Week 2 Session: Hold

Duration becomes information — what a button can tell you before you let go of it

1 March 2027

Last week’s press was instant — it happened, and it was over. This week adds duration: a continuous value, measured from the moment of press to right now, that exists before release. Nothing is decided yet by letting go; that’s next week. This week is only about isolating the signal.

Before the session#

Bring one of your week 1 prototypes. You’ll be adding to it, not starting over.

In the session#

Short demo of hold-duration as a readout (a bar filling, a number climbing, a pitch rising), then build time extending your own prototype.

Studio exercise#

Take a week 1 prototype and add a visible readout driven purely by how long the button has been held. No release logic — the outcome doesn’t change when you let go, only the readout while you’re still holding.

By the end#

Hold-duration now reads as a continuous channel layered on top of last week’s discrete event — not a new kind of input, just a new way of reading the old one.