music/pass7/ROUND4_REVIEW_ROWS.json
{
"_doc": "the round-4 review rows, STAGED and not published. `--apply` is the director's act and is the only thing that puts these on the surface Josh reads.",
"_gate": "round 4 is publication-held until the director has spot-checked it",
"_emitted_by": "harness/music_gen/stage_round4.py",
"round_4_note": [
"ROUND 4 — the harmony, rhythm and melody pass, built against the sentence that took round 3 down.",
"Every cue now has a real chord schedule with a harmonic rhythm and named cadence families, and the melody's structural tones were snapped onto it — \"they clash\" measured and repaired rather than argued with.",
"There is a SECOND MELODIC VOICE in thirds and sixths on its own timbre, which is your \"never any harmonies added on\" clause taken literally. It overlaps the tune 100% of the time it sounds; it does not yet sound often enough, and that is named as round 5's lead rather than claimed as done.",
"Every pad and arpeggio was replaced by a written, voice-led figure that IMPLIES the harmony instead of stating it, and the percussion is a measured groove — metrical hierarchy, syncopation index, density ladder — laid AROUND the colotomic clock instead of across it.",
"And the tune itself: the piano/nostalgia test now passes on all three cues where round 3 passed on one and round 2 on none.",
"Three defects in our own instruments were found and fixed in the process, and each one had been silently reporting a pass: a pitch resolver that put two whole layers of harmony two octaves too high, a summit test that returned zero melody notes while reporting available, and a melody selector that counted an interlocking mallet part as a second tune."
],
"rows": [
{
"id": "PASS7_FLORES_ROAD",
"factory": "music",
"what": "Flores Highlands -- the road that keeps count — round 4, one composed cue for CH_03",
"artifact": "",
"staged": "2026-08-09",
"status": "ungraded",
"question": "grade this cue — up or down",
"supersedes": "PASS5_FLORES_ROAD",
"note": "ROUND 4. Round 3 was turned down in one sentence — noise, clashing melodies, no rhythm or complexity, a few notes played back to back, and never any harmonies added on. Every clause of that sentence was turned into a measurement first, and three of them turned out to be one structural defect in our own code rather than a taste disagreement. Nobody has heard this round — not you, not the director, not the lane that made it.",
"comparison_card": {
"_what_this_is": "rounds 2, 3 and 4 on the SAME measurements, every number read out of the files that round produced or re-measured live on that round's own plan. Nothing here is a listening verdict and nobody has heard round 4.",
"_the_retro_scoring_is_the_point": "the three instruments that read harmony, rhythm and melodic substance did not exist when rounds 2 and 3 were built, so they were run BACKWARDS over both. An axis that only ever measures the new work is measuring the fact that we aimed at it.",
"round_2_cue": "PASS2_FLORES_REST",
"round_3_cue": "PASS5_FLORES_ROAD",
"round_4_cue": "PASS7_FLORES_ROAD",
"purpose_class": "EXPLORATION",
"lines": [
{
"axis": "Josh's nostalgia test — does the tune survive as a piano reduction",
"round_2": "FAIL",
"round_3": "PASS",
"round_4": "PASS",
"plain": "hum it back in thirty years. The instrument was BLIND for rounds 2 and 3 — it did not admit the layer kind everything is written in — so all three rounds are re-measured here on the repaired one."
},
{
"axis": "longest span of NEW tune before it repeats or rests (floor 4 bars)",
"round_2": 3.75,
"round_3": 6.03,
"round_4": 12.9,
"plain": "\"just a few notes slowly played back to back\" — located in the score, in bars"
},
{
"axis": "distinct musical ideas in the cue (floor 2)",
"round_2": 3,
"round_3": 2,
"round_4": 2,
"plain": "one idea repeated is not a piece"
},
{
"axis": "orchestra-playability hard findings",
"round_2": 4,
"round_3": 14,
"round_4": 19,
"plain": "the second ultimate test. Round 4's count is HIGHER and the reason is on the record: the density that fixed the tune pushes fast divided lines past some brass articulation floors. It is an orchestration ASSIGNMENT debt — the same notes given to mallets or woodwind articulate cleanly — and the ruling was that the piano test wins."
