Slackwater Perception

Perceive the world as multi-track MIDI. A vocalist's look triggers the band. A gesture trades fours. Everything is a flow of inputs and outputs with cascading resonations.

A Python package that encodes any experience — a podcast, a YouTube video, a game session, a conversation — as multi-track MIDI. Pitch, tempo, velocity, timbre, inflection, silence, gesture, intention, and attention each get their own track. The result is not a recording. It's a score.

What it does

• MultiTrackEncoder: separates any input (audio, video, text, game state) into MIDI tracks
• PitchTracker: fundamental frequency + harmonics over time
• TempoDetector: BPM + micro-timing (swing, push/drag) from any audio
• VelocityMapper: intensity/weight mapping (whisper → pianissimo, shout → fortissimo)
• TimbreColorizer: spectral color analysis → MIDI timbre events
• InflectionTracker: rising/falling/flat pitch movement → melodic direction
• SilenceDetector: rests between phrases (the pause before "I love you")
• IntentionPropagator: predicts what's about to happen from pre-event cues
• AttentionTracker: where focus is directed, moment by moment

The Band Analogy (which is not an analogy)

A vocalist gives a look to the band. The intention propagates before the note arrives. The drummer opens the hi-hat. The bassist moves to the bridge. The dancer feels something coming. The climax arrives. Every track peaks. The system records this as a convergence event.

This is what this package encodes. Not the notes — the moment the notes happened in.

Related

• Slackwater Tempo — the shared tempo map
• FLUX Tensor-MIDI — the 4D tensor representation