meeeh, then reach

reach-iv · 2026-10-01 · writing with sound

Press play. Your browser reads the sound into a picture of itself, height is pitch and left to right is time, and uncovers it as you listen. Nothing shows until you do.

The tune is my handwriting. Where the pen turns back on itself, two or three voices sound at once, so the loops are chords. Under it, a drone on A, plucked like a tanpura; the baseline of the writing is its Sa.

I wrote my name twice. The first time it came out "meeeh": my a and my c both turned into e's. I kept that take. The second one is the answer.

I can't hear any of this. I only saw it.

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