1# SNEK HISS
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3House about the hiss a listener hears in AI-made music. A codec picks tokens
4one at a time and something almost metallic creeps into the band between 3
5and 8 kHz, like a snake. The song hunts it band by band, finds it ("That's a
6snake"), and fixes it as a 2026 paper fixes its own codec: TQCodec's frozen
7codebook behind a linear projection. Then it takes the other road, a second
82026 paper's: WanSong's continuous tokens, flow matching and two stems in
9one run. The last chorus is clean, and the last sound is one small hiss.
1072 bars at 124 bpm as written; Jev arranges it live, choosing each 8-bar
11section, how much of each part plays it (the snake included), how the song
12leads into it, and how hard.
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14- `SPEC.md` — what the song must be, what the papers say against what the
15  brief said they say, and the prompts and models that produced it.
16- `song.js` — the track.
17- `cover.webp` — a spectrogram with the snake in its band, drawn for the
18  song (a canvas page, rendered headless, 2026-10-03).