Week 11 Listening Lab: The honesty audit
Identify where an instrument's musical framing may overstate its evidence.
Listening Lab 11
18 October 2027
Leave with
a completed disclosure checklist and revised prototype
Before the lab#
Prepare a complete mapping legend and a version of the instrument that a peer
can run without an explanation.
In the lab#
Conduct a hostile audit: infer what the interface seems to claim, then compare
that impression with its source and methods. Revise the largest mismatch.
Leave with#
A signed disclosure checklist, before-and-after evidence and a precise final
testing question.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- every cleaning and scaling operation is listed
- compositional additions are labelled as additions
- one potentially misleading choice is removed or defended