Cricket Tools: Real-Time Audio Scoring of Quantum State Evolution Across Networked Mobile Devices

This paper presents Cricket Tools, a browser based client- server system for distributed, real-time audio scoring and synchronized audio playback across mobile devices (phones, tablets) connected to the same local network. Cricket Tools supports two complementary approaches: (1) synchronized fixed-media playback (e.g., multi-part stems) and (2) parameterized, real-time audio scores in which each performer's device synthesizes an individualized audio guide. This second paradigm is designed for situations where the "score" is not a pre-rendered audio or video file but an evolving process controlled by a conductor or an interactive generative system. In the paper, we position Cricket Tools relative to prior work on audio and audiovisual scoring and distributed notation, drawing on Bhagwati's framework of audio scores and on Schimana's "sound as score" practice, as well as on Bell's SmartVox/SmartBox lineage of web-based distributed parts for ensemble rehearsal and performance. We also describe the system's architecture and timing approach, including a lightweight time-synchronization model and client-side scheduling for consistent playback across devices. As a use case, we outline a prototype in which features derived from quantum wavefunction evolution (magnitude/phase descriptors) are mapped to real-time audiovisual scoring parameters distributed to multiple players.