Week 4 Session: Rhythm

What the gap between separate presses says, once duration stops being the only signal a button gives you

15 March 2027

Weeks 2 and 3 measured what happens inside one gesture. This week measures across gestures: the interval between one press and the next, read as tempo rather than duration. It depends on week 1’s press as a repeated, sampled event — not on last week’s release logic, which is deliberately switched off this week so the two signals don’t blur together.

Before the session#

Bring a stopwatch, mentally: this week is about counting gaps between presses, not holding anything down.

In the session#

Demo of a metronome-style prototype, then build time. Hold and release logic are off-limits this week on purpose.

Studio exercise#

Build a prototype that reacts to the gap between presses — steady tempo, accelerating, drifting off. No hold-duration and no release timing allowed; if a prototype needs either, it’s using last week’s mechanic, not this week’s.

By the end#

You can separate “how long you held” from “how often you pressed” as different data channels from the same button, not two names for one idea.