open-standards/wai/extensions/score.md
Transaction Science cd6dcf41bb SPEC §7 Signatures: the one Ed25519 rule, cited by the receipt extensions
Every Ed25519 signature WAI defines is verified strictly, in order: a canonical
key, a key not of small order, S < L, R not of small order, and the cofactorless
equation with R compared byte for byte. OER/2's chain signature keeps the rule
oer-receipts §5 settles. jwp-receipts §3.1 step 3, http-delivery's playlist
receipt and packaging's receipt cite it instead of restating it; the worlds,
avatars, feeds, spatial-audio, haptics, volumetric, score, film, provenance,
ternary and quantum receipt texts cite it where they name their signature.
CHANGELOG records the sweep.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-07 14:39:04 -04:00

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# WAI Extension: Score (Music as Instructions)
> Status: Draft. Phase 6 — the deepest audio lever. Ship the
> composition, not the recording: a score of note events the sink
> synthesizes. Conformance is **mixdown-equivalence**, the music
> counterpart of spatial audio. Reference impl: the `score` feature of
> `wai-rs`; corpus: `score-conformance/`; live sink:
> wai.transaction.science/score.
Keywords **MUST**, **MUST NOT**, **SHOULD**, **MAY** are RFC 2119/8174.
## 1. Scope and model
A `wai.audio.score` object carries **no recorded audio** — only note
events. Where `wai.audio.scene` mixes recorded sound *objects*, a score
is reconstructed from instructions: a deterministic reference synth
turns the notes into a canonical PCM mixdown, and a sink with a richer
instrument (soundfont, neural) renders the same score for presentation.
It is lever 3 (instructions-at-the-sink) for music — a minute of music
is kilobytes of notes, not megabytes of samples.
In scope: the container, the note model, the deterministic reference
synthesis, the **mixdown-equivalence** conformance criterion, the
receipt profile. Out of scope: a transport; the sink's instrument
(soundfonts, neural synths — presentation, not conformance); MIDI-file
import (an authoring concern).
Relationship to the core spec: mirrors spatial audio. The reconstruct
runs in the `wai.det.fixed64` floor; `media` takes the value `"audio"`;
`wai.audio.score` is authoritative.
## 2. Container (`WSCR`)
```
"WSCR" | u16 n_sections | section table (u8 kind, u32 off, u32 len) | sections
```
| kind | section | required |
|---|---|---|
| `0x01` | contract (canonical JSON) | REQUIRED |
| `0x02` | note events | REQUIRED |
### 2.1 Contract
```json
{ "channels": 1, "duration": 34000, "numeric": "wai.det.fixed64",
"sample_rate": 22050 }
```
`duration` is the rendered mixdown length in samples.
### 2.2 Notes
`n_notes u32`, then per note (65 bytes):
`start u64 | dur u64 | phase_inc i64 Fx | gain i64 Fx | waveform u8 |
attack u64 | decay u64 | sustain i64 Fx | release u64`.
`phase_inc` is the per-sample phase advance `freq / sample_rate`,
authored off-line from the pitch — so the floor never evaluates an
exponential to turn a note into a frequency (the same authoring
discipline as the avatar quaternion). `waveform` selects a reference
timbre: `0` saw, `1` square, `2` triangle, `3` 25%-pulse.
## 3. Reference synthesis (trig-free)
For each note, a phase accumulator advances by `phase_inc` each sample
(wrapping at `1.0`); a **piecewise-linear** oscillator maps the phase to
`[-1, 1]` (no trig); a **linear ADSR** envelope (attack ramp → decay to
`sustain` → held until `dur` → release to zero over `release`) scales
it; the result times `gain` accumulates into the mixdown buffer. Each
output sample is quantized to `i16` (`round(v · 32767)`, half away from
zero, clamped) in integer space. The whole path is `+ − × ÷` in the
`Fx` floor — bit-identical on every machine.
## 4. Conformance — mixdown-equivalence
> Given the same `wai.audio.score`, a conforming sink MUST reconstruct
> the identical canonical `i16` PCM via the reference synth, hence the
> identical BLAKE3 — on every machine, no tolerance parameter.
```
mixdown_hash = BLAKE3("wai:score-mixdown\x01" || i16le PCM)
score_hash = BLAKE3("wai:score\x01" || contract || notes) // identity
```
A sink MAY play a soundfont/neural instrument instead; that is
presentation and does not affect conformance, exactly as the audio-scene
HRTF render or the worlds renderer does not.
## 5. Receipt (JWP profile)
`score_hash` is the identity; the group's objects are the mix PCM blocks
(per a fixed sample span), Merkle-bound; one Ed25519 signature (verified as
SPEC §7 *Signatures* requires) over score_hash + root + exact work (= duration × notes) + carried
`joules_micro`; `parent_receipt_hash` chains — the worlds/audio receipt
shape reused. The figure's acquisition class rides beside it as an optional signed label
([energy-measurement](energy-measurement.md) §2.8): absent, the receipt keeps
its legacy bytes and the figure is unlabelled; present, it is inside the
signature. The reference meter labels every figure it measures
`OnChipCounter`, with its declared uncertainty.
## Appendix
Mixdown-equivalence is spatial audio's criterion with the recorded
objects replaced by note events: both render a deterministic `i16` mix
in the `Fx` floor and hash it. The score is the most extreme
instructions-at-the-sink case in audio — there is no recording anywhere
in the payload, only the composition. Sight, hearing, touch, motion,
state, captured-content provenance — and now the composition itself —
are one floor, one verification.