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This blue folder just arrived from Social

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Software at UCLA.

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Inside is Scores for Social Software, a

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spring 2026 edition of 64 hand-produced artist

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scores.

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This is copy #51, assembled after ten

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weeks of making, testing, and performing together.

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I’m Jeffrey Alan Scudder.

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My contribution is Notepat, a folded white

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research paper that combines an illustrated player,

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a QR code, instructions, and circular keyboard

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diagrams.

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Æther Cavendish’s Vigil Score arrives as a

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matte-black folded packet, closed with a small

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circular silver seal.

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Chelly Jin’s Software as a Choreography presents

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a grid of silhouetted hands and arms,

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pairing each gesture with marks for timing

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and movement.

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Jordan Silver’s Sonic Architecture is a single

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sheet of printed columns, large numbers, and

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typewritten commands, anchored by a looping spiral

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diagram for inhabiting and measuring space through

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sound.

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Em Lugo’s Cues for Losing Direction fits

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on a small black card, its title

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set in pale condensed type like a

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portable instruction carried in the hand.

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Darlyn Phan’s Line Piece 1 begins on

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translucent white paper.

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Its faint rainbow cast and minimal title

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let the page behave like a line

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or veil.

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Thomas Noya’s Biophonía is a branching field

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of blue, yellow, black, and beige organic

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forms.

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In the video, these cell-like clusters drift

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and reorganize.

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Banyi Huang’s A Cosmographic Score for Folding

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Back into the Kernel centers a luminous

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circle and a small diagram of connected

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nodes inside a lavender field.

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Alexander Espinosa’s Music for World Computers is

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a white typographic score: awake, expand, decrease,

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oxygen, forest, junk, cinnamon, hammer.

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Mavyn Vu’s The Radio Is an Altar:

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Portal combines translucent blue and white score

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cards, a target-like radio image, small figures,

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and instructions arranged around their edges.

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Casey Reas facilitated the cycle, with Lauren

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Lee McCarthy and the Social Software community.

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Together, the contributions open many paths through

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a question: if software organizes behavior, what

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else can we ask it to organize?

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If you’re watching this and know any

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of the artists involved, feel free to

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ask them to see their envelope.

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Each artist received two editions as part

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of the project: one to keep and

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one to distribute.

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This is Jeffrey.

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Thanks for watching, and a friendly goodbye

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from me and the Social Software Cohort

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2.