Song

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song

an open source song for norns

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower 
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 
And Eternity in an hour

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

abstract

much has been explored on norns with interactive instruments and tools, but what about a single static/pre-scripted/unchanging/microchanging composition? what possibilities exist within the context of a song? songs, of course, can be different each time they are played/performed…

auguries of innocence from william blake has really resonated with me this year. infinity in the palm of your hand is an apt metaphor for phones in 2020… i thought this would be a nice theme in the spirit of the perennial disquiet junto.

also props to to @Olivier for the exquisite script.

contributing

  • fork the repo
  • make any changes, additions, subtractions you wish
  • submit a pr
  • include an update to the below “changelog” section explaining what you did and why
  • optionally post your changelog on this thread back here
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#2

to start, i:

  • setup a global transport and examples for how to hook into it
  • wired up start/stop and restart for k2 and k3
  • set some basic poly perc stuff (someone, please rip this out and change it!)
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#3

new developments:

@infinitedigits - added sixteenth note transports. added in some melodies for quarter notes and sixteenth notes by transforming a recorded midi dump into lua code using soon-to-be released midi script extension for norns.
@Quixotic7 - replaced the polyperc engine with the bangs engine. This allows you to have different sounding note bangs. In the params menu you can change the synth parameters for 4 different synth sources. Sounds are banged by calling soundEngine:bang_note_hz(freq, synthId, midiId) and soundEngine:bang_note(noteNumber, synthId, midiId). Midi bangs only work if calling soundEngine:bang_note so the song currently only works with the internal synths since all the notes are frequencies.

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#4

Just added 16 step drum patterns.

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#5

various commits through today:

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#7

song is complete!

  • @tyleretters - init project, setup a global transport and examples for how to hook into it, wire up start/stop and restart for k2 and k3, set some basic poly perc stuff (someone, please rip this out and change it!)
  • @infinitedigits - added sixteenth note transports. added in some melodies for quarter notes and sixteenth notes by transforming a recorded midi dump into lua code using soon-to-be released midi script extension for norns.
  • @Quixotic7 - replaced the polyperc engine with the bangs engine. This allows you to have different sounding note bangs. In the params menu you can change the synth parameters for 4 different synth sources. Sounds are banged by calling soundEngine:bang_note_hz(freq, synthId, midiId) and soundEngine:bang_note(noteNumber, synthId, midiId). Midi bangs only work if calling soundEngine:bang_note so the song currently only works with the internal synths since all the notes are frequencies.
  • @license - was being a real prima donna about hz and changed them to MIDI notes.
  • @evancook aka evancook.audio added graphics that like to groove along to the measure number
  • @Quixotic7 - added drum patterns
  • @license - added some param setting stuff and a xox-step-pattern thing, plus some patterns, as well as a pretty naive Brownian motion generator. then added a “nervous” ting
  • @tyleretters - use norns clock and e2 to control bpm
  • @infinitedigits- added chords (Am, Em, F, G)
  • @tyleretters - rationalize bpm and terminology
  • @evancook - aka evancook.audio returned to revise the graphics and add a method by which the song ends
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