06A / Bragi / Scoring stage

Bragi

Score the emotional shape.

Bragi composes frame-accurate film music against picture—editable in MIDI, continuous across the story, and delivered as synchronized stems for the final mix.

Receives / Locked picture and narrative waveformDelivers / Music stems and score data

Concept visualization of the locked pavilion image surrounded by physical tonal bands, recurring motif structures, hit points, and stem-like slabs.

The scoring stage

Music is architecture against picture.

A film score is not a generated song. It follows dramatic form rather than verse and chorus, remembers themes across hours, lands musical events on exact frames, and leaves space for dialogue and sound.

Bragi keeps creative decisions in symbolic, editable form. Harmony, melody, rhythm, orchestration, tempo, articulation, and thematic memory remain available for direction before audio is rendered.

One score / editable decisions

The machine can compose. The filmmaker can still touch the music.

Bragi turns picture, narrative shape, dialogue windows, themes, and hit points into symbolic score data before rendering sound. A composer can inspect and change the same tempo, harmony, melody, rhythm, voicing, and orchestration that automation uses.

01 / ListenPicture intentWaveform, dialogue, themes
02 / MapTempo + hit pointsExact picture constraints
03 / ComposeSymbolic scoreHarmony, melody, rhythm
04 / RefineVoices + motifOrchestrate and transform
05 / StemOpen deliveryMIDI, data, timecoded audio

Concept study of a human composer shaping tempo, harmony, motif, rhythm, and orchestration as physical structures beneath locked picture.

01 / The composition

Music stays legible before it becomes sound.

Tempo, harmony, melody, rhythm, thematic memory, and orchestration remain structured decisions rather than one opaque audio result. A composer can direct a phrase, change a voice, or reshape a cue without starting over.

Memory: Themes recur and transform
Edit: Symbolic MIDI and score data

Concept study of a picture-locked cue with hit points, a transforming motif, changing tempo structure, and independent stem layers reviewed by a composer.

02 / The cue

Every musical event knows the frame.

Hit points constrain a flexible tempo map; the cue leaves deliberate space for dialogue and sound; the motif changes without losing identity. Independent stems keep the composition open through the final mix.

Sync: SMPTE and frame-level constraints
Delivery: Editable data and BWF stems

A generated cue is a beginning, not a verdict

Bragi exposes the musical structure a composer or director needs to judge. Human refinement and automated composition meet in the same editable score, with the final authority staying with the film.

Composition architecture

Creative decisions stay symbolic until the score is rendered.

01 / PictureLocked OTIO
Cut-stage waveform, dialogue windows, cue intent, hit points, themes, and SMPTE frame structure.
02 / ConductScore conductor
Tempo map, cue boundaries, thematic deployment, silence, and frame-level constraints.
03 / ComposeMusical engines
Harmony, melody, rhythm, thematic memory, variation, and emotional curves remain editable.
04 / OrchestrateVoices + synthesis
Instrument assignment, articulations, voice leading, MIDI rendering, and swappable sound generation.
05 / DeliverMusic stems
Independent parts, score data, tempo, cues, and timecoded audio stay open for the dubbing stage.

Music contractsMIDI · MusicXML · SMPTE · BWF WAV 48 kHz / 24-bit · iXML

The composition

Compose. Remember. Deliver.

01 / Compose

Write to the cut.

Emotional curves, dialogue windows, tempo, harmony, melody, rhythm, orchestration, and hit points share one SMPTE timeline.

02 / Remember

Let themes develop.

Leitmotifs recur, transform, and accumulate meaning across the complete film instead of resetting at every cue.

03 / Deliver

Keep the mix open.

Independent instrumental stems, MIDI, and score representations remain editable for filmmakers, musicians, and the dubbing stage.

The handoff

The score arrives ready to mix.

Bragi receives

Locked picture, story shape, themes, and silence.

Saga supplies one clock; Mimir carries narrative context, dialogue windows, and the score's relationship with sound.

Bragi delivers

Editable music locked to the frame.

BWF stems, MIDI, tempo, themes, and cue records reach the dubbing stage with SMPTE timecode intact.

Parallel craft / Branch 06B