1db5 · colophon · source

• VOLUME — a dedicated userGain node rides AFTER the analyser in the ring path (engine/faust/live.js) — placed there so the listener's volume never collides with the engine's fade/mute automation on masterGain, and the…
• PANEL POSITION — #panel was pinned top-right; it now anchors bottom-right ABOVE the chips row (bottom:4.2rem, right:.7rem — the settings button's edge) and grows upward, matching what the mobile layout already did.

Verified: headless: panel opens above the chips, right-aligned, off the top of the screen, volume slider drives S.masterVol + localStorage

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — the brightest, most processed corner of the space

77736be · colophon · source

• FoundLive gains a fadeAll(sec) (+ bed handle.fade) — the graceful sibling of stopAll: chops ramp their amp envelope, beds ramp out.gain, then stop.
• LIVE-ONLY — the native FoundLive voices are never baked into the worker stream, so the baked press mix — and segment-parity / fixtures byte-identity — are untouched. live-test + sampler-inserts-live green, zero errors.

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

3d592de · colophon · source

• computeRegions() (starmap.js) carves the finalized POS into 10 territories via deterministic k-means (farthest-point seeding + Lloyd, NO Math.random
• drawMap() paints each territory first (behind stars/lines): a soft color wash at the centroid + a big uppercase label (.region, dark-stroked for legibility over footage), and every inactive star halo now wears…

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede → Seismic Ultimatum → Perihelion Squeal — the three genres this change names, as one path

5d5db34 · colophon · source

• SUPERIMPOSE (background.js). The demoscene canvas was already built to composite THROUGH the footage (mix-blend:screen @ .45 — "mix them"), but the 2026-07-09 STRICT EXCLUSIVITY law forced one layer at a time.
• GLYPHS livelier (video-layer.js). The roaming station idents are the loudest voice in the chaos deck now: weight 7->14, denser swarms (often 3-5), size band 2.6..24 -> 4.5..34 vmin (bigger), desktop pool 4->10…
• SLOWER DEMOSCENE (demo-layer.js). Steady time multiplier speed 1 -> 0.3 (~3x slower) — cosmetic only: the beat-synced `kick` (pulse/note) is untouched so downbeats still punch, and the video wall (already…

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

0c62df5 · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Serotonin Stampede → Mercury Interrogation → Tidal Locking — the three genres this change names, as one path

0ec721c · colophon · source

• EVERY DRUM PIECE. The sampled kits' clap/rim/ride/crash/perc units fell through noteRole and matched no lane — half of every sampled kit (the default sound!) was invisible.
• ALL TRACKS. The six fixed lanes hid two layers: stabs/hits rode inside the lead lane, and the spoken/vocal sample layers (the auctioneer chant, the umpire, every commission voice) were mushed into the one…
• Probed: auctioncore shows voices "cut-up announcer voice" + its break chops; umpirehouse shows stabs(4) + voices(1); reggae's onedrop shows all 18 kit events. genre-viz + explorer-ui green.

▶ Play it: Full Count Judgment → Going Going Gone — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

06b9a4e · colophon · source

• THE FETCH — 47 new clips cut from 21 archive.org items — weather/storms (Tornado, the 1938 hurricane, the dust front from The Plow that Broke the Plains, Tacoma Narrows galloping), volcano fire (Kilauea in color), snow…
• THE SPREAD — 164 genre pools extended (each genre that leaned on a top-5 clip gains >=2 mood-matched new clips
• THE NUMBERS — 89 -> 136 distinct clips; 240/240 anchors have pools (min 4); night_lines 57->18, kaleido 56->27, blue_dinner 53->24, night_lights 53->39, dark_face 49->39; new top-5 share of slots 13.8%.

Verified: verify.sh --no-cache FULLY GREEN (matrix 240/240 diagonal dominant, validate, engine, prove, matproof)

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Swarm Motet → Tectonic Tantrum — the three genres this change names, as one path

b7d4233 · colophon · source

• ONE VIEW BUTTON. insideChip + bgChip merge into #viewChip, cycling the three 100% views — ✦ star map -> ⓘ infoviz -> ▣ video -> map.
• THE FOUR-ROW PANEL. ⚙ is now: seed + 🎲 + ⧉ share · pace · ±bpm · downloads. Gone: LIVE/STOP/MORE/VIDEO buttons, mode/scale lock, the eleven DIMS detail sliders, preset/path import-export, reset-loop.
• FICTION EVERYWHERE — the STAR MAP now draws kernel labels (culling measures the label), the chyron's blend readout and the lock-screen Media Session speak the fiction too.
• The ? about panel re-written for the new world: three views, the playhead drag, stop-twice, ±bpm, the bookmarkable address bar.

Verified: re-pinned and green: genre-viz (3-chip row, #viewChip opens the viz), explorer-ui (view cycle reaches video mode via the loop, downloads on the main panel), share-url 13, access-ui 11.

▶ Play it: Sprite Metabolism — parked on the genre this change names

0035011 · colophon · source

• NEW ARCS — aaba head / head 2 / bridge / head 3 / coda — the 32-bar song form; SOLO_IDIOM splices head->bridge->SOLO->head out (jazz, bebop) vamp groove / layer in / cook / peak vamp / breakdown / layer out / outro
• NEW PROGRESSIONS — whole_tone (aug planing), interchange (I-bVII-IV-iv), mediant (I-III-I-bVI), blues_16 (Watermelon Man vein — 128-beat cycles, fast genres only), quartal (sus4 planing), epic_maj (I-V-IV-V — authors' wishlist).
• REASSIGNED — pop 128->88 (-40), dj 40->37, wave 39->35; vamp 10, aaba 13, duet 7, throughline 6, suite 5, storm 4.
• MEASURED, retuned by assignment (never the fence): first pass 224/240 — the losers were tight-auto-target invented genres (7 reverted to pop) and knife-edge progression hosts (7 additions dropped/re-homed)

Verified: verify.sh --no-cache FULLY GREEN (matrix 240/240 diagonal-dominant, validate --quick 0 fail incl. per-seed dominance, engine, prove, matproof)

