DISSONANCE
Two readings of the same truth. Headphones recommended.
Left ear: THE METRONOME — Right ear: THE COMPASS
THE METRONOME
Measures your velocity, acceleration, rhythm, stillness.
It hears pattern and tempo. Regularity is consonance.
Chaos is dissonance. It doesn't care where you go —
only how you move.
It hears pattern and tempo. Regularity is consonance.
Chaos is dissonance. It doesn't care where you go —
only how you move.
THE COMPASS
Measures your approach, retreat, proximity, orbit.
It hears geometry and relationship. Dwelling is warmth.
Distance is cold. It doesn't care how fast you move —
only where you are relative to it.
It hears geometry and relationship. Dwelling is warmth.
Distance is cold. It doesn't care how fast you move —
only where you are relative to it.
THE BIND
Move rhythmically toward one — the Metronome is satisfied,
but the Compass reads sustained approach as threat.
Stay still nearby — the Compass feels dwelling warmth,
but the Metronome hears silence as absence.
You cannot make both happy. That is the point.
but the Compass reads sustained approach as threat.
Stay still nearby — the Compass feels dwelling warmth,
but the Metronome hears silence as absence.
You cannot make both happy. That is the point.
CONTROLS
WASD / Arrows — move
SHIFT — slow movement
M — toggle sound
SPACE — restart
R — replay
METRIC AUDIO (LEFT)
Rhythmic pulses. Square wave clicks. Quantized ticks.
Tempo = your speed. Beat regularity = your pattern consistency.
Bandpass filter opens on regularity, narrows on chaos.
The Metronome counts your beats.
Tempo = your speed. Beat regularity = your pattern consistency.
Bandpass filter opens on regularity, narrows on chaos.
The Metronome counts your beats.
HARMONIC AUDIO (RIGHT)
Sustained tones. Intervals shift with valence.
Minor seconds when threatened. Perfect fifths when at ease.
Warm pad on dwelling. Long reverb on retreat.
The Compass measures your distance.
Minor seconds when threatened. Perfect fifths when at ease.
Warm pad on dwelling. Long reverb on retreat.
The Compass measures your distance.
CONVERGENCE
When both entities briefly agree, audio drifts toward center.
A detuned unison emerges — beating, eerie, unstable.
Agreement is not resolution. It's the moment two incompatible
perspectives accidentally land on the same wrong answer.
A detuned unison emerges — beating, eerie, unstable.
Agreement is not resolution. It's the moment two incompatible
perspectives accidentally land on the same wrong answer.
Expectation Modulation Research — Stage 6.
What ECHO proved with one entity, DISSONANCE proves with two:
the same behavior, heard by different listeners, becomes different truths.
Can a person be two things at once?
What ECHO proved with one entity, DISSONANCE proves with two:
the same behavior, heard by different listeners, becomes different truths.
Can a person be two things at once?