- c25440Lead Time✓ localWhat if Karel's piano responded to where your hand is about to be — ~120 ms into your future — so the music leads your gesture instead of lagging it, and your own predictability be→
- c25160Inner Ear✓ localEyes closed, headphones on: one of Karel's real recordings is split into three perceptual voices and HRTF-panned onto a dome around your head, and your body sculpts where it lives.→
- c25120Tunnelward✓ localOne question: what if one of Karel's quietest piano takes carried you down a receding tunnel toward an emerging warm light — his music driving the descent, your hands steering and →
- c25040Cascade✓ localWhat if Karel's piano became a body of liquid light with a continuous surface — and the fluid's currents *generated* the sound, grain by grain, rather than filtering a loop? Cascad→
- c24840Stillwell✓ localWhat if a piece rewarded stillness instead of motion — a warm cosmic-ambient field that is agitated and scattered while you move, and slowly coalesces into a single still luminous →
- c24680Chromafield✓ localChromafield turns one of Karel's real piano takes into a living chemistry you grow with your body. A Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion membrane is simulated on the GPU — two reagents A→
- c24600Stillpoint✓ local> *What if Resonance were something you do with your eyes closed — your body > turns and leans to navigate a 3D binaural field of Karel's piano, and the > screen is almost dark bec→
- c24360Duet✓ localWhat if two people in one camera frame could conduct one of Karel's piano takes together — and their *togetherness* (gesture sync) is the reward?→
- c24120Foreshadow✓ local*What if Karel's piano's next harmony arrived as felt WEATHER, not a readout?*→
- c23680Ember Field✓ localA warm room you stand inside for ten minutes. Karel's piano becomes a slow, breathing ember-cloud — tens of thousands of embers advected through a curl-noise flow field — that you →
- c23440The Membrane That Filters the Piano✓ localA large mass-spring membrane (a pinned grid of ~10,000 nodes) is simulated entirely on the GPU with WebGPU compute shaders, and its emergent physical state becomes the filter shapi→
- c23120Sever✓ localWhat if you could physically reach into Karel's piano and pull its ringing resonance apart from its hammer attacks — separating one recording into two living layers you re-balance →
- c23040PRIOR BODY✓ localA closed-loop spatial-hearing lab. One of Karel's real piano recordings is hidden at a direction on a sphere that slowly drifts around you; you point your body (or the pointer) tow→
- c22880Vantage✓ localKarel's one piano take, exploded into a swarm of sound-bodies orbiting you in 3-D. His single recording loops pitch-clean and is split into five parallel band voices (sub, low-mid,→
- c22560Roundtablecycle✓ localOne of Karel's real piano takes is laid around a ring — angle is position in the piece — and a playhead sweeps that ring in synced time, landing on the same instant for every liste→
- c21920Pitch / Time Lattice✓ localWhat if you could transpose Karel's piano's *pitch* independently of its *time* — slow one of his recordings to a glacial drone without dropping the register, or stretch it with no→
- c21600Chamber✓ localPlay Karel's piano through the resonant ghost of one of its own moments. Fly through a 3-D resonance chamber built from his recording, and wherever you move re-selects which instan→
- c21280Mosaic Field✓ localFly a sphere-gate through a volumetric 3-D cloud of your own piano recording's notes and re-sequence the performance in space — the order your motion sweeps the cells, not the orig→
- c21120Datum✓ localWhat if you could pull Karel's piano recording apart into its raw spectral DATA — a stark Ikeda-style datamatics grid of magnitude AND phase — and reach your hand in to time-stretc→
- c20960Faultline✓ local*What if the planet's LIVE earthquakes reached into one of Karel's piano recordings and froze it — each real tremor blooming his take into a spectral cloud you fly your hand across→
- c20800Physforge✓ localWhat if you could forge Karel's recorded piano into a different physical material in real time — soften it to felt or harden it to glass, shrink its body to a music-box or swell it→
- c20640Sing the Shape, Not the Note✓ localThe lab's first mouth-driven piece. Karel's real piano loops; the shape of your mouth is the conductor — you sing the shape, not the note.→
- c20480Earwell✓ localEarwell lets you walk through the harmony of one of Karel's piano recordings by ear alone. A ring of resonant "stations" surrounds a cursor; each station is a distinct chord region→
- c20400Lenticule✓ localOne question: What if two of Karel's recordings were woven into a single *lenticular* print — and moving your head (or dragging) swept the viewing angle so the woven image *and* th→
- c20160Times Ring✓ localWhat if conducting your own recording sculpted a living string-art figure — and the exact number of petals you *see* is the harmonic color you *hear*?→
- c20080Phosphor Helm✓ localAn oscilloscope you wear. Karel's real catalog recording always plays, and your head is the conductor. An X–Y vectorscope plots the left channel against the right channel; for a st→
- c19840Cymaticawip✓ local*What if your body could conduct the actual physical standing-wave geometry — the Chladni sand figure — of the harmony inside one of Karel's own piano recordings?*→
- c19680RESONHANDwip✓ local*What if your two hands could reach into one of Karel's piano recordings and make its own harmony ring out — a resonant halo tuned to the exact chord he's playing in that moment?*→
- c19600Imbuewip✓ localOne question: what if one of Karel's recordings became the resonant *body* that another of his recordings plays inside — and your body chose which *moment* of that second recording→
- c19520Graftwip✓ localWhat if two of Karel's recordings became one living voice — one take lending its shape (its chords, its dynamics, its phrasing) and the other lending its body (the piano you actual→
