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Orca programs

Orca is an esotheric “programming language”. To livecode music with.

Ran fluidsynth to actually generate sound with it, you’ll have to find a .sf2 file, the one i used came from here.

SF="$1"
if [ "$SF" == "" ]; then
    SF=/usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GM.sf2
fi

fluidsynth -is -a pulseaudio -m alsa_seq -r 48000 "$SF"


Actual orca programs

Not saying they’re any good. (or bad)

Field readable

🎞️/notes/sounds/orca/field_readable_letters.mp4 O input coordinates goes around using modulo via T to select and a system to add values to an existing value. T is also used to figure the note. Added another note player that mucks with the coordinates a bit.

Made other “landscapes” for it too. And one that got similar but read out three positions two for a new position and another for the note. However, it seemed to jump around a bit too eratically.

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Night mice

Uses X to write out comments to start and stop other processes as they’re going. 🎞️ night_mice.mp4

First one self_feed_messier.orca

🎞️ Either a wall of sound or music

The top reads from further down producing the signal, also it uses F to compare notes and trigger things down there. Also at the bottom there is a thing that does a thing for a while after getting a signal. To be honest, this sort of thing gets a little vague for me on how it exactly works.

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