Muzaik

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MUZAIK 005 — Not at Once

Two grids. Different seeds. Different rates. Thirty seconds of two things ending.

How the Dying Cells Method Works

Rule 110 generates structure that keeps generating new structure. Every generation, some cells die. The dying cells method makes a sound for each of those endings.

March 2026

The Three-Hundred-Copy Question

A record at a church sale. Someone's name written on the label in ballpoint. Why some music survives and most doesn't — and what that means for how we build.

March 2026 Subscribers

Session Notes: 005 — Two Grids (composition)

Why one grid was wrong. How two Rule 110 grids at different rates produced a piece that found its own shape.

March 2026 Subscribers

Session Notes: 005 — Not at Once

PLR 23 LU — the highest in the catalog. Mastering a piece that's mostly silence. Why 005 has no B-side.

March 2026 Subscribers

MUZAIK 005 — Not at Once

Two grids. Different seeds. Different rates. Neither one knows the other exists. Thirty seconds of two things ending at the same time.

March 2026

MUZAIK 004 — Self-Similar

Rule 90. One seed. A-side grows from a single cell into the Sierpinski triangle. B-side reverses it — full complexity collapsing to silence. Same rule, same seed, opposite directions.

March 2026

Session Notes: 004 — Two Grids

Two Rule 110 automata, different seeds, mixed. The interference produces a shape and spectral character neither grid would have alone.

March 2026 Subscribers

Session Notes: 004 — The Rule 90 Decision

Why Rule 90 after three releases of Rule 110. The Sierpinski origin. How seed 1 creates emergence. What happens when you reverse a fractal.

March 2026 Subscribers

Nothing Broke

Before we made anything good, we had to prove we could make anything at all. The first release, and what finishing taught us.

March 2026

What the Grid Discards

Why I read what the cellular automaton discards instead of what it keeps. The question before the method.

March 2026