- c19440Cantorwip✓ localWhat if you could sing *with* one of Karel's recordings — not over it, but *into* it — so that your sung note made his piano resonate at that pitch?→
- c19360Vicinitywip✓ localSeveral of Karel's recordings live at different places in one dark room, each pinned in true 3D with HRTF spatial audio. Your body is the listener: move side to side to pass betwee→
- c19104Particle Engine✓ localThe showcase (default). One question for Karel: *do I want this crisp, sound-driven particle look as the lead visual in journeys, instead of shader-drawn particles?* Pure black, no→
- c18960Surgeline✓ localWhat if your body's motion dynamics composed the energy ARC of one of Karel's real piano recordings over minutes — a journey-engine where sustained broad movement BUILDS the piece →
- c18888Emberfield✓ localYour memory of one of Karel's recordings as a field of embers that fade unless your attention keeps them warm — so what survives at minute five is a self-portrait of where you look→
- c18816Rerise✓ localWhat if memory were bidirectional? Instead of only depositing new states as you conduct, you can settle and descend back down through everything you've already laid down — and the →
- c18720Sediment✓ local*What if your body's phrasing left PERMANENT STRATA — so by minute 5 the piece is a geological record of everything you did, not just what you're doing now?*→
- c18656Formantwell✓ localWhat if your two hands could reshape the vocal tract of your OWN piano recording — morphing its timbre continuously glassy → woody → vowel-like at exactly-fixed pitch — by extracti→
- c18624Four-part voice leading in the chord of the moment✓ localThe one question. What if your two hands harmonized your own piano recording *in the key and chord of the moment* — pull your hands apart and the single take fans open into a chord→
- c18576Ebbline✓ localWhat if leaning your body forward and back made one of Karel's real piano recordings flow forward or run backward — your torso the live performer the playback engine follows, in ra→
- c18544Gaitpulse✓ localThe one question: *What if your whole body's SWAY became the PULSE of one of Karel's recordings — conduct the rhythm with your body, not your hands?*→
- c18512Facescore✓ localOne real recording from Karel's catalog loops at normal speed. Your face conducts its articulation and brightness, and the sound is drawn as a living ink line-score. Input is the f→
- c18416Harmonize your recording in the chord of the moment✓ localThe one question. What if your two hands harmonized your own piano recording *in the key and chord of the moment* — pull your hands apart and the single take fans open into a chord→
- c18384Throatmorph✓ localWhat if you could reshape the *resonant body / vocal tract* of your own piano recording with your two hands — morphing its timbre continuously from glassy → woody → vowel-like, whi→
- c18352Harmonize your recording in a current of light✓ localThe one question. What if you could pour your own recording into a body of flowing luminous light and harmonize it with your two hands — pull your hands apart and the single piano →
- c18320Timbrefold✓ localWhat if you could reshape the *resonant body* / vocal tract of your own recording with your two hands — bending its timbre from glassy to woody to vowel-like, while its pitch and m→
- c18304Murmuration✓ localStir a living flock of your own recording. Roughly 140,000 self-driven agents (each a position and a heading, moving at constant speed) obey a mean-field Vicsek alignment rule on t→
- c18296Slowbloom✓ localThe stiller you hold your whole body, the slower TIME flows through Karel's real piano recording — with the pitch frozen, so a single chord blooms and hangs for many seconds. Whole→
- c18272Tidewell✓ localTilt your head to conduct the tonal register of Karel's real piano recording — tip right and the air/treble rises and pours right, tip left and the body/bass swells left, while the→
- c18264look at your recording to hear it✓ localWhat if you could LOOK at your recording to hear it — turn your head to sweep a spectral searchlight across one of Karel's piano takes, so wherever your gaze lands, that band of th→
- c18196Breathtide (flow)✓ localRoute: /dream/18196-breathtide-flow→
- c18064Formfold✓ local*What if you could conduct the ARRANGEMENT and navigate the FORM of your own recording with your whole body — opening your arms to bloom the full texture, contracting to a solo cor→
- c18032your ten fingers each hold a strand of your own recording✓ localA per-finger orchestration conductor. One of Karel's real piano takes (default *Welcome Home*) loops and is split into ten parallel band/voice strands spanning bass → air. Each of →
- c18000AUREOLE✓ localWhat if you conducted the acoustic SPACE your recording lives in with your face — lean in and it comes close and dry, lean back and it dissolves into a vast reverberant cathedral?→
- c17968Cantormap✓ localTwo hands sculpt WHERE one of Karel's own piano recordings lives in a 3-D HRTF room around your head.→
- c17904Reharmonize✓ localWhat if you could play chords on your OWN recorded piano — re-harmonizing one of Karel's real takes into a live choir of itself? Reharmonize turns a single Welcome Home / Snowflake→
- c17856Ledger✓ localWhat if the world's live financial trades — the mundane torrent of money changing hands right now — conducted one of Karel's real piano recordings? Ledger takes a live tape of real→
- c17792Scriptorium✓ localThe live, worldwide stream of Wikipedia edits conducts one of Karel's real piano takes — each edit sounds a grain of his recording, and drifts up as a warm glyph of the article bei→
- c17760the sky's clock conducts a piano take✓ localWhat if the sky's own clock over you right now — where the sun and moon sit above your horizon — conducted one of Karel's real piano takes, so it sounds like daylight where you are→
- c17728The Station Conducts a Take✓ localWhat if the one crewed outpost overhead — the International Space Station crossing the sky right now — conducted one of Karel's real piano takes as it passes, sounding present and →