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Their 2d music programming language, Orca is very cool/fun. Some examples:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MNF8SF69QvM&list=PLb1uDATFJPcEEG...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DBI8eBMGyYs

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mxr8Dtw2R5w

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RDZiKYSGsjg

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Orca's great!

Here's a blog post I wrote after spending a long weekend figuring out how to use it to make some procedurally generated music: https://inventingsituations.net/2021/12/26/procedural-music-...

and the screen-cap of some of the generated music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF-DD43sk2E

> The Orca language is much more like a spreadsheet than python. I

Such a great line.

Orca singlehandedly got me out of a multi-year musical rut. It's such an interesting and different way of sequencing than the traditional piano roll experience. Like modular synthesis, it can be easier to just use it like a toy and not make anything "finished", but it really can spark the imagination.

The best kind of tool (for creative work at least). Unpretentious "toys" that - particularly - don't "get in the way ...

for anyone curious about learning, i made a tutorial and playground for orca:

https://metasyn.srht.site/learn-orca/

Do you use a specific browser? Looks broken-ish to me on most things but firefox, and on firefox the example play button also doesn't work for me.

Super cool in theory though!

Nice.

I may not (correction: almost definitely don't on 80% of stuff) agree with them politically, but I have to admire their creativity and product execution.