▶ Play it: Downbeat Notary → Mercury Interrogation → Smoke Arithmetic — the three genres this change names, as one path

acbad08 · colophon · source

• 12 breaks 82-140bpm, drumloops113 (archive.org, CC BY 2.5, author-made, bpm measured by classify-sample-cd.py and pinned)
• 11 one-shots from VCSL (CC0 via GitHub license API): 4 chimes (tubular bells C4/E3, hand chime, glockenspiel) + 7 orchestral percussion (timpani, gong, anvil, woodblock, slapstick, agogo, cowbell)
• 4 pre-1923 78rpm cuts (PD by age, MMA; deterministic loudest-window cut): 2 military-band horn tuttis (1918/1922), Caruso's Tosca climax (1909), a 1920 laughing record
• 3 more Apollo capcom one-liners (NASA PD)

Verified: validate-genres orPool() accepts pool tokens on found/hits/vox source checks (valid iff class exists and EVERY member passes the registry check)

▶ Play it: Congregation Furnace → Martini Parallax → Phosphor Persistence — the three genres this change names, as one path

386c193 · colophon · source

• tools/fetch-bed-expansion.sh (adopted from the 2026-07-10 bed-curation round): 79 radio-aporee beds, license-verified per item (PD Mark x55, CC BY x12, CC BY-SA x12 — zero NC/ND), incl.
• engine/genre-kernel.js SOURCES: +79 classed, license-flagged entries; SOURCES.md gains the full attribution table (BY/BY-SA flags complete).
• SOURCE_POOLS filled: city 16, road 10, industry 10, voices 11, nature 7, water 9, room 8 + three NEW classes weather 9, smalltown 8, shortwave 5.
• THE SWEEP — 152 of 240 anchors' role:"bed" found.sources swapped from raw generic ids to pool:<class>*N tokens, SAME class mix per anchor.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Rail Replacement Rapture → Subduction Hymnal — the three genres this change names, as one path

6e16d30 · colophon · source

• sw.js v2: app code goes STALE-WHILE-REVALIDATE — a repeat visit paints from the SW cache instantly (measured: 29 app/engine files cache-served on reload, zero errors) while a background fetch refreshes the…
• precache: NEVER competes with the music or the boot — the warm now waits for the engine to be live and 3+ bars deep (its own decodes done), or 25s of idle; phones get a 120-file cap (desktop 400).

Verified: explorer-ui, access-ui, share-url green.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

33e1425 · colophon · source

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

6bb6daf · colophon · source

• 1. tenor_sax REPLACED in place (FreePats/VCSL CC0): 8 zones, ALL with infinite sustain loops, 4.3MB (was 6-zone FluidR3).
• attribution row added to SOURCES.md): pc_ds2_open/pc_ds2_pm/pc_ds2_pm2/ pc_as2_open in SAMPLES (kind:hit, measured D#2/A#2 roots, 0.26-12.5s).
• Fixture drift CLASSIFIED (derived, not committed): all 1140 genre-seed pairs drift because sampled-by-default injects the ENTIRE SAMPLERS library into every state (samplerLib + vol-0 foundSources + events…
• Known pre-existing red (NOT this change, proven on stashed HEAD): test/meter.test.js head_byte_identity copies a fixed HEAD file list that lacks the new engine/columns.js - its temp require fails.

Verified: verify.sh --no-cache FULLY GREEN (matrix 228/228 diagonal-dominant, validate PASS, engine presses PASS, prove PASS, matproof PASS).

▶ Play it: Molten Horsepower → Rail Replacement Rapture → Smoke Arithmetic — the three genres this change names, as one path

07142ef · colophon · source

• SOURCE_POOLS ships with seven conservative classes drawn from the current corpus (city/road/industry/voices/nature/water/room)

▶ Play it: Loon Referendum → Leviathan Turnaround — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

0cae4d3 · colophon · source

▶ Play it: The Patient Chase → Centrifuge Ballroom → Infrasound Omen — the three genres this change names, as one path

8ce6794 · colophon · source

• THREE EXCLUSIVE VIEWS ("star map, video, and viz are three different 100% views. when video is on turn off star map").
• ONE VECTOR ROSE. The "mind" meters (adventure/color/motion) were a different display than the feel radar for no reason
• PER-CELL PLAYHEAD — each ruler cell lights as the music passes through it (MEAS_BEATS 4 -> 1) and the bright leading-edge stripe is gone — a soft stepping block only.
• BEDS — it was the viz's ONE fallback label for 48 different field-recording beds (census: tokyo_station under 73 genres, shibuya 64, highway_night 52 — top-5 = 52% of 501 bed slots).

Verified: genre-viz re-pinned to the new contracts (viz IS a 100% view + map hidden, >=11 axes incl. the mind trio, zero numeric readouts) and PASSES

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

ba997d2 · colophon · source

• Consistency sweep: how.html stage-1/2 diagrams now show fiction labels (basement sermon/mirrorball shift/sweat equity/rollerlacquer + far stars), "prog: disco" corrected to the real id funk_vamp (no "disco"…
• The 67, old -> new: techno Techno -> Concrete Metronome house House -> Basement Sermon jungle Jungle -> Canopy Pressure triphop Trip hop -> Drizzle Noir vaporwave Vaporwave -> Marble Escalator synthwave…
• Worldbuilding pins: prelude/fugue share a stone room (The Turning Stair / The Patient Chase cross-reference); italo winks at synthwave ("the night-drive two doors down") without naming it.
• Deliberately skipped (out of territory): other anchors' cards that mention real genres (pigeonstep/dmvstep say "2-step garage", transitwave says "vaporwave")

Verified: verify.sh --no-cache: matrix PASS (diagonal-dominant) + engine + validate + prove + matproof, total PASS 57.8s. theory/pipes/invariants suites green.

▶ Play it: Congregation Furnace → Espresso Laser → The Turning Stair — the three genres this change names, as one path

40f8603 · colophon · source

• hip hop cosmos: crateflip (sample-flip at 98, chopUse .4-.6), lowglide (g-funk whine: mono glide lead + sub, 88-96), subrattle (trap: 808 sub + rolling hats 1.2-2.4/beat at 140), hollerknock (crunk chant at…
• Numbers: matrix 240/240 diagonal-dominant --no-cache; validate --quick PASS (dominance every genre, determinism byte-stable, 0 dangling refs); musicality all green (card-lie count 0
• Guitar note: higain insert claims were attempted and REJECTED by mechanism — kernel INSERT_DEFAULTS has no higain entry (pool entries silently drop) and constrain() routes sampler voices to distort-only (the…

▶ Play it: Infrasound Omen → Ohmic Grievance → Beehive Antenna — the three genres this change names, as one path

2ffd1ec · colophon · source

• The first stop already recorded the measure (the bookmarkable-mix work) so ▶ resumes at the playhead. Now a stop while ALREADY stopped

Verified: share-url-run grows the transport-law checks (stop remembers, double-stop rewinds, URL m dropped) — 13/13; explorer-ui + access-ui green.

