Third Opal in a row and the first on the main stage. Saturday 8 Aug 2026,
sunset slot, 1h20, 15 tracks of live-coded TidalCycles.
tracks.json is GENERATED, not typed — Sound/Tidal/tools/gig-metadata.py reads
membership/order/name/bpm/section from backlog.md via the setlist parser, the
sample packs from each .tidal via setlist_samples, and the timecodes from the
Ardour take. Nothing here was copied by hand, which is the point: the last time
gig strings were hand-carried between files they were wrong.
The per-track timecodes are new for a lives entry and deliberate — they let
Shipow cut Slopmotion visuals to the set without re-deriving boundaries by ear.
They were measured by aligning the 1 Hz gig log to the audio via
cross-correlation (r>=0.99 over 20 probes, 0.00 ms spread).
Note for whoever touches lives content next: the live tree is content/lives/,
NOT content/parvagues/lives/ (legacy, last moved by the June hoist) and not
next/content/lives/ (the path Sound/Tidal/CLAUDE.md still documents — stale
since the app moved out of next/).
