The filter is the product
I have ADHD and a sensitivity to sound so precise it can be physically disarming.
For years I looked for a meditation I could stay inside. Binaural tones landed like nails on a blackboard. Counted breathing needled — a tempo set before I got there, which I was always half a second behind. Singing bowls braced me before the second strike. White noise was a wall of static I had to sit through.
What I couldn't ignore was that the same track settles one person and braces another, and the difference sits in the production every time. The density of the narration. Whether the tempo holds. What happens in the last two minutes. It's a production problem, and nobody is treating it as one.
So I wrote the standard down, and I am building the programme to it.
Every instrument, every tempo, every anchoring frequency, every lyric has to pass one test before it reaches a listener. Eyes closed. One question: does this settle, or does this brace.
If it takes convincing, it gets replaced.