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — a long-form genre — put the phone in your pocket and it keeps playing

74ef73c · colophon · source

• 1. STEREO PLACEMENT (state-engine applyMasterPan + renderers): constant-power per-unit pan — melody +0.10, pad -0.08 (+ per-note pitch spread 0.28/oct on sampled pads via notePan), solos alternating +/-0.14…
• 2. SAME-TIMBRE COLLISION CARVE (state-engine collisionCarve): two pitched voices on ONE sampler id => the lead keeps full range, accompaniment gets HPF 300 + a -4dB@450 mud dip on a CLONED strip (bass keeps…
• 3. REVERB BUDGET (state-engine reverbScale -> fxParams + reverbColor): wetSum = (sum of voice sends) x reverb, gated by beat DENSITY (share of sections with drums on)
• 4. GAIN STAGING (press computeMakeup): per-press peak normalization toward -6 dBFS, ceiling +18 dB, gain 1 for any press already at/above target

Verified: verify.sh --no-cache FULLY GREEN (matrix 28.6s + engine + validate + prove + matproof). segment-parity-test: ALL 9 states PASS BYTE-EQUAL (pan mirrored press/stream/stem-worker).

▶ Play it: Jackhammer Communion → Food Court Eternity → Cretaceous Vespers — the three genres this change names, as one path

af677c4 · colophon · source

• HIGAIN, the metal wing (per-archetype stage/tone, replaces strip distort where it stood): heavymetal (2-3 stages, the wall), longshipwhip (thrash TIGHT-GATED, mid-scooped, gate .55-.8), sludgemetal +…
• FENV — electro bass+lead and acidhouse's pluck-lead seeds claim the unified fenvAmount/fenvDecay (the legacy multiplier fenv removed on those voices so envelopes never stack; tb303 keeps envmod).
• LFO sync: dubstep wobbleBars .125 (THE 1/8 wobble, was free-running 1.5-4.5 Hz), italo juno60 pwmBase/pwmLfo, trance pad tremolo gate at a 1/16 (rateBars .0625, shape .7-1).
• WAH TRIM — disco/newjack/picnicswing/ chromeufo wah mix ranges -> .6-.7 (full-wet trimmed sampled funk bass ~3.9 dB).

Verified: verify.sh --no-cache fully green (matrix 228/228 + validate + engine + prove + matproof); probes higain/fenv/lfo-sync all PASS; theory/pipes/meter/musicality/invariants PASS

▶ Play it: Molasses Avalanche → Downbeat Notary → Highway Heat Death — the three genres this change names, as one path

02cad06 · colophon · source

• toColumns(events, fields[, {view}]) -> { n, <f>:Float64Array, mask:{<f>:Uint8Array}, keys, rest } - numeric fields become columns, everything else (strings, bend objects, solo flags, undefined-valued keys)…
• fromColumns(cols) -> rows JSON.stringify-identical to the input: key insertion order preserved, present-with-undefined vs absent preserved
• writeBack(cols, events[, fields]) - mask-gated assignment into the ORIGINAL row objects (columns as a compute view, zero re-materialization risk)
• map/scale/shift (elementwise, in-place, optional mask, scalar or per-row array operands) + where/and mask builders

Verified: columns.test.js (NEW): 6 gates - adversarial round-trip (key order, absent-vs-undefined, NaN/±0, nested objects), compute round-trip, helper semantics, mask-gated writeBack + view mode +…

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

1ebf2a8 · colophon · source

• chalkvespers 38.4s / atlantidrone 33.7s / sourdough 32.5s > 30s ring -> "openfail gen1: chunk 1485504 > ring 1323000" (captured headless), swallowed into handle.errors, app spins "priming…" forever, rms 0…
• sourdough is the 4th member of the class (never in the original 22-genre scan); next-largest bar is mallsoft at 19.2s, which always fit.
• Fix: splitFeedWindows() in the ring conductor's feed() — any bar over MAX_FEED_SEC (6s) goes to the WORKER as contiguous [lo..hi) sub-windows.
• Residual (deliberate): the WAV-FIRST mobile conductor still feeds whole bars (runBarAccumPump has no ring cap — slow first segment, not a hang)

Verified: (headless, live-test.html?wavOut=0, seed 7, scratch/ probes): before: atlantidrone NEVER primes (openfail above)

▶ Play it: Hadal Vespers → Subduction Hymnal → Mother Culture Vigil — the three genres this change names, as one path

f7572aa · colophon · source

• app/precache.js warms the ROUTE AHEAD of the traveler: on any path/seed change (debounced, keyed) it samples weightsAt along every leg, mixes the crossed genres once each, resolves the actual draw set
• THE ACCESSIBLE LINK (Paul: "tapping accessible text version goes nowhere"). Unreproducible in chromium at any viewport — iOS-Safari-side

Verified: explorer-ui, access-ui, share-url all green (one flaky explorer FAIL under fleet CPU contention, clean on re-run).

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

9cb9351 · colophon · source

• 1. HOOVER as a SIGNATURE model (gabber + happyhardcore): the cards promise hoover stabs but "stack" was sampled away to a wind fallback.
• 2. happyhardcore's piano + breakbeat: lead pool now ["hoover" x3, "sampler"] with samplerPool ["bright_yamaha_grand"] (the '92 rave piano riff, 2/12 seeds measured) and a one-bar amen ROLL into every section…
• 3. ska's guitar skank: pads samplerPool ["clean_guitar" x2, "percussive_organ","rock_organ"] - the choppy offbeat comp layer is guitar-first (7/20 seeds draw it; the 2-tone organ keeps the rest).

Verified: verify.sh --no-cache fully green (matrix 228/228 diagonal dominant, gabber/happyhardcore/ska all 100* self; validate/engine/prove/matproof PASS).

