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Sonic Spectres

A Master of Research thesis is that few people ever read. This is the same argument, built so that anyone curious can hear it. Literally.

Type
Interactive micro-module
Length
About six minutes
Delivery
SCORM-ready, single HTML build
Source
Master of Research thesis
What it does

An argument you can hear

Hauntological music is hard to explain in prose, because the whole point is a texture: tape hiss, decay, the sound of a memory going wrong. So the module generates the audio live in your browser rather than describing it: you press a control, hear the effect, and the definition arrives already grounded in something you've experienced.

Around that sit interactive timelines, an animated taxonomy, and a quiz that asks you to classify tracks yourself. Custom-coded as a single SCORM-ready HTML file, with no authoring-tool templates anywhere in it.

Interactive widgets Live audio demos Embedded quiz SCORM-ready Custom HTML build
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Sonic SpectresSix interactive minutes with sound made in the browser.
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Why it's here

Most subject-matter expertise dies in a document

This one happens to be mine, which made it a safe thing to experiment on. The pattern generalises: someone knows something deeply, it currently exists as a report or a lecture or a policy, and the format is what's stopping anyone else from getting it.

Got expertise stuck in a document?

That's the conversation I most like having.

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