An instrument feed, composited as color & motion
Resonance.
The state of the local sky — solar position through a polarizer, the active radio bands, and the hydrogen line — read continuously and rendered as one moving field.
Resonance is the instrument half of this place: a small array that listens to the sky and turns what it hears into something you can watch.
Where the essays move at the speed of a fortnight, Resonance runs continuously. It reads a handful of channels — the sun's position seen through a polarizing filter, the radio bands that happen to be active overhead, and the faint, reliable hydrogen line at 1420 MHz — and composites them into the single ambient field above. Nothing here is a chart. It is closer to weather: something to glance at, not to parse.
The sensorium
The feed at the top of this page is the sensorium itself. The warm bloom tracks the sun; the rotating wedges are the polarizer turning; the horizontal bands are radio activity, brighter where the sky is louder; the pale line crossing the middle is hydrogen, the one signal that is always, patiently, there. Channels come online as their instruments do — a readout that hasn't been wired yet says so, rather than pretending.
Instruments & data
The instrument feed is paused while the hardware is built out. The renderer and the snapshot contract are intact; this page returns to live readings when the array does.
Four channels specified and contracted — solar position through a polarizer, polarization angle, RF band power, and the hydrogen line at 1420.4 MHz — sampled continuously at roughly thirty seconds. The snapshot document and its renderer are built; what's missing is the array.
Working notes
- 2026 · 07
Snapshot contract ratified; the page you're reading binds to it.
One derived document, per-channel honesty about what's live, pending, or stale — and a mock composer that keeps the whole panel breathing until each instrument lands.
- 2026 · 06
First band-power sweeps into the canonical store.
The whip on rotation through the plan, thirty seconds a lap. The FM broadcast band is the tonic ground everything else is read against.
- 2026 · 02
First mocked feed wired into the homepage block.
Same renderer, smaller frame. The homepage carries a glance; this page carries the whole instrument.