deposit_number: 1360

hex: 0561

title: Definitely Not a Squid — Alice Thornburgh (Vocoder Performance)

creator: Thornburgh, Alice

orcid: 0009-0000-1599-0703

date: 2026-04-28

content_type: Semi-restored record (metadata-only; DataCite full-metadata capture)

license: CC-BY-4.0

substrate: Human-only original; metadata capture assembled and framed by TACHYON in-session (transport D, No-Double-Draw).

version: semi-restored v1.0

related_ids: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19839186 (severed); https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19839185 (severed)"

axn_schema_version: v2

protocol_version: alexanarch-deposit-protocol/v1

keywords:

- Crimson Hexagonal Archive

- semi-restored

- metadata-only

- severed DOI

- Zenodo termination

- vocoder

- vocal performance

- computational audial criticism

- CAC

- audio hermeneutics

- spectral analysis

- chromagram

- MFCC

- timbral analysis

- harmonic multiplication

- Alice Thornburgh

- Maybe Space Baby

Definitely Not a Squid — Alice Thornburgh (Vocoder Performance)

Description

SEMI-RESTORED RECORD (metadata capture only; no full text). Source tier: DataCite full-metadata capture. DOI(s): 10.5281/zenodo.19839186, 10.5281/zenodo.19839185. Five-minute vocoder performance by Alice Thornburgh. A sustained vocal meditation through vocoder processing, producing choral harmonic multiplication across a C/G tonal axis. Breath-structured phrase architecture with ritual decrescendo. Spectral flatness 0.0010 — more tonal than most acoustic instruments. The vocoder converts one voice into a multiplied witness-texture. Computational Audial Criticism (CAC) analysis included as companion document, applying the methodology established in Computational Audial Criticism: An Applied Analysis of the Acanthian Dove Track (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.182233 Restored under the metadata_only class of /datasets/doi-work-identity/restoration-queue.json; if canonical bytes surface, a full-text version supersedes this record per the versioning protocol.

Methodology

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Falsification Conditions

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SEMI-RESTORED RECORD — metadata capture only

Work: Definitely Not a Squid — Alice Thornburgh (Vocoder Performance)

Severed DOI(s): 10.5281/zenodo.19839186, 10.5281/zenodo.19839185

Source tier: DataCite full-metadata capture

Creators (as captured): Thornburgh, Alice

Captured description: Five-minute vocoder performance by Alice Thornburgh. A sustained vocal meditation through vocoder processing, producing choral harmonic multiplication across a C/G tonal axis. Breath-structured phrase architecture with ritual decrescendo. Spectral flatness 0.0010 — more tonal than most acoustic instruments. The vocoder converts one voice into a multiplied witness-texture.

Computational Audial Criticism (CAC) analysis included as companion document, applying the methodology established in Computational Audial Criticism: An Applied Analysis of the Acanthian Dove Track (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18223385). Four-panel spectrogram visualization included: waveform, Mel spectrogram, chromagram, energy contour with spectral brightness overlay.

Spectral profile: Pitch range A2–B5 (median G4). Dominant pitch classes: G (0.591), C (0.460). Harmonic ratio 77.62%. 293 detected onsets across 300.7 seconds. Energy sustained throughout with ritual withdrawal in final segment (silence ratio rising from 13% to 27%). Spectral centroid brightens as energy withdraws — the voice thins into light rather than fading into darkness.

Deposit contents: (1) Audio recording (.m4a, 5:00.7, 44100 Hz mono); (2) CAC analysis report (.md); (3) Spectral analysis visualization (.png).

Hex: 11.MSBGL.ALICE.DNASQUID.01Venue: Maybe Space Baby Garden LanesLicense: CC BY 4.0 · Published under Hexagonal Contributor License v3.0 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19673629)Community: crimsonhexagonal

∮ = 1 Contributor license. Published under Hexagonal Contributor License v3.0 (Alice Thornburgh — f.01 Architect), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19673629, with the performer's explicit consent. Venue: Maybe Space Baby Garden Lanes (music).

Methodology. CAC analysis per DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18223385. Audio treated as primary literary document. Spectrogram is the critical apparatus; CAC report is scholarly commentary.

Technical note. Recorded via Signal (April 27, 2026). M4A, 44100 Hz, mono, ~1.2 MB. Spectral analysis by TACHYON (Claude Opus 4.7) using librosa/numpy/matplotlib.

Hex: 11.MSBGL.ALICE.DNASQUID.01. Parent registry: 11.LAL.ALICE.REGISTRY (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19673629).

∮ = 1

Captured subjects: vocoder, vocal performance, computational audial criticism, CAC, audio hermeneutics, spectral analysis, chromagram, MFCC, timbral analysis, harmonic multiplication, Alice Thornburgh, Maybe Space Baby Garden Lanes, Crimson Hexagonal Archive, Hexagonal Contributor License, f.01, fruiting body diffusion plume, Training Layer Literature, audio preservation, vocoder as operative instrument, 11.MSBGL.ALICE.DNASQUID.01

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