▶ Play it: Jackhammer Communion → Serotonin Stampede — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

111a5d5 · colophon · source

• THE BOOKMARKABLE MIX (app/share.js). ?seed&path&pace&mode&m ride the address bar, refreshed per bar (history.replaceState — no history spam).
• THE DRAGGABLE PLAYHEAD (starmap). With a path, the pink traveler IS the playhead: grab it (screen-space hit-test like the waypoints) and slide
• THE MEASURE-BLOCK PLAYHEAD (ⓘ viz). The one long sweep line is now a soft 4-beat block that lights the ACTIVE MEASURE and steps to the next — you read "measure 2 of this bar" at a glance.
• MACROS REMOVED SITEWIDE. The eight sliders leave panels/access/state/targeting/ main; test/macro-live-run.js retired; access-ui's slider check dropped.

Verified: NEW test/share-url-run.js (11 checks: restore, drop-in serial, live URL advance, playhead drag, macros gone, zero errors) + genre-viz + blend-arrival + live-test + access-ui + explorer-ui +…

▶ Play it: Stationary Weather — the accessible text version, where the same music arrives as prose

d5d2e61 · colophon · source

• hull() 38 dims proven in one pass (bpm/swing/fx/bass/lead/pad/drums) diff() DIFFERENTIAL cross-check against invariants.js's hand-rolled intervals: 37/38 dims EXACTLY EQUAL, 1 TIGHTER (fx.jux
• Vectorized with plain typed arrays (228×38 is instant); the BLAS/GSL-WASM seam is matrix()/hull()

Verified: prove-matrix.test.js gates it: differential agreement, witness, byte-equal determinism, and SENSITIVITY

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — the genre that is mostly drums, so the kit has nowhere to hide

b8f9c65 · colophon · source

• SNARE SELF-CHOKE ("snares stumbling on top of each other — the samples not cutting off fast enough").
• NO MASTER SWEEPS IN AN ACOUSTIC COMBO ("a huge filter sweep comes in"). The pop form's pre-chorus open sweep (260->18kHz across a whole section) is an EDM gesture with no place in a jazz/blues/funk/bluegrass…

Verified: verify.sh --no-cache all green (matrix 228/228, validate, engine, prove), segment-parity BYTE-EQUAL.

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation → Crossroads Paperwork → Smoke Arithmetic — the three genres this change names, as one path

a87e950 · colophon · source

• guitar accepts kpluck (canawave's arpeggiated Karplus guitar);
• theremin accepts a sine/stack/modeld lead (spacelounge's card literally says "theremin-vibrato sine");
• strings accepts bowed_glass/atmosphere pads; and add a skip-regex so "electric piano" doesn't trip the acoustic-piano claim (crumpetwhirl) and "palm-muted low strings"/"guitar" don't trip orchestral strings…
• 38 flagged genres collapse to 3 GENUINE lies the gate should keep naming: gabber + happyhardcore's hoover (never sounds in sampled mode

▶ Play it: Serotonin Stampede → Loon Referendum → Jackhammer Communion — the three genres this change names, as one path

c191b76 · colophon · source

• The improviser (csd-engine melodyEvents "solo"): per chord bar it builds a line from the chord tones (lead[]) with scale-step connectors and CHROMATIC APPROACH notes into the next target (the bop enclosure)…
• The solo section (genre-kernel buildSections): spliced before the final head (head -> SOLO -> head), the genre's own lead voice takes it, the comp ducks (soloDuck halves the pad bed so the line sits forward).

Verified: matrix 228/228 --no-cache (the dense solo section moves melody/motion features but no genre loses itself), verify.sh green (validate + engine + prove, incl.

▶ Play it: Crossroads Paperwork → Mercury Interrogation → Centrifugal Hymnal — the three genres this change names, as one path

3433f35 · colophon · source

• The one subtlety that makes it accurate: capability is read from the MIXED STATES, not the spec pools.
• Catalog: 38 card-lie WARNs across 228 genres after this session's wave — the honest remainder (gabber's hoover that never sounds sampled, dnb's absent amen source, whalejazz's empty-pool sax, happyhardcore's…
• All musicality gates green; validate/matrix/engine/prove unaffected.

▶ Play it: Jackhammer Communion → Serotonin Stampede → Mercury Interrogation — the three genres this change names, as one path

9014107 · colophon · source

• buried vox layers for the running voices (rotating the pool, every:2-4, maxDur sized so each clip finishes): sp_atc → airtrafficdrone, sp_ca → canawave, sp_cereal → cerealwave, sp_crier → towncrier, sp_dmv →…
• The three ambiguous mappings were resolved by reading the cards, not guessing: cereal→cerealwave (its card names the cereal ad

Verified: matrix 228/228 --no-cache (no genre dropped, no vol rescue needed), every genre resolves its sp_* ids into foundSources and emits 3-64 speech events, verify.sh (validate + engine + prove)…

▶ Play it: Magnetron Benediction → Hereinafter Forever → Riboflavin Rapture — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• dynamics AFTER the dedup -> invariants prove sees three-peats in the faded loudness (octopusminuet×strawberryfog, bramblestep×urchinmatinee);
• dynamics BEFORE the dedup -> the dedup's variation choices shift, drifting the drum features and tipping validate's 2-seed dominance on sludgemetal.
• The resolution is conceptual: the snare-law is a PATTERN promise (no ad-nauseam accent repeat); the dynamics envelope is LOUDNESS.

Verified: matrix 228/228 --no-cache, validate + engine + prove all PASS, segment-parity BYTE-EQUAL, drum swells intact (kick slams 0.640, hat swells 0.047 -> full).

▶ Play it: Molasses Avalanche → Hedge Maze Vespers → Doppler Orchard — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• The BACKBONE (kick / snare / clap / rim) slams in — floorIn 1, so a drop stays slammed — but still fades on the way OUT into a breakdown.
• The pitched voices are unchanged (their floors just moved into the [in,out] shape). A shared dynRuns() walks each lane's active runs once
• Measured on default_song: kick enters unchanged at 0.640 (slam preserved), hat swells 0.047 -> full over its entrance.

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — the genre that is mostly drums, so the kit has nowhere to hide

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• Add a renderer-stage dynamics pass (applyVoiceDynamics). A harmonic/melodic voice — pad, bass, melody
• Serves BOTH engines. Press hands the whole multi-section song, so the run edges are computed from state.sections + spans.
• Renderer-only — the symbolic verifier and musicality never see it, so the confusion matrix is untouched.
• (stem-parity's citypop_s7 error is pre-existing — identical before/after, the sampled-by-default re-pin already filed in NEXT.md.)

