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tek 
tek is a a music making program for 24-bit unicode terminals.
written in rust with ratatui on crossterm for jack and pipewire. it plays well with your midi controller, wav samples, and lv2 plugins.
tek is available as source, statically linked binaries, and on the aur.
author is reachable via mastodon @unspeaker@mastodon.social
or matrix @unspeaker:matrix.org
project status
codebase and author currently undergoing renormalization (with one welcoming it while the other keeps feinting.)
getting to some of these hot tui pix above was such a pain in the upper trunk, that debugging the last 20% of the app into existence became an effective impossibility (what with an attention span frazzled by precarious work commitments in teleologically paradoxical pocket dimensions, chat is this permanent.)
current focus is on removing a layer of inner cruft in tengri and finally making the whole
affair totally live-codable using dizzle.
to that end, besides the default commitments of the AGPL3, currently the author explicitly requests: thoughts, prayers, mantras to be chanted, candles to be lit, etc., any treasured personal and/or tribal superstitions to be observed extra hard, etc. and all in the name of the upcoming version
for people who don't have any to spare, try recalling some silly folktale, idiom, or other harmless nonsense meme from the surrounding vernacular, and coming up with a half-convincing interpretation of its secret occult, plain-sight esoteric, outrageously conspiratorial, ancient and justified true meaning. that should also help.
installation
binary download
you can download tek 0.2.0 "almost static" from codeberg releases. this is a standalone binary release targeting glibc-based systems.
from distro repositories
arch linux
tek 0.2.0-rc7 is available as a package in the AUR.
you can install it using your preferred AUR helper (e.g. paru):
paru -S tek
building from source
requires docker.
git clone --recursive -b 0.2 https://codeberg.org/unspeaker/tek
cd tek # enter directory
cat bin/release-glibc.sh # preview build script
sudo bin/release-glibc.sh # run build script
sudo cp bin/tek /usr/local/bin/tek # install