Notes for October 25-31

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate daylight savings and the utter stupidity of disrupting my (already poorly attuned) circadian rhythms for a completely arbitrary change that makes mornings only slightly more bearable and evenings a dark pit of mild despair? Well, I guess I just have. It might have also been the tipping point for my feeling slightly feverish and achy towards the end of the working week, which certainly did not help my overall mood or productivity. Hacking The Norns The week did have an auspicious start, since spurred by tinkering with the FM-1 I decided to get some music/audio hacking in. I’ve been toying with the idea of turning my Norns into a Microcosm effects pedal for almost a year now, and not only did things finally start to gel with SuperCollider after deciding to reorganize the code but I also thought it would be nice to throw AI at the problem of getting a usable UX on that and iterating through all the visible options: Mosaic A interface views and…