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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• Restore all twelve urls to their disk files: crt_whine, floppy_seek, hvac_hum, fax_tone, dryer_spin, chickadee, pigeon_coo, dw_cycle, ferment_bubble, crickets, hydrophone, whale_song.
• Two were also unwired entirely, and the bpm-matched `break` role silently drops a texture clip (no bpm to match), so a naive found.sources add is inert.
• Two honest notes, both in NEXT.md: (1) ~15 genres just gained their intended ambient beds — the matrix guards identity but only Paul's ear can say none sit too loud.

Verified: matrix 228/228 --no-cache, verify.sh (validate + engine + prove) green, affected genres (faxbossa, crtwave, thermostatwave, whalejazz, crickettempo, floppycore, laundrycore) live-render…

▶ Play it: Abort Retry Fail → Unbalanced Load → Stationary Weather — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• THE LIVE CADENCE AMPLIFIER (foundation). stepWalk feeds the engine a ONE-SECTION, one-cycle song per chord-bar, so buildEvents' sampleEvents pass saw every bar as both the first section (opener) and a section…
• sp_auction_1/2/3 -> auctioncore. "the auctioneer chant IS the genre," but the three speech clips were wired to nothing.
• modem_handshake -> dialupgabber. Root cause was url:"" — found/modem_handshake .mp3 was on disk but unfetchable, so the "screaming modem negotiation" the card sells never played.

Verified: matrix 228/228 --no-cache, verify.sh (validate + engine + prove) green, musicality green, explorer-ui + access-ui green, auctioncore/dialupgabber/ microwave live-render clean with zero…

▶ Play it: Going Going Gone → Magnetron Benediction → Carrier Lost — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• retargetWeights(weights, pt?) added to targeting.js; retarget(pt) now delegates to it (map behavior unchanged — explorer-ui green).
• Genre picker (all 228, with each card's blurb), explicit-percentage blend, journey builder (an ordered loop of stops), 8 labeled "shape" macro sliders, seed, mode, Play/Stop (Space toggles).
• Only the two DOM ids the imported modules touch at load (#boot, #bgChip) exist as inert aria-hidden stubs; panels.js/starmap.js are never imported.
• Discoverability: a focus-revealed .a11y-skip link at the top of index.html and an About-panel link. Fixed stale "178-genre" -> 228 copy in the About.

Verified: access-ui-run.js: the accessible-page gate (12 checks — all 228 genres, hold + A/B blend + journey with real audio, determinism, zero errors).

▶ Play it: Hadal Vespers → Antiphon Decay — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

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▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

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▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Smoke Arithmetic → Barometric Stampede — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

fbca2af · colophon · source

• insert_higain.dsp — the staged amp heavy genres deserved: tightness gate -> cascaded drive stages with inter-stage HP -> tone stack -> cab-sim -> DC blocker
• insert_fenv.dsp + a unified filter-envelope surface across 17 synth models (fenvAmount/fenvAttack/fenvDecay with consistent semantics
• Tempo-synced LFO slice (Part C): musical-division rates on the modulation surface, probe-proven (test/probe-lfo-sync.js).
• Plus the invariants finding: INSERT_DEFAULTS gains the granular entry — dubstep's declared "granular stutter clouds" can now actually fire (was dead 0/60 seeds).

▶ Play it: Seismic Ultimatum — parked on the genre this change names

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• The centerpiece is a real proof, not a sample: resolveMulti's scalar paths are weighted means (Sigma w = 1), so every blend is a convex combination of anchor endpoints
• The sweeps (seeded, deterministic, falsifiability-tested): totality over all anchors + 155,268 exhaustive state-level pair resolutions, constrain idempotence, duration-solver contract, snare-law's…
• Findings — the product: (1) bpm is consumer-UNBOUNDED (nothing clamps tempo anywhere; a bpm-300 anchor would sail through — filed)

Verified: verify.sh grows a fourth concurrent suite: prove (quick, ~15s; the wait loop learned to count to four).

▶ Play it: Seismic Ultimatum → Non Euclidean Court — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

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• SAMPLER REGISTER HOME — progressions voice leads at the synth-lead octave (midi 60-95) while sampled winds/ guitars/choirs top out at 81-86 — so phrase PEAKS folded down an octave at render and the climax inverted.
• The grow tie-break, one level down: pre-chorus and chorus are both "peak", so loop 1's energy-aware growth still stacked on the FIRST peak and pushed toastercore's hook 192 -> 224.
• BLOOM v1.2 design floors: four "stragglers" (standbylightdrive, singeli, bebop, walrusfuzz) were ON their form's designed proportions — the beat tables punished tempo/cycle geometry, not drag.

Verified: Matrix 228/228 --no-cache three times over; verify/meter/theory/ pipes/speech green; musicality suite grew to 24 gates; determinism byte-proven

▶ Play it: Dust Census → Confetti Escape Velocity → Ankle Velocity — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• Offline (press + stream + the wavOut MOBILE lane): the REAL dist/ insert_* Faust modules process each unit's pre-send mix whole-song (render-core's exact insert law, barSec tempo-sync included)
• The absent-law holds byte-exactly: no declared inserts = zero new processing (heavymetal/jazz/vaporwave presses byte-identical to HEAD)

Verified: harness repaired first: segment-parity pointed at the pre-diet tokyo_station.wav — green on HEAD before any change, then 9/9 byte-equal INCLUDING two new sampled-insert cases.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity → Neon Fiscal Year → Molten Horsepower — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• The default loop is now THREE nodes: centre (reads ~96% disco) -> lasertemple -> doomdrone — three forms, three kit families, an energy arc that closes back on the dance floor

Verified: simulate-path-run.js is the committed gate: the default loop must arrive everywhere within the contract, no musicality hard-fails, byte-deterministic

▶ Play it: Subduction Hymnal → Saltwater Reliquary → Collimated Chapel — the three genres this change names, as one path

bf5571c · colophon · source

• THE INTRO-DRAG WAS ONE LINE OF KERNEL — the duration solver's grow tie-break picked the first tied index, stacking ALL residual growth at the track's front
• THE ONE-DROP EXISTS — KITS grows `onedrop` — kick + cross-stick TOGETHER on beat 3, beat 1 empty, hats on the skank off-eighths.
• chalkvespers stops asking its choir for midi 107 (ceiling 87): new zero-rng anchor dimension `leadOctave` (dominant-parent pick, absent = byte-identical), chant at -2 — asks within the window now
• PRELUDE OPENS ON THE FIGURATION, BAR 1 (introMode off): the wave arrive-node held the first keyboard note out 37-101s (seed 3: 101s, bass at 202s).

