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Code as live time-based audio performance; the far live end of the live<->snapshot axis (no faithful static form; static = source + marked recording). The honesty test for graceful degradation. Enrichment-only (UC-54/55). Marks T5 done — all 8 batch tasks complete. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# 260614 — Strudel.cc (live-coding REPL) deep dive
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Date: 2026-06-14 · Source: **SHARD-WP-0004 T5**
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## What this is
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A deep dive into **Strudel.cc** (the JavaScript port of **TidalCycles**): a browser
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**live-coding REPL** where terse **pattern source** is **evaluated live into time-based
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audio** — code as a running musical performance, with **no document, no output cell, no file
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of results**.
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## Why it matters
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- The **extreme of the live↔snapshot axis** (named at T6): output is **temporal, generative,
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performative**, so there is **no faithful static form** — the best static projection is
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**source (canonical, diffable) + an optional audio recording snapshot**, marked as one
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performance. The **honesty test** for union-without-erasure + graceful degradation.
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- Bounds the projection model's live end: ahead-of-time → view-time one-shot → continuous →
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**irreducibly live/temporal (recording-only)**.
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## Yield
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- **No new UC** (enrichment / design prior art; far live end). Enriches **UC-54, UC-55**;
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links UC-83/84, UC-37, UC-35.
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## Contents
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| Path | Role |
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|------|------|
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| `findings.md` | Code-as-live-performance, the limit of static projection, INTENT mapping, UC disposition (enrichment-only), architecture notes (T16 far end of live↔snapshot axis) |
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