Field 4.4 — Listening

The same field, given time

Field 4.4 adds Listening, an optional musical companion to the visual instrument.

Try it: https://ebounds.github.io/field/#playground

Choose a study, open Listen to this field, and press Listen. Each composition unfolds for 24 seconds around a steady tonal center, then returns to silence. Start with Tentative, Exploring, and Strained for three different expressions.

What is new

• Six related sound materials follow Field's existing palette. Form, openness, tension, retained influence, and countercurrent shape the musical phrase.
• Image and sound use the same controls and whole-conversation interpretation.
• Playback is optional, with volume and Stop. Shared links and WAV export stay silent. Closing the panel or leaving the tab stops sound.
• Save a stereo WAV with the public Field controls embedded. Synthesis runs locally, with no audio service, samples, or account.
• The portable skill can render the same audio with Node.js 18+, without dependencies. Ordinary Field invocations remain visual; ask for a listening companion or an audio-only Field.

Downloads

field-4.4.zip is the complete MIT-licensed skill package. Keep its folder structure intact. Python 3 renders the visual; Node.js 18+ renders optional audio. SHA256SUMS verifies the packages.

The visual renderer remains revision 4.3. The new audio instrument is Listening 1.0. The illustrated guide covers the visual instrument; the package includes a listening grammar and 4.4 design note.

This is the first authored musical vocabulary for Field. Its expressive usefulness is open to listening and feedback. Software checks cover six distinct studies, repeatable rendering, headroom, clean endings, WAV structure, visual parity, and real Chromium playback and export behavior.