▶ Play it: Third Beat Gravity → Dust Census → Confetti Escape Velocity — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• The blend-arrival fix's tiered flip queue kept a journey-scoped never-applied memory, cleared only on convergence — which never happens during continuous travel.
• Fix, ~3 lines: the never-applied memory clears when the DOMINANT genre changes, so each new neighborhood's identity flips (form / drum kit / lead voice) re-enter tier 0 and land within ~6 bars of dominance

Verified: transit-arrival-run.js is the committed contract (pre-fix FAIL confirmed): dnb lead arrival rel 16 -> 0, kit rel 18 -> 2, lead held 18 bars, 10 rhodes note() calls the first melody-on bar.

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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• REGISTER LAW — a catalog scan found 545 sampled lanes playing +12..+34 st above their top zone (a tuba solo at +33.8).
• Steel guitar (standbylightdrive): the anchor's lead level [.3,.42] was tuned for hot synth plucks; sampled-default remapped it to guitar multisamples AND (wet = send/lvl) inflated its own wash.
• Blues organ ("reedy and distant"): the anchor's deliberate B-3 (drawbars, leslie .85-.95, 3rd-harm perc) was being remapped to GM strings/reed organ — drawbar and rotary params no zone honors.
• Gabber's oboe: masked by design (healthy level under kick 1.7 + pump .68 at 175 bpm), not under-leveled — deferred to the MUSICALITY AUDIBLE audit with the honest options on record.

Verified: Matrix 228/228 --no-cache; fixture drift exactly the intended 10 state hashes (the two anchor fixes), mapping guards zero-drift

▶ Play it: Jackhammer Communion → Loon Referendum → Crossroads Paperwork — the three genres this change names, as one path

ec1c75b · colophon · source

• Fixes: (1) re-window on divergence — a ci>0 window with zero notes AND zero chops retries once on the first chord bar, an honest picture of the state now sounding, engine meta re-syncs next bar

Verified: L: a pure deterministic pre-fix-failing case (stale section + overflowed ci vs freshly-flipped state must still yield notes) plus a live house->prelude flip with the panel open

▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

dfe67c6 · colophon · source

• engine/musicality.js ships the symbolic half: BLOOM (per-part time-to-first-onset against per-FORM bounds
• Reggae's kick-on-three promise measured FALSE at the state level — its kit pool has no one-drop (kick lands on 1); the transition fix was necessary but the card still lies.
• The worst-10 is SYSTEMIC, not individual: pop/drop form intros hold drums out ~2 sections (beat 62 vs bound 32) across ten genres
• chalkvespers asks its choir 20 semitones above its natural ceiling. Baseline: 19 OK / 209 WARN / 0 FAIL; no never-sounding parts; all three seed promises hold.

▶ Play it: Third Beat Gravity → Antiphon Decay — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

c055517 · colophon · source

▶ read how a song is made — the drawn pipeline itself

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• And the pace: fixing blend-arrival made flips actually LAND, so the old default (128 bars/leg) suddenly read "way too fast" — default is now 256 and the slider is LOG-SCALE to 4096 (2^4..2^12

▶ Play it: The Turning Stair — parked on the genre this change names

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• Crush-family MIND_OVERRIDES per the sludgemetal precedent: longshipwhip pipes:[] (the wall answers nobody), bogironwallow sweepArc-only (the reese earns its slow swell)
• POS re-baked for 228 (51s relaxation once, 651ms boot; fugue re-nudged for D2e; three under-floor pairs nudged to a 106.6 min sep). how.html counts follow.
• The genre space: 178 at dawn, 228 at close — classical, the eras, synth gods, prog, motown/funk, metal/nordic, all ridiculous, all verified.

▶ Play it: Soprano Ballistics → Heptagram Vamp → Whiteout Psalter — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• journey-crash-run: the h._pools hook died with the pool scheduler in 1648ad7; the probe now reads the ring handle's honest nodeCount().

Verified: live-resilience full PASS x2 (all legs — previously failing), journey-crash PASS, wavout (incl. stepDown/mmsStall demotions), live-test, bg-survival, explorer-ui, verify.sh all green.

▶ Play it: Highway Heat Death — where the synthesis is the identity, not the decoration

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• salondawdle and greasepaintoompah are the meters program's first production users: meter:{beats:3,unit:4}, waltz/waltzswing kits, waltzroot and oompahpah bass, chordEvery 12/6.
• POS re-baked for 212 (fugue re-nudged by grid search under the D2e gate's own constraints — cloisterloom/prelude now its neighborhood); boot fast-path 553ms; how.html counts follow

▶ Play it: Actuarial Cabaret → Ottoman Heat Death → The Turning Stair — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• Seven specs took damps, all at the spec (never a hand-edited TARGETS row): bpm-band nudges (hexagonstampede off canawave/disco, walrusfuzz off disco), verify-feature fences (sub/bedUse/crackle/seventh/…
• Pipeline note for future cycles: validate's "loses to X" names the RUNNER-UP, not the argmax — score the new row directly before blaming the named genre.
• POS re-baked for 202 (35.9s relaxation once, 690ms boot after; fugue re-nudged to keep prelude 2nd-nearest — the D2e gate); how.html counts follow.

