Broadcast
personality / transmission
00 · Why a listening room
Coordinates, not a blueprint.
A Million Scattered Pieces is a publishing and research space for projects that move through more than one form—images, writing, sound, references, experiments, and work that is still becoming itself.
A listening room gives an edition one public shelf for the records, tracks, fragments, and sonic references surrounding the work without pretending they are a soundtrack or a set of instructions.
This first room introduces Chance of Katz. Cats fall through an exact grid while weather language—forecast, pressure, danger, heavy catfall—gives the system its straight-faced logic. The game-making is still in progress, and this room is part of that process rather than documentation of a finished object.
These are coordinates, not a blueprint.
01 · The umbrella ☂️
Conditions are present
The umbrella started with the name. Chance of Katz already sounds like a weather report—chance of rain, chance of snow, chance of something coming down. The umbrella just makes that visible.
It is not meant to be a mascot or a cute cat logo. It behaves more like a weather-service symbol, an airport-display glyph, or a small piece of instrument-panel notation: simple, functional, almost official.
The umbrella is not protection. It is notation.
02 · The ghost piece
Research opened by play.
Access to the near future
Derek’s playtest note about the landing guide—that it prevents an off-by-one drop and functions as an accessibility advantage—opened a separate research path.
In falling-block games the guide is usually called a ghost piece or shadow. Arika’s Tetris: The Grand Master uses the wonderfully bureaucratic name Temporary Landing System (T.L.S.) and shows it only up to level 100. Past that point the game keeps the piece, keeps the grid, and takes the forecast away.
A forecast here isn’t probability. It’s access to the near future.
The engine knows where the piece is going. The design question is how much of that knowledge the player receives—landing position, next piece, perhaps later pieces beyond that. The research becomes a way of thinking about visibility, information, pressure, and preparation.
03 · Start with the playlist
One continuous player. Nine listening coordinates.
Listen together
The music came first as a prompt for listening together and starting a conversation with Derek about what Chance of Katz might sound and feel like.
It is not a soundtrack assignment. These records are starting points—a way to talk about rhythm, atmosphere, repetition, memory, transmission, and the strange tone the game is beginning to find.
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04 · Visual coordinates
Three openings
Stereolab
motion / repetition
Boards of Canada
atmosphere / memory
Three sleeves as visual coordinates, not a mood board: graphic systems, texture, repetition, memory, signal.
1 — personality / transmission
Broadcast
Fragments, signals, repetitions, interruptions, and unfinished states. The useful connection is not imitation; it is permission to think across different states of material.
- 01
Come On Let’s Go
- 02
Echo’s Answer
- 03
Papercuts
Broadcast’s world extends beyond the original albums into demos, rarities, session recordings, miniature pieces, and material gathered back into circulation later. Fragments and unfinished material can become another way into the work.
Open the Broadcast archive / starting-points shelf →Keep open
This room can change
Add anything that feels adjacent—records, loops, fragments, field recordings, things that only make sense for ten seconds.
The room is part of the process, not documentation of a finished object.
Before public launch · decisions and risks
- Confirm Derek Jerome’s credit and approve the description of his role.
- Decide whether the room is a dated edition snapshot or a living page with a visible change log.
- Replace hot-linked sleeve images or document permission/attribution before indexing.
- Confirm every Spotify, YouTube, Bandcamp, album, and archive link immediately before launch.
- Room 000 links are disabled. The former public address
https://boulder-tanker-ac7.notion.site/Lake-Listeningreturns “This page couldn’t be found.” The page exists in the workspace as Notion page ID3b42ca26-131a-8101-bf02-dc00407a875f. Publish Lake Listening to the web, test its public URL in an incognito window, then restore the Room 000 links. Do not paste anapp.notion.comworkspace URL into the public site; visitors may be asked to sign in. - Broadcast shelf URL verified. Swapped from
app.notion.com/p/…to the publicnotion.siteaddress and opened successfully without a sign-in prompt. - YouTube labels corrected. Four destinations are search-results pages, not videos, and are now labelled “YouTube search”: Broadcast — Come On Let’s Go; Broadcast — Echo’s Answer; Stereolab — French Disko; Stereolab — Ping Pong. Replace each with a direct video URL only after opening and confirming it.
- Five direct YouTube video links verified against YouTube metadata on August 25, 2026.
- Keep the Spotify player click-to-load, or decide whether the convenience of immediate loading outweighs the privacy and performance cost.
- Add text transcripts or descriptions whenever original audio, field recordings, or spoken material enters the room.
- Provide the playable Chance of Katz game URL when a public build exists.
- Create a 1200×630 social-preview image using art Jay owns or has permission to publish.
- Choose whether anonymous, privacy-respecting analytics are useful; do not add surveillance by default.
- Remove noindex only after rights, credits, links, navigation, and the custom domain are approved.