{
  "id": "holosem-007",
  "title": "Before the name",
  "date": "2026-09-24",
  "version": "1.0",
  "kind": "Prescriptive relational score",
  "premise": "A place can change to welcome unlike presences before their nature is understood.",
  "presences": [
    {
      "id": "gathered",
      "label": "Gathered",
      "colour": "#c3d9b2",
      "anchor": [
        258,
        245
      ],
      "form": "One continuous folded path",
      "wave": "sine",
      "pitchesHz": [
        220,
        293.664768,
        261.625565
      ],
      "onsetsSeconds": [
        0,
        0.45,
        0.9,
        2.4,
        2.85,
        3.3,
        4.8,
        5.25,
        5.7,
        7.2,
        7.65,
        8.1
      ],
      "noteSeconds": 0.65
    },
    {
      "id": "distributed",
      "label": "Distributed",
      "colour": "#91c8d5",
      "anchor": [
        796,
        258
      ],
      "form": "A field of disconnected points, sounding in chords",
      "wave": "sine",
      "pitchesHz": [
        329.627557,
        391.995436,
        493.883301
      ],
      "onsetsSeconds": [
        0.6,
        3.7,
        6.8
      ],
      "noteSeconds": 1.8
    },
    {
      "id": "elsewhere",
      "label": "Elsewhere",
      "colour": "#dfb18d",
      "anchor": [
        580,
        505
      ],
      "form": "Two long paths continuing beyond the frame",
      "wave": "triangle",
      "pitchesHz": [
        164.813778,
        246.941651
      ],
      "onsetsSeconds": [
        1.5,
        5.6
      ],
      "noteSeconds": 2.5
    }
  ],
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "arrival",
      "label": "At the edge",
      "room": "small",
      "present": [
        "gathered",
        "distributed",
        "elsewhere"
      ],
      "sharedObject": false,
      "relations": [],
      "nextAction": "Make room",
      "verse": [
        "Three arrivals.",
        "The room was built for none of them."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "welcome",
      "label": "Room enough",
      "room": "expanded",
      "present": [
        "gathered",
        "distributed",
        "elsewhere"
      ],
      "sharedObject": false,
      "relations": [],
      "nextAction": "Place a light",
      "verse": [
        "I moved the walls.",
        "No one had to change their shape."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "together",
      "label": "Beside a light",
      "room": "expanded",
      "present": [
        "gathered",
        "distributed",
        "elsewhere"
      ],
      "sharedObject": true,
      "relations": [
        [
          "gathered",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "distributed",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "elsewhere",
          "light"
        ]
      ],
      "nextAction": "Let them leave",
      "verse": [
        "For a while, we had this:",
        "a light, and different ways of being beside it."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "after",
      "label": "Afterwards",
      "room": "expanded",
      "present": [],
      "sharedObject": true,
      "relations": [],
      "rememberedRelations": [
        [
          "gathered",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "distributed",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "elsewhere",
          "light"
        ]
      ],
      "nextAction": "Begin again",
      "verse": [
        "They left.",
        "The room kept its extra sky."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "Welcoming changes the room, never a presence's shape, pitch, rhythm or location.",
    "Shared attention adds three relations to one light; it never merges the presences.",
    "Following a presence changes visual emphasis and gain only. Every present voice retains its timing and pitch.",
    "Departure removes present voices. Dashed relations afterwards are traces of the encounter, not continued presence.",
    "The expanded room survives departure. Beginning again resets the whole encounter."
  ],
  "rendering": {
    "visual": {
      "viewBox": [
        0,
        0,
        1080,
        680
      ],
      "light": [
        540,
        325
      ],
      "smallRoom": [
        420,
        285,
        240,
        130
      ],
      "expandedRoom": [
        128,
        118,
        824,
        480
      ],
      "roomDoorGap": [
        482,
        598
      ],
      "focusOtherOpacity": 0.38,
      "pointsRule": "27 points: x=anchorX+sin(i*2.39)*(30+(i%5)*14); y=anchorY+cos(i*1.71)*(25+(i%4)*15); radius=2.8+(i%3)*1.3"
    },
    "sound": {
      "durationSeconds": 10,
      "defaultVolume": 0.4,
      "maximumVolume": 0.8,
      "togetherGain": 0.1,
      "focusedGain": 0.14,
      "otherGain": 0.035,
      "attackSeconds": 0.08,
      "endFadeSeconds": 0.25,
      "distributedChordGainDivisor": 3,
      "pitchRule": "Gathered and Elsewhere cycle through their pitches by onset index; Distributed sounds all three pitches at every onset.",
      "playback": "User-initiated, one performance per click, no loop or autoplay. Changing stage or focus stops the current performance. Afterwards is silent."
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Bilious Blue",
      "collection": "Viking Kite",
      "reading": "Emma recognises her friend before a familiar body is adopted. Borrowed perspective and direct sensation differ."
    },
    {
      "title": "Bee-Bop and Zee",
      "collection": "Viking Kite",
      "reading": "A companion can be locally held in a balloon and also distributed through a world. Friendship develops through shared activity."
    },
    {
      "title": "The Still Feather",
      "collection": "Viking Kite",
      "reading": "Care precedes explanation. Meeora treats different minds as differently able, and ordinary human things can astonish her."
    }
  ],
  "translation": {
    "visualLoses": "A drawn boundary and a line of shared attention cannot establish that a welcome was felt or that an encounter was reciprocal.",
    "soundLoses": "The music preserves distinct timings and pitches, but cannot by itself communicate hospitality, a room, departure or personhood.",
    "wordsLose": "The words give the encounter a speaker and a sequence that the simultaneous forms do not require."
  },
  "boundary": "An original artistic response to three stories, not a theory or test of consciousness. The presences are authored patterns. The source stories are not reproduced."
}