Christopher Woodyard / captain of my soul
Five notes.One chord.
I make strange things and test whether they work.
Research systems that keep their evidence. Artificial worlds where humans and AI play by the same rules. Experiments in physics, intelligence, perception, and resonance.
And when code isn’t the right medium, I write poems, paint, and make music as Indigo People.
The medium changes. The question usually doesn’t:
What happens if we actually try it?
Enter the instrument adds sound. You can turn it off at any time.
NowCIRCLE Rev B, waiting on its review gates before anything touches skin.
Selected work / 01—05
Find your frequency.
Five instruments, one practice. Pick one, or keep scrolling and listen for where they repeat each other.
Writing
Verse first. Then papers that say how they could be wrong.
Life of a Line
2021Status: PublishedThirty pages of introspective verse, in paperback.
Location Is a Dynamic Variable
2026Status: PreprintWhat if location belonged to the object, not to the space around it?
A run of preprints on Dynamic Location Theory. Physics that names its own tests: a follow-up uses 2024–25 atomic-clock comparisons to put an upper bound on the coupling constant the theory depends on.
Carries Provenance · Resonance
Location is a property of the object.
Instruments
Tools that measure something and keep the receipts, including the ones that say no.
CIRCLE
Rev BStatus: Open source · PrototypeCan a feedback system keep enough evidence to show why it acted?
Open biosignal hardware: skin conductance, raw optical pulse, and motion on one clock, with measurement, inference, and intervention recorded as different things.
Automated verification passes. Fabrication and human connection stay blocked until the review gates close.
Carries Provenance · Agency · Translation
Dynamic Resonance Rooting
2025–26Status: Open source · PaperWhat if a research framework published the test it failed?
A Python framework for rhythm and lag in multivariate time series. Its outputs are diagnostics, and the README says a lead–lag edge is not causation.
qbo_structural_change_benchmark.json → claim_status: not_supported
Carries Provenance · Resonance
R.A.I.N. Lab
2026Status: Live · Open sourceWhat if an answer could not authorize itself?
A local-first research room. Four constrained perspectives argue a question, quotes are checked against the source papers, and the disagreement stays in the transcript.
Its reading corpus includes the location and DRR papers.
Also sounds in 01 WritingCarries Provenance · Agency
Worlds
Simulated places where a person and an AI agent share the same controls, the same physics, and the same record.
Pine Gap
2026Status: Live · Open source · SimulationWhat happens when an AI agent has to obey the same physics as a person?
A browser-native reconstruction of the Pine Gap antennas. People, an agent, a scripted baseline, and replays share one input path and one 120 Hz physics loop, and every session exports as a trace.
The agent layer cannot move the player, touch the coffee, or mark a task done. Tests enforce it.
Also sounds in 05 MusicCarries Provenance · Agency
Lop Nur Twin
2026Status: Live · Open source · SimulationWhen a model wins 148 to 0, is that a finding about the model?
A desert airfield rebuilt only from cited public sources, and a game standing on the same geometry. A model in the player's seat went 148–0 without moving a metre. A few dozen lines of script went 153–0.
The finding was about the map.
Carries Provenance · Agency
Mannahatta
2026Status: Live · Open source · ExperimentCan one city block be read as what was, what is, and what could be?
Satellite land cover, a routed storm, and a counterfactual redesign under the same rain. Each frame is labelled with what it does not establish.
Carries Translation
Art
Paint, rooms, and sound you can look at.
Rooms
Status: ExhibitedA walkable gallery on Oncyber, and an artist feature with M.A.D.S. Art Gallery in Italy.
Cymatics
Status: LiveWhat does a word look like as a standing wave?
Type a word, hum a tone, or play a file. Twenty thousand particles settle into its pattern.
Carries Translation · Resonance
Signal Lab
Status: LiveA waveform console you play by scrolling.
Music
Indigo People. Written by Christopher Woodyard.
Green Machine
Status: RecordedFive tracks as Indigo People. The same album is the station on the car radio in Pine Gap, and the cover is a painting.
Also sounds in 03 Worlds · 04 ArtCarries Translation · Resonance
Intervals
Same question, another instrument.
A detected pattern cannot, by itself, establish its meaning for a person or permission to intervene.
Underneath / Research atlas
An idea is only
the beginning.
The papers and sources the work keeps returning to, his own preprints beside other people’s. Every stated link says why it is there.
Enter the research atlasA local catalog for discovery, not verification. Follow the original source before citing.