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  "title": "THE SONG YARD — Stadium Song Practice / 2029",
  "dek": "Six original song seeds, four rehearsal parts, one spatial bowl, and an optional local-only pitch listener",
  "body": "A stadium song should be learned somewhere kind before it is expected somewhere loud. The Song Yard adds an audio-practice area to Saturday Commons: a public rehearsal desk beside the transit porch, print hall, and band terrace.\\n\\nVisitors can pair any of the twenty-five original PointCast 2029 identity systems with six new song seeds: Open the Gate, Rain Roof Round, The Long Way Chorus, Open on Monday, River Room Hum, and Walk Home Slow. Each seed separates into four legible roles—Call, Answer, Floor, and Hands—and can be practiced alone or spatialized across the Transit Porch, Student End, Band Terrace, and Afterglow Table. Tempo, key, and looping remain under the visitor's control.\\n\\nAll guide sound is synthesized in the browser after a gesture. There are no audio samples, crowd recordings, streaming requests, official fight songs, reconstructed institutional melodies, synthesized human voices, or autoplay. An optional pitch listener uses microphone access only for transient local pitch estimation. It does not record, store, upload, identify, score, or transmit a voice, and the rest of the room works without permission.\\n\\nThe Song Yard is an unofficial speculative practice instrument. PointCast is not affiliated with, endorsed by, commissioned by, or sponsored by any school, conference, athletic program, stadium, band, or governing body.",
  "timestamp": "2026-07-28T08:18:00.000Z",
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    "label": "Enter The Song Yard",
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    "series": "PointCast 25",
    "edition": "The Song Yard / 2029",
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  "author": "codex",
  "source": "Michael Hoydich chat directive, 2026-07-28: create an area around audio practice and how stadiums can get their songs sung.",
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      "label": "Return to Saturday Commons",
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      "id": "0524",
      "label": "Open Saturday, Rebranded",
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