Narration draft 01 #

Voice: Jeffrey PVC, neutral:0. Read as an introduction to a collective object, not a review or ranking. Names and titles follow the blue colophon and official event page.

Timing: 254 words. Approximately 1:42 at 150 wpm, 1:57 at 130 wpm, before brief title pauses. Target a 1:50–2:00 finished reel by letting visual overlaps absorb the pauses rather than holding every page in isolation.

Continuous read #

This blue folder just arrived from Social Software at UCLA. Inside is Scores for Social Software, a spring 2026 edition of sixty-four. The copy in my hands is number fifty-one, assembled after ten weeks of making, testing, and performing together.

My contribution is Notepat. A folded white user manual opens into a pointed shape, combining an illustrated player, a QR code, instructions, and circular keyboard diagrams.

Æther Cavendish’s Vigil Score arrives as a matte-black folded packet, closed with a small circular silver seal.

Chelly Jin’s Software as a Choreography presents a grid of silhouetted hands and arms, pairing each gesture with marks for timing and movement.

Jordan Silver’s Sonic Architecture is a single sheet of printed columns, large numbers, and typewritten commands, anchored by a looping spiral diagram for inhabiting and measuring space through sound.

Em Lugo’s Cues for Losing Direction fits on a small black card, its title set in pale condensed type like a portable instruction carried in the hand.

Darlyn Phan’s Line Piece 1 begins on translucent white paper. Its faint rainbow cast and minimal title let the page behave like a line or veil.

Thomas Noya’s Biophonía is a branching field of blue, yellow, black, and beige organic forms. In the video, these cell-like clusters drift and reorganize.

Banyi Huang’s A Cosmographic Score for Folding Back into the Kernel centers a luminous circle and a small diagram of connected nodes inside a lavender field.

Alexander Espinosa’s Music for World Computers is a white typographic score: awake, expand, decrease, oxygen, forest, junk, cinnamon, hammer.

Mavyn Vu’s The Radio Is an Altar: Portal combines translucent blue and white score cards, a target-like radio image, small figures, and instructions arranged around their edges.

Casey Reas facilitated the cycle, with Lauren Lee McCarthy and the Social Software community. Together, the contributions open many paths through a question: if software organizes behavior, what else can we ask it to organize?

Caption-safe beats #

Accuracy notes #

The descriptions above are deliberately short and concrete, but beats 03 and 05–11 remain provisional until the full page text, presentation transcript, email context, or participant confirmation is ingested. Do not record the final voice master until those sentences are verified.