Four clocks negotiate a shared timeline. Drift is the enemy. Perfect sync is a living negotiation.

Open Sound Control — a network of named addresses carrying realtime data between creative applications. Click two nodes to route.

Musical Instrument Digital Interface — the language of electronic music performance. Note, velocity, CC, and clock data in motion.

SMPTE timecode — the universal production clock. LTC carries it on audio wire. MTC carries it through MIDI. Word Clock locks sample rates.

A production-grade AV rig is a network. Click a node to inspect. Simulate failure to see how dependent systems respond.

The conductor's interface. Fire scenes, ride faders, arm cues. A 32-bar loop that never stops.

Eight artists who built live systems worth studying — each a different answer to the question of what realtime orchestration can be.

The vocabulary of multi-system AV coordination — from the physical layer to the performance layer.