From 455755da945c9523a799c6a0f79e1c931bb9e5c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: unspeaker Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:26:23 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] docs: stop editing --- README.md | 20 ++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 49cbd701..89b42e71 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -24,15 +24,23 @@ My goal is to have a pop-up scratchpad for musical ideas that doesn't get in the 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 +Besides Ableton, I'm also inspired by the workflow of trackers and various old-school hardware +sequencers (of which I've broken several). I've found that every existing music-making tool +takes me about 80% of the way to the music I want to make. And so, after a decade of fucking +around, I've decided it's finally time to make good on my old dream to build the instrument +that will take me 100% there. + +A secondary goal is to make my music making environment extensible, programmable, and +interoperable; 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))?) +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). +You can follow my progress, as well as, as well as my comical struggles with maintaining +mental health as a rogue knowledge worker in a cyberpunk dystopia, and various other +trials'n'tribulations, on [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@unspeaker). ---