I don’t use twtxt anymore, but I keep accidentally adding logs to it because the command I use to use !say is so similar to the shortcut I use to make !zet messages. So, some of my logs make no sense because they are out of context.

I think I’m going to create some boilerplate code for !gestku that isn’t ad-hoc. I think I’m ready for this. Gestkus need less code because of how quickly I want to make them.

Note: this seems to be for male chorus, and isn’t the arrangement that I hear in the sixteen recording.

going back to vim. #updates

trying to justify using tinyscheme, lua, and LIL at the same time.

Fossil Repo containing a version of the TH1 scripting language [[https://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/th1-sgb/index.cgi/wiki/th1-sgb]] #links

the bright sessions. a science fiction podcast [[https://www.thebrightsessions.com/season-one]] #links

fake english word generation for Go and CLI: [[https://github.com/nwtgck/go-fakelish]] #links

a zero dependency shell script that makes it really simple to manage your text notes [[https://github.com/nickjj/notes]] #links

Ask HN: most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software? [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306651]] #links

old school dinner rolls [[https://smittenkitchen.com/2021/10/old-school-dinner-rolls/]] #links #food

a close look at a spinlock [[https://blog.regehr.org/archives/2173]] #links

decentralized P2P messaging platform that works on a LAN. [[https://briarproject.org/]] #links

I don’t know how to browse the web anymore. [[https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/i-don-t-know-how-to-browse-the-internet-anymore]] #links

Article on designing 21st century instruments for teaching music theory (aka ditch the piano): [[https://historyofmusictheory.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/should-we-burn-the-pianos-introducing-a-collaborative-project-focused-on-building-new-instruments-for-theory/]] #links

twigl: shader code editor [[https://twigl.app/]] #links

cylob: some interesting work with vocal synthesis. [[https://cylob.bandcamp.com/album/placeholder]] #links

breakdown of a synthwave track [[https://synthctrl.com/blogs/blog/gunship-tech-noir-breakdown]] #links

cool fractal video [[https://vimeo.com/3288925]] #links

squinewave: a sine-square-saw-pulse oscillator with hardsync: [[https://github.com/required-field/squinewave]] #links

DX7 Technical Analysis [[https://ajxs.me/blog/Yamaha_DX7_Technical_Analysis.html]] #links

introducing: the !trikuf. code samples included. #halfbakedideas

trikuf: 3x3 tiles that comply with geometric square kufic rules, as seen in !kuf. #halfbakedideas

timeline of audio formats [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_audio_formats]] #links

I think the forth-lisp works if you think of it as a forth by default that pushes and pops s-expressions. #halfbakedideas

building a Forth that sits alongside a LISP. If it’s not an S-expression, it gets interpreted as a word. #halfbakedideas

oh boy, I’m looking at !minilisp and I have to say I’m inspired to try and hack on it somehow #halfbakedideas

netsurf browser with the framebuffer backend is very impressive. it actually looks better than the GTK one, which is messed up and renders things too small with too small icons.

I have now created a log documenting my attempts at making fudge: !fudgelog

been thinking way too much about a musical morse code system over the past 24 hours: !musigram

dutifully taking notes for !novembeat_2021

updated my !now page.

The !websters1913 dictionary is truly remarkable.

damn. almost friggin done with #looptober. what an exhausting experience.

Prof. Jellywhipple’s Ultra-Fantastic Computer Music Time Loop #halfbakedideas

It’s been a crazy few weeks. Will need to spend some time refocusing.

new algo in #sndkit @!(sndkitref “sparse”)!@ is a sparse noise generator, similar to velvet noise, that produces a random series of impulses at a specified rate in Hz.

thinking about a building something in the realm of !gesture that could work alongside !gest. The core principle of gest is line construction using breakpoints and an external clock. This new system, which I think I will call sloop, is more about making lines using slope. It would work by sending it messages: go from here, to there, in some amount of time, and use an external clock. If it reaches there, you have arrived. If a new message arrives before you get there, you are already here, now you have a new there. I think this approach would lend itself well to more open-ended kinds of gestures. #halfbakedideas

Obfuscated drum synthesis in C !tinydrums

I need to remind myself that I own an !arduboy. Arduboys are cool.

new !sndkit algo: @!(sndkitref “clkphs”)!@.

lots of work gets done when you are on a mountain

did I mention yet that gest has a TODO page now? !gest_TODO

phew. took me long enough, but I finally got an initial draft for using the monome grid in C directly via libmonome: !grid_tutorial

play/pause/stop is not a great interaction, but it does count. thinking of interactive music as a gradient rather than a dichotomy (interactive vs non-interactive) seems like a healthier way to think about things. #halfbakedideas

initial timekeeping implemented in !zet this morning. right now there’s only a means of clocking in/out and saving the data, and not much else. but it is basically the last thing I’d need in order to replace org agenda.