},
{
"axis": "measured holds (a stretch that stands still long enough to read)",
"round_2": "0 — the plans contained no flat stretch at all",
"round_3": "2, longest 26.75 s",
"round_4": "1, longest 29.72 s (floor 22.287 s)",
"plain": "\"the songs dont build and hold with proper peaks\" — your own words, as an axis"
},
{
"axis": "arc instrument verdict",
"round_2": "FAIL (0 holds on every cue)",
"round_3": "PASS",
"round_4": "FAIL on the energy curve (hold share 0.1333 against 0.1434) and PASS on both curves that carry no loudness term (lane simultaneity 0.1922, complexity 0.287)",
"plain": "5 of 7 instruments that can decide say pass"
},
{
"axis": "measured boundaries (the segmenter's count of where the music changes)",
"round_2": 22,
"round_3": 10,
"round_4": 8,
"plain": "how many times the music becomes a different thing, as the segmenter hears it. Round 2 scores HIGHEST here and it is not a compliment on its own: its texture changed constantly and it held nothing, which is the pairing the arc row above exists to separate."
},
{
"axis": "structural yield (boundaries per detected drop)",
"round_2": 1.1,
"round_3": 0.2381,
"round_4": "0.1481 (our generator)",
"plain": "READ THIS WITH ITS BRACKET. The measure divides by every spectral dip it finds, and a busier surface produces more dips that remove fewer than two lanes, so the denominator grows as the music gets denser."
},
{
"axis": "deepest drop",
"round_2": "-6.37 dB",
"round_3": "-6.48 dB",
"round_4": "-14.14 dB (corpus floor -10.73)",
"plain": "how far the floor falls out when it is supposed to"
},
{
"axis": "loudness",
"round_2": "unmeasured; peak-normalised, so how loud it arrived was decided by its single loudest sample",
"round_3": "-13.16 LUFS against -12.18",
"round_4": "-13.14 LUFS against a target of -12.18 measured off the tracks you named; range 8.61 LU, true peak -1.0 dBTP",
"plain": "the level the file actually arrives at"
}
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"instrument": "melody_bands",
"axis": "note_density_per_sounding_s",
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"why": "Josh: 'a few notes slowly played back to back'",
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}
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{
"instrument": "groove",
"axis": "pulse_salience_audio",
"direction": "band",
"why": "is there a pulse",
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"axis": "beat_consistency",
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"why": "Josh: 'no rythm'",
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"why": "are there drums at all",
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"axis": "sync_score",
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"why": "symbolic composite syncopation; round 3 was exactly 0.0",
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{
"instrument": "groove",
"axis": "onset_synchrony_max",
"direction": "down",
"why": "the anti-tutti number",
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"instrument": "harmony_fit",
"axis": "undeclared_parallel_perfects",
"direction": "down",
"why": "the VL-1 defect",
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"value": 116,
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"available": true,
"longest_novel_phrase_bars": 3.75,
"distinct_ideas": 3,
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"n_hard": 4,
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}
},
"evidence": "build/audio/pass7/ROUND4_STAGING.md",
"audio_dir": "D:/audio/pass7/PASS7_FLORES_ROAD",
"candidates_held": [
"PASS7_FLORES_ROAD"
],
"theme_key": "PASS7_FLORES_ROAD",
"target_chapter": "CH_03",
"target_theme_row": "REGION_FLORES_ISLAND",
"honest_limits_short": [
"THE PLAYERS ARE A FREE CC0 COMMUNITY SAMPLE LIBRARY played by an offline sampler, one dynamic layer a note. This is not a scoring session, no human has touched a note of it, and the honest tier is STRUCTURE plus a measured mix. A real player's phrasing, breath and bow are absent by construction, and they are a large part of what separates this from a recording.",
"The tuning is 12-TET and a gong waning is not; there is no pitched gong in either CC0 set, so the tuned-bronze half of the ensemble is played by concert instruments standing in — declared as standing in, on the card.",
"The room is SYNTHETIC — a generated impulse response per purpose class, so no third-party impulse licence is carried. It is a declared space, not a real one.",
"Nobody has heard this round. Every number on the card is a property of the written score or a measurement of the exact bytes the player would serve.",
"THIS CUE FAILS THE ARC INSTRUMENT ON ONE OF ITS FOUR CURVES: hold share 0.1333 against a floor of 0.1434, about 2.3 seconds of sustained time short in a 223.448-second cue. It CLEARS the floor on both curves that carry no loudness term (lane simultaneity 0.1922, complexity 0.287) and on the dry render of the same writing. The lever that would have closed it was tested to its ceiling and measured INERT — see ROUND4_STAGING.md section 7B — and the residue is chartered as an instrument repair, not hidden."
