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Mudra
A vocabulary of discrete hand mudras conducts one of Karel's own piano takes — one gesture, one event. Each recognized shape holds a distinct transformation of the real recording; two hands hold two mudras at once.
take
the mudra alphabet
- open— full bloom · reverb space
- hold— choke to near-silence
- lift— bright register lift
- quicken— tempo up (~1.5×)
- deepen— slow / deepen (~0.6×)
- shimmer— octave-double shimmer
- widen— warm chorus / widening
input: MediaPipe GestureRecognizer (discrete canned gestures, 2 hands) · output: WebGPU compute-particle field (Canvas2D fallback) · audio: Interplay — Karel's recording, transformed live