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We build the things we’d want to exist anyway.

An audio engine that explains every decision, a very small bird with two records and a storybook, and the notes on how each was made.

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Wings & Prayers album cover: a young pilot in a navy cap looks to the sky, a small bluebird in aviator goggles on her shoulder, a WP-marked propeller plane overhead at sunset.

Wings & Prayers · The Little Blue Pilot · 11 Aug 2026 · track 01, as released

First Wings, the final chorus

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01 / Selected work

Made here. Out in the world.

Two projects, each shown as what it is: the paintings, the measurements and the sound, from the files the rest of the site cites.

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02 / Software & sound

In progress

Hear the work. Inspect the why.

WPAudio Enginev0.1.0a2

An explainable audio analysis and mastering engine, where every decision answers what, why and how.

Proved on the pilot's first record: twelve pre-masters in, twelve reference masters out, every number measured from the files this site serves. The loudness spread across the album narrowed from 4.6 LU to 2.7 LU, and no master peaks above −1.1 dBTP.

Integrated loudness of all twelve tracks, original and reference masterTwelve pairs of bars from a floor of -20 LUFS to a ceiling of -8 LUFS. The originals arrived between −18.2 and −13.6 LUFS; the reference masters left between −12.9 and −10.2 LUFS, every one above the −14 LUFS the platforms normalise to. Each pair links to its song page, which carries the full measurement.
Original Reference master −14 LUFS, the level the platforms normalise toEvery number, and the audio

The listening bench · track 01 · First Wings

Same song. Listen for the decisions.

Version
0:00 / 0:15

Original
−14.0 LUFS
−4.3 dBTP
Master
−8.8 LUFS
−1.1 dBTP
Level-matched: the master plays 5.2 dB quieter, so switching compares the mastering, not the volume. Some mobile browsers fix media volume, and there the master plays at its full level.

03 / The next question

JetLabs is an open bench.

Planned

The bench is empty: no experiments published yet, and no pretending otherwise.

How one would arrive

How the Studio works

We learn. We build.We document. We share.

The engine was built to master the record. The record is the engine's proof. The writing is what both taught. Nothing here is called finished unless it has shipped.

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04 / The notebook

What the work taught us.

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The Little Blue Pilot

Second Flight: Another Way to Fly

The destination stayed the same: twelve songs, one journey and one little blue pilot. Second Flight took another route through the material and showed that repetition does not have to mean replacement.

  • Creative Engineering
  • Software Architecture
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What the projects taught, written so it can be used elsewhere.

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Also in the notebook

Notes from the sky4 skiesOrion, Leo, the Summer Triangle and the Great Square: the stories told about them, what the stars are, and how to find them yourself.

05 / From the workbench

Small steps. Written down.

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