]
},
{
"id": "PASS7_FLORES_FALLS",
"factory": "music",
"what": "Flores Highlands -- the light on the water — round 4, one composed cue for CH_03",
"artifact": "",
"staged": "2026-08-09",
"status": "ungraded",
"question": "grade this cue — up or down",
"supersedes": "PASS5_FLORES_FALLS",
"note": "ROUND 4. Round 3 was turned down in one sentence — noise, clashing melodies, no rhythm or complexity, a few notes played back to back, and never any harmonies added on. Every clause of that sentence was turned into a measurement first, and three of them turned out to be one structural defect in our own code rather than a taste disagreement. Nobody has heard this round — not you, not the director, not the lane that made it.",
"comparison_card": {
"_what_this_is": "rounds 2, 3 and 4 on the SAME measurements, every number read out of the files that round produced or re-measured live on that round's own plan. Nothing here is a listening verdict and nobody has heard round 4.",
"_the_retro_scoring_is_the_point": "the three instruments that read harmony, rhythm and melodic substance did not exist when rounds 2 and 3 were built, so they were run BACKWARDS over both. An axis that only ever measures the new work is measuring the fact that we aimed at it.",
"round_2_cue": "PASS2_FLORES_WATERFALL",
"round_3_cue": "PASS5_FLORES_FALLS",
"round_4_cue": "PASS7_FLORES_FALLS",
"purpose_class": "SANCTUARY",
"lines": [
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"axis": "Josh's nostalgia test — does the tune survive as a piano reduction",
"round_2": "FAIL",
"round_3": "FAIL",
"round_4": "PASS",
"plain": "hum it back in thirty years. The instrument was BLIND for rounds 2 and 3 — it did not admit the layer kind everything is written in — so all three rounds are re-measured here on the repaired one."
},
{
"axis": "longest span of NEW tune before it repeats or rests (floor 4 bars)",
"round_2": 4.0,
"round_3": 1.58,
"round_4": 10.0,
"plain": "\"just a few notes slowly played back to back\" — located in the score, in bars"
},
{
"axis": "distinct musical ideas in the cue (floor 2)",
"round_2": 1,
"round_3": 5,
"round_4": 5,
"plain": "one idea repeated is not a piece"
},
{
"axis": "orchestra-playability hard findings",
"round_2": 3,
"round_3": 12,
"round_4": 17,
"plain": "the second ultimate test. Round 4's count is HIGHER and the reason is on the record: the density that fixed the tune pushes fast divided lines past some brass articulation floors. It is an orchestration ASSIGNMENT debt — the same notes given to mallets or woodwind articulate cleanly — and the ruling was that the piano test wins."
