SNEK HISS

House about the hiss a listener hears in AI-made music. A codec picks tokens one at a time and something almost metallic creeps into the band between 3 and 8 kHz, like a snake. The song hunts it band by band, finds it ("That's a snake"), and fixes it as a 2026 paper fixes its own codec: TQCodec's frozen codebook behind a linear projection. Then it takes the other road, a second 2026 paper's: WanSong's continuous tokens, flow matching and two stems in one run. The last chorus is clean, and the last sound is one small hiss. 72 bars at 124 bpm as written; Jev arranges it live, choosing each 8-bar section, how much of each part plays it (the snake included), how the song leads into it, and how hard.

• SPEC.md — what the song must be, what the papers say against what the brief said they say, and the prompts and models that produced it.
• song.js — the track.
• cover.webp — a spectrogram with the snake in its band, drawn for the song (a canvas page, rendered headless, 2026-10-03).