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 # tek
 
-Tek is a MIDI sequencer, sampler, and plugin host for the Linux terminal.
+Tek is a [MIDI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI) sequencer, sampler, and plugin host
+for the Linux terminal. It's written in [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/), and targets
+[JACK](https://jackaudio.org/) (or [Pipewire](https://www.pipewire.org/)'s JACK implementation).
+
+My goal is to have a pop-up scratchpad for musical ideas that doesn't get in the way
+of building upon them. Kind of like [Ableton](https://www.ableton.com/) — but for free systems,
+and without all the bloat!
+
+A secondary goal is to make it extensible and programmable; the intended project format is
+an [S-expression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression)-based notation
+([EDN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure#Extensible_Data_Notation),
+[Steel](https://github.com/mattwparas/steel), or similar... though I've also been
+looking for an excuse to embed a [Forth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language))?)
+
+You can watch my trials and tribulations, as well as my comical struggles with maintaining
+mental health as a rogue knowledge worker in a cyberpunk dystopia, on
+[Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@unspeaker).
+
+---
 
 See `demos/project.edn` for the initial contents of the session.