Chiral Audio · Catalog V2 · Gravitational time-dilation delay

Geodesic^™

A delay that falls into a gravity well, and holds at the horizon.

α(r) = √(1 − r_s / r)

Geodesic plugin interface, showing the spacetime accretion field, the MASS dial, the ORBIT and TAPS controls, and the FREEZE / REVERSE / EVAPORATE buttons

Live · redshift ratio

0.59α at r = 1.70 r_s

Mass 0.55

Orbit 1.70 r_s

This is the plugin's interface. The mechanism behind it: mass deepens the well, the redshift ratio α falls toward zero, and a tap parks at the horizon. For the full derivation, read the time-dilation note.

Geodesic treats the delay as a radial field, not a row of unrelated taps. Each tap reads its buffer at the local clock ratio α(r) = √(1 − r_s/r), so pitch and time stretch are consequences of position in the well. For the deeper technical explanation, read the gravitational time-dilation delay note.

From gentle redshift to a frozen horizon.

01 · far

Redshift

Taps sit high in the well. Echoes stretch and darken gently, a delay with gravity.

02 · falling

Deepen

Raise mass. Near taps slow harder, pitch bends down, and the field pulls together.

03 · horizon

Hold

Below the threshold a tap parks into a held loop. Freeze captures the horizon state.

04 · thaw

Evaporate

Effective mass decays. The capture releases, and quiet material can be re-lit.

What Geodesic does differently.

One metric over the whole field.

A conventional multi-tap delay places echoes at unrelated times. Geodesic places taps at radii, and every tap inherits its stretch from the same governing law, so the voices move together as the well changes.

Mass deepens the well.

Mass raises the time dilation near the source. Close taps slow harder and darken; far taps stay comparatively stable. Orbit sweeps the population through the curve.

A lawful horizon endpoint.

When the redshift ratio falls below the threshold, a tap parks into a held loop instead of pitching forever down. The hold follows the metric rather than an arbitrary clamp.

Capture that can thaw.

Evaporate reduces effective mass over time, turning a capture gesture into a release. Relight re-ignites quiet material after the horizon has gone dark.