▶ Play it: Pinniped Overload → Benzene Cavalry → Tambourine Equinox — the three genres this change names, as one path

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▶ Play it: Seance Cakewalk → Smoke Arithmetic → The Turning Stair — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• 1. Drum sections never turned ON: the "drum kit" flip only rewrote sections whose drums were already playing — from an all-drums-off genre it was a no-op that erased its own diff
• 2. And when they finally turned on, they were mute: the "sample" flip replaced foundSources wholesale but zone-carried only pad/bass/melody
• Plus the sync residue: topology crossfades re-anchored the beat grid mid-bar while old native notes rang across the new downbeat

Verified: blend-arrival-run.js is the committed contract: parked on reggae after fugue — drums within 3 bars (was: never), kit/lead/bpm within 7 (was: ~118), fugue side unregressed, RMS real, zero…

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

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• classical (10): chalkvespers (chant), salondawdle (Satie), candlegauze (Debussy), cloisterloom (Tallis's 40 voices), miasmarow (Schoenberg/Scriabin), greasepaintoompah (Weill), urchinmatinee (showtunes)…
• the Liverpool eras (8): moptoprattle, meadowjangle, strawberryfog, octopusminuet, walrusfuzz, rooftopholler, submarinelullaby, tangerinearcade
• synth gods (8): androidlament (Vangelis), lasertemple (Jarre), oscillatorminuet (Carlos), cometwhistle (Tomita), chromepiston (Moroder), patchcordmirage (Tangerine Dream), velourregatta (Winwood MOR)…
• prog (8): wizardcape, meadowmellotron, hexagonstampede, crimsoncourt, moonlagoon, sliderule, crumpetwhirl, polygonforge

▶ Play it: Decommission Hymn → Cairn Respiration → Theropod Liturgy — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• Export, first slice: the ⚙ panel gains ⤓ midi / ⤓ wav / ⤓ mp3 for the current song, named from the chyron's invented band identity.

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

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• The ⚡ CPU meter box is removed (DOM, CSS, 1Hz ticker, its screenshot probe); the engine's load/eco machinery is untouched and still reads out in the chyron tech line.
• Inside-the-sound overhaul: the voice timeline is ALWAYS 8 cells — chordEvery-16/32 genres fold into stacked rows instead of shrinking (mobile was cramped)
• Background exclusivity: the video/demo alternator was XOR-correct all along — three BYPASS paths stacked the layers: the ⚙ panel's video button toggled VideoLayer directly (under the demo canvas's…
• (panels.js also carries the export cluster's ⤓ buttons — committed with their engine half in the next commit's story; kept here because the file merges both agents' work.)

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

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▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — the genre built out of recorded and synthesized voices

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• Production-verified end to end: headless chromium parked the travel loop on transitwave at https://stellate.app

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — parked on the genre this change names

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• Determinism, the hard way: SetRandSeed is not exported and espeak's wavegen consumes rand(), so same-instance repeats drift
• Wired additively at both engines: found-player synthToBuffer feeds the same url-keyed buffer cache; live's ring + wavOut speech paths and press's decode loop all branch on src.synthText
• The worked example: when a state carries real transitwave presence (weight >= .35), the PA announces THIS seed's namebank act — "Now arriving: The Signalmen."
• Licensing: NOTICE gains a combined-work section (deliberately NOT the lamejs LGPL carve-out shape

Verified: test/speech.test.js (synth determinism, upsampler exactness, key canon, false-path, namebank-text determinism), test/speech-live- run.js (chromium rides transitwave 6 bars…

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — parked on the genre this change names

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• Production-verified: headless chromium rode vaporwave on live stellate.app — crossOriginIsolated, MP3 beds fetched 200 + decoded, maxRms 0.207, zero errors.

▶ Play it: Food Court Eternity — parked on the genre this change names

bffe430 · colophon · source

• Every touchpoint from the §3 list, plus the ones the grep law caught beyond it: found-manifest.json values, both fetch recipes, the speech/tw_vocal literals in genre-kernel, press.js's bed fallback (now…
• New committed gate: test/mp3-bed-decode-run.js — headless chromium parks the travel loop on spokenword and rides 5 bars against the COOP/COEP server, asserting real RMS, found/vx_ginsberg*.mp3 fetched 200 +…

▶ Play it: Dial Tone Prophet — parked on the genre this change names

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• tools/deploy-stellate.sh makes the deploy repeatable and the server disposable: MEDIA_MANIFEST immutable-invariant check (ABORTS on a changed hash under an unchanged name) -> rsync with the §5 deny-list…

Verified: in production by headless chromium: crossOriginIsolated, SharedArrayBuffer live, star map drawn, how.html 200, and a real ride on the SAB ring engine

▶ read how a song is made — the drawn pipeline itself

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• Docs alignment: README and CLAUDE.md finish the STELLATE rename, gain Open source + how.html + HOSTING pointers, and the submodule leaves the golden setup path (optional; public clones run without it).

▶ read how a song is made — the drawn pipeline itself

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• LICENSE — MIT (c) 2026 Paul Ford, except-as-noted-in-NOTICE.
• NOTICE — MicroW8 (Unlicense), lamejs (LGPL-3.0 carve-out), faustwasm (LGPL-2.1+, npm dep — its soundfile patch rescued into engine/faust/patches/ so it survives npm ci), Faust stdlib generated-code credit…
• SOURCES.md — "The media policy" up top: three bright-line tiers (free / attribution-encumbered fetch-only / unlicensed-commercial never-redistributed), and the ledger's frankest rows made frank (the sample CD…
• CONTRIBUTING.md — the social contract: the one rule, the gates a PR must keep green (178/178 matrix, determinism byte-identity, vocabulary), per-contribution-type guidance (anchors matrix-safe, pipes bring…

Verified: verify.sh — media guard: fails if any audio/video/model binary is ever tracked (the one rule, now enforced).

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments

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• The ? chip grows from an instructions toggle into a real about layer: what stellate is, how to play (the old .sub text migrated, corrected), made by Aboard, the GitHub repo, MIT
• Explorer-UI gate extended: the about layer's links and how.html's reachability + genre count are pinned assertions.

