The Build · 5 min read
Drop it in the pond and see how it ripples
One small kindness, one idea handed over, and the shape it makes in the air. What I am building is a stone in the water.
Read itThe writing shelf
Everything written, in one place
The Deep Standard papers and the articles that argue for them. Read them here, then copy any piece straight into Substack.
The Build · 3 min read
The sound of safety: why audio needs the same care as contrast
Sound is the last accessibility frontier nobody audits. A design can pass every contrast check, look flawless in a review, and still be unusable to a sensory brain.
Read itThe Build · 1 min read
Built from the inside out: the world's first sensory music platform
Most platforms treat accessibility as a settings menu bolted on at the end. We treated it as the architecture.
Read itThe Audience · 1 min read
The fifth of the room nobody built for
One in five people in the venue is neurodivergent. They bought the ticket like everyone else, and they leave early like clockwork.
Read itThe Standard · 1 min read
The Deep Standard: a benchmark the music industry can adopt
Forty years of the loudness war flattened the music. The fix is not quieter records. It is honest labels, soft masters, and a warning before the ambush.
Read itThe Build · 2 min read
Interest, not urgency: the design framework behind the app
Four ideas about how our brains actually work, and exactly where each one is built into the platform.
Read itThe Standard · 1 min read
The One Standard: what we publish, and what we keep
Accessibility is not a tab bolted onto a finished product. It is the order things get built in — and the engineering behind it is the part that stays ours.
Read itThe Standard · 5 min read
The Deep Standard: the white paper, in full
Draft 01. The world's first open standard for sensory-safe recorded music. Published openly by Diverse Solutions Canopy CIC, free to adopt forever, and running today in a live platform.
Read itThe Room · 4 min read
The room: taking Parallel Pulse out of the browser
Live music can be deep and still be enterable. This is the architecture we are building for the physical room, and the order we intend to build it in.
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