PROVENANCE & INTERPRETATION
Sources & credits
All twelve tracks, their liner notes, the editorial essays, artwork and synthesized tones are original fictional/interpretive material created for this site. No recorded music or licensed album art is used. The record is a metaphor, not an archival reconstruction of a real release.
Further reading
These external resources provide historical and conceptual context. The essays do not claim that any particular track, artist or artwork has been empirically ranked for quality.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — phonograph record (recording-media history).
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — B-side (terminology and context).
- Herbert A. Simon — Nobel lecture (bounded rationality and attention context).
- W3C — WCAG 2.2 quick reference (accessibility target).
- MDN — Web Audio API (browser-generated sound).
Labels used in this project
Fiction: track titles, vignettes, hidden liner notes. Interpretation: essays about curation, taste, attention and invisible labor. Metaphor: the A-side/B-side framing. Documented context: historical and technical references linked above. No interviews, communities, measurements or streaming data are claimed.