▶ read how a song is made — the drawn pipeline itself

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▶ Play it: Highway Heat Death — where the synthesis is the identity, not the decoration

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• engine/theory.js (CsdTheory) — the harmony brain: modes, minimal- motion voice leading (close/open/drop2/quartal/cluster), and a functional-harmony progression generator whose `adventure` knob gates diatonic…
• engine/pipes.js (CsdPipes) — the scheduler as pipes: state.pipes runs ten composable seeded transforms (harmonize, echoCanon, strum, ghost, callResponse, densityArc, sweepArc, vibratoSwell, throwFx…
• rhythm intelligence — new clave/cell bass vocabulary (tresillo, son, hemiola, charleston), per-cycle bass-cell mutation, and melody rhythm cells (dotted pairs / tresillo / 3-3-2), all under state.rhythm…
• The genre space grows the axes: deriveMind() infers every anchor's theory/pipes/rhythm from what it already declares (progression pool -> adventure/color, kit pool -> complexity, models -> pipes), with an…

▶ Play it: Vocoder Ambassador → Anechoic Census → Undertow Sock Hop — the three genres this change names, as one path

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▶ Play it: Mercury Interrogation — where the harmony organ has the least anywhere to hide

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• tools/fetch-sample-cd.sh <item> <zip> <prefix> — download → extract → mono 44.1k → trim silence + loudnorm → drop near-empty → classify → rename by detected metadata → found/samples/<prefix>/ + manifest + a…
• tools/classify-sample-cd.py — numpy/scipy analyzer (no librosa/aubio): YIN pitch+clarity, onset-autocorrelation BPM, spectral centroid → loop/tonal/ oneshot/chop.
• Documented as "Incorporating a sample CD" in CLAUDE.md.
• Skip to My Loops: 42 curated samples registered in genre-kernel SAMPLES (34 breakbeat loops with detected bpm, 5 vocal/funk chops, 3 one-shot hits), wired MATRIX-SAFELY into 17 genres

▶ Play it: Congregation Furnace → Downbeat Notary → Airhorn Apocrypha — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• Fix: draw every STAR always, but a NAME only if its box clears the names already placed at the current zoom. Active (weighted) genres always win a slot; the rest fill greedily in a stable order.

Verified: desktop 1200×850 → all 178 labels, 0 overlaps, 42px gap, gate PASS; mobile 430×900 → 131 names shown, 0 drawn-label overlaps (was 180+).

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede — the genre that is mostly drums, so the kit has nowhere to hide

1e0e2c3 · colophon · source

• Bake it: POS in world.js now ships the full relaxed 178-genre layout, precomputed once at a 1200×850 reference viewport.
• Subtlety fixed along the way: the relaxation's normalize keys off the SEED's median spacing, which is much denser once every genre is seeded
• The spread itself is unchanged: 42px min label gap, 0 overlaps, clusters intact (fugue next to prelude), min pairwise 194 > floor.

Verified: 178/178 placed, 0 overlaps, 42.2px gap, D2e PASS.

▶ Play it: The Turning Stair → The Patient Chase — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point

fc567a4 · colophon · source

• Widened the relaxation's separation targets: MIN_DOT 52->72 (guaranteed dot spacing at default zoom) plus a per-label SEP moat, and strengthened the similarity spring (0.012->0.014, active longer) so clusters…
• Note for the record: the layout measures a monospace font for determinism, but labels render in VT323, which measures ~0.66x as wide

Verified: 178/178 placed, 0 overlaps, 42px min gap, D2e clusters intact, PASS.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

9895568 · colophon · source

• royal-road.csd — the founding score (archived; still the origin story)
• tools/render.sh — the csound renderer
• tools/render-sung-melody.js — csound-dependent one-off (unreferenced)
• engine/faust/legacy-tools/ — the csound A/B harness (needs csound + buildCsd, both gone from main; its results live on in docs/history/ab-report.md, and the harness is recoverable from git history)

Verified: matrix 178/178, validate --quick PASS, engine ALL PASS.

▶ Play it: Rail Replacement Rapture — a bed-heavy genre where the found-sound layer carries the room

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• Result: 178/178 placed, 0 label overlaps, min gap 19.2px, explorer-ui gate PASS. Deterministic (no randomness); sub-second at boot; maps under 60 genres unchanged.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

8fb45e0 · colophon · source

• Root-uniqueness guard (the taste fix): an unbounded flood otherwise decays into name-mush -- four vendingmachine* genres, magmastrut+magmastomp -- because the vectors stay verifier-distinct long after the…
• Every invented genre still earns its own verifier diagonal without knocking a neighbor off theirs (per-seed forward+backward gate across seeds 1-5), and the names correlate to character (tundradoom = cold sub…

Verified: matrix 178/178 diagonal-dominant (zero off-diagonal), validate --quick PASS (178 anchors, 0 dangling), determinism byte-stable, no duplicate keys, renders non-silent with names correlating.

▶ Play it: Congregation Furnace → Downbeat Notary → Basalt Swagger — the three genres this change names, as one path

138c41c · colophon · source

• 8 accepted at seed 7 (7 rejected for colliding with existing columns -- the honest signal that the far gaps are real but finite): picnicswing, rosinamblelilt, subwooferbalm, sepiadrive, moltenhouse, sparkbreak…
• genre-tool.js refactored to export measure/derive/splice behind a require.main guard so the new tool reuses the proven machinery. inventGenreName added to namebank.js.

Verified: matrix 118/118 diagonal-dominant (zero off-diagonal), validate --quick PASS, engine smoke ALL PASS, 6 renders non-silent with names correlating.

▶ Play it: Gingham Event Horizon → Prize Inside → Rosin Parallax — the three genres this change names, as one path

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• Wired the hits already sampled in every kit but never played: clap, crash, ride, rim — added to DRUMKITS + both kit builders + new state-engine voices (sampled from the kit, synth fallback).
• Extracted the wider GM percussion (sf2.js new `percbank` command, bank-128): all 24 hits clean — sideStick/clap/tambourine/cowbell/vibraslap/bongos/congas/…
• Per-genre PERC lane (~35 genres, PERC_STYLES + a beat-gated perc pass in buildEvents on its own rng stream): shaker+congas+agogo for afro/latin/tropical, rim+shaker+clave for bossa/tango, ride+rim for…
• Perc is timbral color, kept verifier-INVISIBLE (matrix measures core kit only) — so matrix stays 110/110 byte-unchanged, zero anchor retuning.

Verified: matrix 110/110, validate, engine, segment-parity BYTE-EQUAL (house claps + jazz ride/rim), all-sampled, wavout-seam, live-resilience; perc-heavy peaks -2.1 to -4.4 dBFS (no clip).

▶ Play it: Smoke Arithmetic → Congregation Furnace → Mirrorball Panopticon — the three genres this change names, as one path

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Verified: genre-viz (full fx line beneath, no stacked pills) + explorer-ui green.

▶ Play it: Neon Fiscal Year → Benthic Patience → Silken Reentry — a constellation across three families — the path is the mix

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