Day 3 of 30 Days

Day 3 of 30 Days of Real Business Problems: Before Bar One

A rehearsal can lose valuable time before the first note is played.

Ensemble parts sometimes come from structurally incompatible editions. Everything appears correct until one player reaches a rehearsal mark eight measures before or after everyone else.

I designed and built Before Bar One, a working prototype that checks whether every part follows the same structural route before rehearsal begins.

In the demonstration, the Horn in F part uses edition 1987-F, while the rest of the ensemble uses 2001-R. The system finds an eight-measure divergence after rehearsal mark C and turns it into a visible rupture.

The user then switches editions through a physical routing interaction. The missing measures return, and all five parts arrive at D together.

The prototype uses synthetic local edition metadata and does not claim to parse or verify real published scores. The goal was to demonstrate an honest, distinctive interaction model for a real operational problem.

Research → product thesis → interaction design → React/TypeScript prototype → Remotion film.

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