creating vocal tract shapes using the monome grid, and then morphing between them using something like !gest. #halfbakedideas

musical experience that involve harvesting, farming, growth, and caretaking of virtual musical creatures with personality. creatures would socialize with eachother and their interactions would change the overall musical sounds implicitely. #halfbakedideas

implicit music, or the idea that music naturally exudes from everything. composition is not the act of making music, but of starting with music and working backwards. #halfbakedideas

feeling good about !gest today. nearly ready to actually use it.

lots of activity in !gest. no longer is it one of the #halfbakedideas.

my little travel pillow arrived today for my feet while sitting in the meditation bench. paired with my foam pad for my knees, I think I can begin trying to test this out for my future portable kneeling workspace. #updates #halfbakedideas

make time for myself in order to write words and code for !gest.

conceptualizing the monome grid as a highly accurate low-density monochrome display #halfbakedideas

new recipe added to the !food page: !brownies.

new !sndkit algorithm: @!(sndkitref “blep”)!@.

on a monome 16x8 grid, you can get 10 consecutive 3x3 blocks in a 2x5 configuration. what’s left is a narrow 1x vertical strip, and a 2x horizontal strip. interesting divisions for a glyph based interface with controls. #halfbakedideas

got #libreElec to work today. My Pi4 feels a bit more useful now.

low-res hard-edged SDFs in btprnt. mainly as a way to compose organic looking geometry. #halfbakedideas

I want to somehow use my monome grid to build out coarse vocal tract shapes for a physical model like !voc or @!(sndkitref “tract”)!@. 16 diameters with 8 steps of resolution, or 32 diameters with 4 steps of resolution. #halfbakedideas

new algo in sndkit: @!(sndkitref “tract”)!@, a physical model of the vocal tract.

added a !projects page. it’s dynamically generated :)

created a !now page.

@!(sndkitref “glottis”)!@ is an analytical model that approximates the kind of sound the human glottis makes, and is now available as a sndkit model. This is extracted from the !voc project.

made a quick page for !vocshape

okay. I didn’t get the PhD position. oh well. #updates

life decisions approaching. any day now. depending on the outcome, it’ll range from major to huge. #updates

feels good to finally chip away at !voc. down to less than 500 LOC.

I finally got around to writing down some audio programming tips for people starting out @!(ref “audio_programming_recipe”)!@.

cinnamon rolls today. waiting for Iceland to get back to me.

I’m back on twitter, kind of. I’m only using it to mirror posts from my mastodon account: [[https://twitter.com/yesthiswaspaul]].

new !sndkit algorithm: @!(sndkitref “env”)!@.

Learned how to make baguettes last week: !baguette.

many examples of #metapost with pictures [[http://tex.loria.fr/prod-graph/zoonekynd/metapost/metapost.html]] #links

the croissant circle of life @!(ref “croissant_circle_of_life”)!@.

I think I’m done trying to be social on twtxt. This is too hard. Enjoy my read-only feed?

created an overview page on patch hotswapping in !monolith the #monolithwiki: @!(monolithref “hotswapping”)!@.

published @!(sndkitref “chorus”)!@ to !sndkit.

the ‘magic circle’ sine wave algorithm: [[https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Digital_Sinusoid_Generators.html]] #links

lol inner joins are slow. learned that the fun way.

2-bit audio gives you DC. I like having DC.

the !sndkit_TODO page is back online.

some words today on installing monolith. I still wouldn’t recommend it: @!(monolithref “install”)!@.

1bitr is a one-bit text-based music tracker [[https://github.com/zserge/1bitr]]. #links

I just want to make cute cuddly characters that sing a chitter. I don’t know how else to say this.

bottled a traditional mead today, but it was the wrong one so a little premature.

inspired by sigrid’s now page. I probably should be doing that more here [[http://ftrv.se/now]]. #links

ECHO: the music of harold budd and brian eno [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Dm-ne-iSY]] #links

how to code a siren, done 6 ways @!(sndkitref “siren”)!@.

using a forked version of ed to do live coding #halfbakedideas

finally go around to completing my !donutmuffins recipe.

added some more words to the !LIL page.

added a new algo to sndkit @!(sndkitref “scale”)!@.

my tiny screen can comfortably display a text block of 45 lines with a maximum length of 79 characters. wonder what kind of information is possible to convey with that kind of information density… #halfbakedideas

my !cinnamon_rolls recipe is now in a good place.

an initial recipe for making fresh !pasta. pictures to come.

making great progress getting interactive sound and video working on android. it’s a setup I wish I had 5 years ago.

feels good to be using tmux again more regularly. ansi-term in emacs is well, special.

new monolith wiki page on FM: @!(monolithref “FM”)!@.

added biramp to sndkit: @!(sndkitref “biramp”)!@.