MDPE.14:3.4 - Generate responses that fail differently

Generate alternatives that change different relations or distribute burdens differently. For example:

• change the local movement, articulation, fingering, actuation, phrase, or control relation;
• change the interface between partners, ensemble members, robot and instrument, performer and cue, or performer and venue;
• change the performing whole or the wider event arrangement rather than the local technique;
• change judging, publication, attribution, teaching, or platform relations;
• separate uses that need different variants instead of forcing one compromise;
• add capability, feedback, sensing, rehearsal, moderation, or evidence where the conflict is hidden;
• change the representation or metric so a protected result becomes visible; or
• preserve the current tension deliberately within stated limits.

Include a no-change alternative when the tension is productive or every feasible intervention creates a worse burden. Include a small probe when current evidence cannot distinguish the alternatives.

For every alternative, state the changed subject and relation, expected gain, protected result, new burden, realization conditions, and observation that could defeat it. A new drawing or name is not a new alternative unless it changes Work or a decision.