},
{
"axis": "measured holds (a stretch that stands still long enough to read)",
"round_2": "0 — the plans contained no flat stretch at all",
"round_3": "1, longest 26.0 s",
"round_4": "1, longest 31.21 s (floor 22.287 s)",
"plain": "\"the songs dont build and hold with proper peaks\" — your own words, as an axis"
},
{
"axis": "arc instrument verdict",
"round_2": "FAIL (0 holds on every cue)",
"round_3": "PASS",
"round_4": "PASS",
"plain": "7 of 7 instruments that can decide say pass"
},
{
"axis": "measured boundaries (the segmenter's count of where the music changes)",
"round_2": 11,
"round_3": 22,
"round_4": 22,
"plain": "how many times the music becomes a different thing, as the segmenter hears it. Round 2 scores HIGHEST here and it is not a compliment on its own: its texture changed constantly and it held nothing, which is the pairing the arc row above exists to separate."
},
{
"axis": "structural yield (boundaries per detected drop)",
"round_2": 1.5714,
"round_3": 0.6667,
"round_4": "0.6875 (between the two populations)",
"plain": "READ THIS WITH ITS BRACKET. The measure divides by every spectral dip it finds, and a busier surface produces more dips that remove fewer than two lanes, so the denominator grows as the music gets denser."
},
{
"axis": "deepest drop",
"round_2": "-6.26 dB",
"round_3": "-8.66 dB",
"round_4": "-6.47 dB (corpus floor -10.73)",
"plain": "how far the floor falls out when it is supposed to"
},
{
"axis": "loudness",
"round_2": "unmeasured; peak-normalised, so how loud it arrived was decided by its single loudest sample",
"round_3": "-14.89 LUFS against -13.95",
"round_4": "-14.82 LUFS against a target of -13.95 measured off the tracks you named; range 11.4 LU, true peak -1.0 dBTP",
"plain": "the level the file actually arrives at"
}
],
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{
"instrument": "melody_bands",
"axis": "note_density_per_sounding_s",
"direction": "band",
"why": "Josh: 'a few notes slowly played back to back'",
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"round2/score": {
"value": 0.6875,
"band": "LOW"
},
"round2/audio": {
"value": 1.6477,
"band": "LOW"
},
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"value": 1.2363,
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},
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"value": 3.4277,
"band": "IN"
},
"round4/score": {
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"band": "LOW"
},
"round4/audio": {
"value": 4.0463,
"band": "IN"
}
}
},
{
"instrument": "melody_bands",
"axis": "step_share",
"direction": "band",
"why": "conjunct motion; below the band reads as leaping",
"rounds": {
"round2/score": {
"value": 0.1034,
"band": "LOW"
},
"round2/audio": {
"value": 0.4265,
"band": "LOW"
},
"round3/score": {
"value": 0.4884,
"band": "IN"
},
"round3/audio": {
"value": 0.6714,
"band": "IN"
},
"round4/score": {
"value": 0.6532,
"band": "IN"
},
"round4/audio": {
"value": 0.6544,
"band": "IN"
}
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"The room is SYNTHETIC — a generated impulse response per purpose class, so no third-party impulse licence is carried. It is a declared space, not a real one.",
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"THE PLAYERS ARE A FREE CC0 COMMUNITY SAMPLE LIBRARY played by an offline sampler, one dynamic layer a note. This is not a scoring session, no human has touched a note of it, and the honest tier is STRUCTURE plus a measured mix. A real player's phrasing, breath and bow are absent by construction, and they are a large part of what separates this from a recording.",
"The tuning is 12-TET and a gong waning is not; there is no pitched gong in either CC0 set, so the tuned-bronze half of the ensemble is played by concert instruments standing in — declared as standing in, on the card.",
"The room is SYNTHETIC — a generated impulse response per purpose class, so no third-party impulse licence is carried. It is a declared space, not a real one.",
"Nobody has heard this round. Every number on the card is a property of the written score or a measurement of the exact bytes the player would serve.",
"THIS CUE DOES NOT REACH ITS LOUDNESS TARGET: -11.82 LUFS against -9.84, so it will play quieter than a commercial reference. The gap was tested rather than assumed and the remaining distance is a doctrine limit — the reference median is a median of commercial masters shaped by processing this chain does not do, and loudness is never allowed to buy the arc."
]
}
]
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