notespatial: written for the ears inside the ring — bass below the speaker, placeable echoes, a theme that hops master
The audience sits among laptop speakers and nobody but the performer is at the center, so three things the September 22 score assumed were not true in the room: a laptop passes little under 200 Hz (the bass, oom, creep, kick body and last low C ran 65 to 147 Hz), a sound crossfaded between two seats reaches an off-center listener from the nearer one first (11.7 ms across a 4 m difference, past the 1 to 5 ms fusion window) and 14 dB louder, so the orbiting theme was a jump at a moment set by where you sat; and a single sine without a transient cannot be placed in a room (Hartmann 1983), which is what the echoes and the travelling theme were. chamber-platter digest 05 (hearing inside the ring) states the psychoacoustics with sources — precedence and echo thresholds, onsets and the placeable tone, minimum audible movement angle and rotation limits, spatial release from masking, distance compression, residue pitch, laptop roll-off — as nine numbered rules, and chamber study 05 audits the eleven chapters against them. The composer follows them: bassNote() gives every low root its octave and twelfth; kick() gets a click and its second harmonic; echoes and the travelling theme carry an octave above 1.5 kHz; the theme and the answer hop (five pinned lanes each, a note written whole to the seat nearest its orbit at onset, leaving the hands for seat 1 and walking clockwise one seat per 2.5 s; --glide rebuilds the old orbits); the walk keeps to the two seats across from the tune; the Chase holds each seat two eighths once an eighth is under 200 ms. Length unchanged at 12:54, 10,185 of 10,185 events voice, peak polyphony 26 of 32, routing tests pass. The arrangement sheet gains the center-level rule (set from seat 3 or 4, about +9.5 dB at 3 m), the performer's walk toward the rear pair during center-only passages, the drift budget (15 to 39 ms by the Vanish; re-cue VIII and X past 20 ms) and a pink-noise check of one seat's bass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>