Indoor thunder with Norns
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I’m slowly getting my head around the Norns device that I built on my birthday. It works by running Lua scripts that talk to SuperCollider engines to make sounds. There’s also a sound sampler and sllcer and you interact with it via your browser. It’s great fun, but at the moment I’m using it to make the sound of rainfall thanks to the lovely Shower app. I’m trying to get my head around how such a short piece of code can produce something that sounds quite realistic. And very relaxing.
Happy Birthday with Norns
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It’s my birthday today. Go me. I tend to sort out my own presents. Except for the chocolates of course…
I’ve fancied getting myself a Norns device from Monome for a while because I want to write some code that makes music. However, the Norns, while very pretty, is also very expensive. But now they do a Norns shield kit which you can attach to a Raspberry Pi 3 or 3+ to make the same device only cheaper. And you get to do some soldering.
I ordered a kit on Tuesday from Monome in New York. It arrived today. Amazing. Happy Birthday me. I spent a happy half hour this afternoon soldering it together. I made an image of the operating system on an SD card and fired it up. It worked. Really Happy Birthday Me.
So far I’ve managed to make some very trippy sound loops and stuff. You can attach your browser to the device and write Lua scripts to control what it does. You can also write sound generation code using a language called SuperCollider. The Norns also has an audio input so that it can be used as an effects processor. It’s going to be a fun thing to play with.
