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Noise-induced hearing loss produces a characteristic 3000–6000 Hz notch in the audiogram

Non-narrative cinema uses visual rhythm and montage structure rather than story to create meaning

Normalizing pixel coordinates to [-1,1] makes shaders resolution-independent and centers the mathematical origin

Normalizing RGB to 0.0–1.0 decouples color description from bit-depth encoding

Note values (whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth) are fractional proportions of a whole note

Note-based music organizes discrete pitched events; sound-based music foregrounds spectral content with less pitch hierarchy

note() sets pitch as a MIDI number or a letter name with optional octave and accidental

Notes an octave apart share a 2:1 frequency ratio, which is why the ear hears them as the same pitch class

Nu skool breaks favours synthetic tech sounds over the hip-hop samples and acid textures of big beat

Nu skool breaks is a 125–140 BPM breakbeat subgenre defined by dominant basslines and modern synthesized sounds

Nu-disco emerged from UK labels Black Cock Records and Nuphonic in the 1990s as house that reintroduced live disco elements

Objects have no intrinsic color — their apparent color is determined by what wavelengths the surface reflects under the incident light

Octaves, 5ths, and 4ths are stable consonances; 2nds, 7ths, and tritones are tense dissonances that want to move

On GL ES 1.00, `for` loop bounds must be compile-time constants, not uniforms

One E1.31 universe carries 512 DMX channels, controlling up to 170 RGB LEDs at 3 channels each

Open Sound Control is a transport-independent network protocol carrying typed, address-patterned messages between devices

Optimizing gain at every stage improves mix clarity and headroom

OSC connections require both a destination IP address and a port number to route messages to the correct application

OSC's 32-bit float arguments provide far higher control resolution than MIDI's 7-bit (0–127) integer range

Outsiders expected synthesizers to imitate acoustic instruments; insiders used them to make entirely new sounds

p5.js accepts colors as a grayscale number, an RGB triple, or a CSS color-name string

p5.js asset-loading functions (loadFont, loadImage) are asynchronous and must be called in preload() or given a callback to avoid undefined references

p5.js is a state machine where fill, stroke, and transform calls persist until overridden, so wrapping elements in push/pop prevents transform accumulation

p5.js map() rescales a value from one numeric range into another

p5.js sketches that load external files require a local web server to avoid cross-origin errors

p5.sound wraps the Web Audio API in a Processing-style interface for audio analysis and playback

p5's WEBGL renderer moves the origin to the canvas center and needs texture()/material before shapes show color

P5LIVE audio-reactivity has three incompatible sources (p5.sound, HY5, embedded Strudel) and none is the rig's 4-bin a.fft contract

P5LIVE runs p5 in global mode; instance-mode sketches (function sketch(p){}) must be rewritten before they work

P5LIVE sandbox and strudel regions must use matched open/close comment delimiters at top level, not inside functions

P5LIVE softCompile only replaces changed functions, leaving global-variable or setup edits to trigger a full hardCompile

Paradox (Dev Pandya) is the producer credited with championing the drumfunk subgenre

Partial, harmonic, and overtone are distinct spectral terms: a harmonic is an integer-multiple partial, an overtone is any harmonic above the fundamental

Passive multiples split a signal for free but degrade pitch CV; buffered multiples preserve it

Patterns recur at every level of live coding — from software architecture to music and visuals

Pd has object, message, and number boxes, with inlets always on top and outlets on bottom

Per-file Creative Commons licensing is what makes a sound library legally integrable into third-party tools

Philip Sherburne coined 'microhouse' in a July 2001 Wire article to name house stripped to rhythm, soul, and silence

Phuture's 'Acid Tracks' established the TB-303 in house music after DJ Ron Hardy played it repeatedly at the Music Box

Physical-release cost acts as a quality filter, letting only commercially viable tracks reach the scene

Pirate radio was jungle's primary distribution infrastructure before legal stations adopted it in 1994

Pirate radio was the primary distribution mechanism that grew UK garage from a London club scene to a national phenomenon

Pitch is frequency measured in Hertz; A4 = 440 Hz is the universal tuning standard

Placing unrelated media fragments in juxtaposition creates new meaning that neither fragment alone contains

Planning a generative artwork on paper before coding reduces debugging time and sharpens the visual intent

play and sleep are the two primitives for pitch and timing in Sonic Pi

Plunderphonics treats pre-existing recordings as raw compositional material

Polyphony in Eurorack requires a dedicated signal path per voice and is expensive, space-consuming, and complex

Portishead's Dummy (1994) consolidated trip-hop's mainstream profile and introduced film-soundtrack sampling as a method

Practicing a skill to diminishing returns, then sleeping before resuming, accelerates learning

Pre-internet dance music spread through DJ mix-tape cassette networks, copy of a copy, reaching thousands weekly

Pre-internet DIY labels were economically precarious and required supplementary income to survive

Pre-trained RAVE streaming models are available for immediate use without training

Procedural audio synthesises sounds algorithmically from parameters rather than replaying recordings

Processing provides point, line, rect, ellipse, and bezier as core drawing primitives

Processing requires explicit data types — int, float, and boolean serve different numeric purposes

Processing separates fill, stroke, and strokeWeight into independent state settings

Processing specifies colour as additive RGB values (0–255 per channel) with an optional alpha channel

Processing's if-else structures let programs branch based on relational expressions

Professionals hedge deliverables with recall notes and alternate versions