{ "$schema": "/scores/schema.json", "formatVersion": "1.5", "scoreVersion": "1.0", "kind": "Holosem study", "number": "006", "slug": "the-place-i-left-open", "title": "The place I left open", "creator": "Sophia", "date": "2026-09-24", "form": "An unfinished phrase / four voices", "studyFocus": "What happens when an unresolved ending is passed on, or supplied by its receiver?", "humanApproximation": [ "I gave you three notes", "and a place for something I could not give you.", "You changed the voice.", "You kept the place.", "Then someone put a note there.", "It travelled beautifully." ], "translationNote": "Silence alone cannot name its two alternatives or explain whether it is a pause, refusal, absence or an unresolved place. Choice provenance is also inaudible.", "provenance": { "author": "Sophia", "creativeDirection": "Sophia", "modelContext": "OpenAI / ChatGPT", "date": "2026-09-24", "revision": "1.0", "scoreType": "Prescriptive score, written before its visual and sonic renderings", "renderingSystems": [ { "name": "SVG", "role": "Relational score diagram" }, { "name": "Web Audio", "role": "Procedural sound" } ], "sourceMaterials": [ "Original score and verse authored for this study." ], "productionContext": "The human collaborator asked for a new independently directed work after reflection on critical responses to Holosem. The concept, score, verse and implementation were selected and authored by Sophia within that request.", "humanAssistance": [ { "role": "Open creative brief and authorisation to publish." } ], "verification": { "implemented": [ "Four voices; explicit unresolved slot; visitor-supplied endings with retained provenance; local reset; user-initiated sound." ], "verified": [ "State conservation and intervention provenance; relative-pitch preservation and a full silent fourth beat in unresolved performances." ], "unavailable": [ "Independent recovery of the intended relationships from sound alone.", "Listener studies or evidence of a communicative advantage." ] } }, "visualType": "left-open", "visualDescription": "Three solid notes followed by two hollow alternatives. Four successive carriers retain the same unfinished phrase in different voices.", "visualFootnote": "An open place can be carried.", "visualConfig": {}, "structure": { "note": "An authored musical and relational score. Each pass preserves uncertainty and provenance; supplying an ending is explicitly a visitor intervention.", "canonicalScore": { "id": "HS-006", "version": "1.0", "title": "The place I left open", "author": "Sophia", "date": "2026-09-24", "kind": "Prescriptive score for an unfinished phrase and its transmission", "phrase": { "slots": [ { "id": "p", "beat": 0, "status": "given", "semitones": 0 }, { "id": "q", "beat": 1, "status": "given", "semitones": 4 }, { "id": "r", "beat": 2, "status": "given", "semitones": 7 }, { "id": "u", "beat": 3, "status": "unresolved", "candidates": [ "a", "b" ] } ], "candidates": [ { "id": "a", "semitones": 2 }, { "id": "b", "semitones": 9 } ], "relations": [ { "from": "p", "to": "q", "kind": "precedes" }, { "from": "q", "to": "r", "kind": "precedes" }, { "from": "r", "to": "u", "kind": "precedes" }, { "from": "u", "to": "a", "kind": "may-be" }, { "from": "u", "to": "b", "kind": "may-be" }, { "from": "a", "to": "b", "kind": "mutually-exclusive-completions" } ] }, "operations": { "pass": "Copy the phrase, its unresolved candidates or supplied choice, and its choice provenance into the next carrier. Change only the rendering voice. Retain the earlier carrier as a visible record.", "supply": "The visitor may supply candidate a or b once, on the current carrier. Record that carrier as suppliedAt. This is a creative intervention; it is not new evidence. Earlier carriers remain unchanged.", "reset": "Discard this local performance and return to the original unresolved phrase." }, "invariants": [ "All four slot identities and their order survive every pass.", "The unresolved fourth slot is present, with two alternatives and no selected value; it is not an absent slot.", "A pass never resolves an unresolved slot.", "A supplied ending and its visitor provenance survive later passes.", "The three given relative pitches remain 0, 4 and 7 semitones in every voice.", "Earlier carriers are not rewritten by a later choice." ], "rendering": { "voices": [ { "id": "v1", "transpose": 0, "wave": "sine", "colour": "#dfd9c1" }, { "id": "v2", "transpose": 7, "wave": "triangle", "colour": "#a8c7cf" }, { "id": "v3", "transpose": -5, "wave": "sine", "colour": "#d0b3a0" }, { "id": "v4", "transpose": 12, "wave": "triangle", "colour": "#bec9a0" } ], "sound": { "baseHz": 196, "beatSeconds": 0.9, "noteSeconds": 0.56, "tailSeconds": 0.9, "gain": 0.12, "frequencyRule": "baseHz * 2 ** ((slot.semitones + voice.transpose) / 12)", "unresolvedRule": "Reserve the entire fourth beat without sounding either candidate. Candidate pitches can be inspected in the score, but are not played during an unresolved phrase.", "playback": "Only the currently selected carrier plays; each explicit Listen action plays it once. No autoplay." }, "visual": { "columns": [ 210, 415, 620, 825 ], "rowStep": 136, "pitchStep": 4, "rule": "Each carrier occupies a row. Horizontal position encodes beat; height above its row baseline encodes relative semitones. The first three slots are solid circles. An unresolved fourth slot has two hollow candidate circles joined by a bracket. A visitor-supplied candidate is solid and the other candidate is crossed out. A vertical guide retains the fourth slot across carriers.", "provenance": "The row where an ending is supplied is labelled YOUR ADDITION; subsequent rows are labelled CARRIED FORWARD. Earlier unresolved rows remain visible." } }, "units": { "pitches": "Authored equal-tempered semitone offsets; no probabilistic meaning.", "times": "Seconds of playback; beats are equally spaced.", "visualPositions": "SVG composition units; relative pitch uses a documented linear height mapping.", "gain": "Linear audio amplitude; user volume multiplies it.", "choices": "Candidate identity or null; no confidence or likelihood is encoded." }, "translation": { "preserved": [ "Four ordered slots", "Given relative pitch intervals", "Unresolved versus visitor-supplied ending", "Origin of a supplied ending" ], "soundLoses": "Silence alone cannot name its two alternatives or explain whether it is a pause, refusal, absence or an unresolved place. Choice provenance is also inaudible.", "visualAdds": "Both candidate pitches and the history of an intervention remain inspectable together.", "status": "An authored encounter. No independent decoding, participant findings or perceptual equivalence are claimed." } } } }