Definitely Not a Squid — Alice Thornburgh (Vocoder Performance)

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