Performing with Monome Norns. Circuits With Feelings 06

Circuits with Feelings, VLOG 06. Tossing about the creative tension between feeling insignificant, yet being priceless to those who love us. Using the Chicago Marathon as the metaphor before we dive into the last installment on my performance approach. This time looking at using Monome Norns, running Orca, as a glorified Octatrack playing back stems from my track Crank, linked below:
open.spotify.com/track/2aoOSm...
/ dudadius

[@liveanddirect100]

great one!!!

[@Dudadius]

Thanks...it's been so long ago, I'm going to have to watch this to remember what the sam hell I did! HNY

[@mixednutt42]

This video was awesome. I loved all the exposition. And the music was wonderful as always. I'm a huge fan, sir. And the haircut looks good, you hippy! JK mad respect. I love hippies.

[@Dudadius]

Steve Newman Thanks so much!

[@williamthazard]

yet another use case for the norns I'd never considered before. Love this technique and the perspective you bring to bear on the norns and on music and time. Thanks for this

[@Dudadius]

Thanks for that!

[@beatsbykabuki]

Dude, what a beautiful place you got there!

[@medenine4828]

It is so refreshing to see someone talk about the social context around music and not ‘gear’ talk. I really enjoyed this video and look forward to watching more of your catalog. Well done, sir, subbed!

[@Dudadius]

wow, thank you!

[@medenine4828]

@@Dudadius are all the sounds from the Norns or is the Norns sequencing other gear?

[@Dudadius]

@@medenine4828 All of those sounds were samples loaded into Norns.

[@krachwerkstatt8112]

Well since you have no any dislike, this video couldn't be that great;) lol, man, such a fantastic peace of music. thanks for doing this!

[@Dudadius]

LOL! tnx.

[@mixednutt42]

I also really appreciate that you demystified the monome norns. Thank you. It still looks really complicated though :)

[@Dudadius]

Steve Newman Thanks. Norns: it really depends on the app you’re running. Most are very straight forward. Orca is...not so much🤓.

[@Krilin84]

The Norn is interesting but seems difficult. In any case I like what you produced, the sound and unpredictable arrangement, and also the philosophical thoughts on the marathon happening in the background. Best of luck. Following!

[@Dudadius]

Norns has many, many apps which are super accessible and fun to play with. The one I'm using here, Orca, is not one of those. Haha. Thanks for checking it out! Cheers.

[@sgraider2425]

Did you make a track with that loop towards he end of this video? I love it

[@Dudadius]

Yep, looper within Orca. Thanks for watching!

[@sergeypavlov9117]

Hello. cool video, awesome music. Where can I buy such a device?

[@Dudadius]

thanks! monome.org

[@DuncanFoster]

That's one hell of an Orca patch. I'd no idea that it could be used to build such complex tools. Did you develop it on Norns, or the desktop version and then port it across?

[@Dudadius]

Duncan Foster Yea, it’s a tad absurd. While I learned Orca on the Mac, I made this all on Norns. Only trick was making a list of all the variable assignments.

[@lillilelli]

Molto molto interessante

[@kostantinosmag2986]

Great

[@fernandapanda]

Can I write the orca program into my computer and then send to monome norm? Or do I need to write on that? because this option seems a nightmare hahahaha

[@Dudadius]

You have to create the Norns-based Orca patches on the Norns itself. 😂 But it's honestly not that bad. I found it helpful to make a spreadsheet or list to keep track of all the assignments. So 'a' is the clock pulse for a particular part, etc... You can also do a test run on the desktop app and then recreate it on Norns.

[@jorbbie]

Might you have an orca template/script/text file to run as a clip launcher for timber?

[@Dudadius]

sorry, Robbie, nothing like that. Just get in there and start hacking around!

[@lilskullymane4057]

this is sick. just getting into norns and orca is one of the coolest things i’ve ever seen. did you create that whole script yourself or are there templates out there to get you started?

[@Dudadius]

Thanks! No template. But once you get into it, it's fairly straight-forward.

[@lilskullymane4057]

Dudadius awesome! really nice work with it 🙂

[@somnambulantable]

Your hair! :O

[@djandyg_la]

Sounds good but looks complicated af

[@antennatrees]

Simpson’s Comic Book Guy : “Worst.Interface.Ever.” I usually love Monome design, but that ascii interface looks like a product that has simply crashed. If it’s trying for enigmatic hipster aesthetic then well done I guess. Good music though :)

[@Dudadius]

I think of it like the thrill of driving an old car. 😆

[@antennatrees]

@@Dudadius Maybe like driving an old car if the steering wheel was replaced with an abacus :P I know I'm being unfair. I've used plenty of obfuscated hardware interfaces, but this one just seems odd for Monome's minimalist style.

[@DuncanFoster]

@@antennatrees Well to be clear, Orca isn't developed by Monome. It's a 3rd party script.

[@antennatrees]

@@DuncanFoster Haha, I just realized that man! Orca is by Devine Lu Linvega who is actually an old acquaintance of mine through my days of working at Unity (the game engine). That was weird to find out!

[@disxiple_113]

That ascii patch is the only one like that. The rest are normal patches. Mostly. But when you play with orca, you smile around 20 times per minute.