In time, you’ll build up a library of favorites. You keep them or remove them, as you would with games on your console. You install scripts on norns like you would download a game to your console.

This act of sharing means that Norns can become many things which we people wouldn’t believe, as someone from recently mentioned science fiction story might’ve put it. Applications, or scripts as they’re called (because they really are scripts, but we’ll get to that, too) are free and developed by an ever-vibrant community. When you do, norns becomes an instrument. On norns, you launch a musical application. As on a video game console, nothing happens – of any lasting interest – until you launch something. So conceptually, this is where we’ll begin. Photos by Andreas Roman unless otherwise indicated. Two new instruments, made to be played together, arrive. So I sold some stuff, placed an order, cleared my desk and on the fourteenth day of shipment, the norns and the grid arrived. It was a place where people enjoyed having a conversation on all kinds of things. Lines, as it’s called, wasn’t just a place for monome people with monome gear.

And when I lurked the forum to pick up the vibe, it just felt … right, I suppose. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been around this long. There had to exist something in that gap between monome’s sometimes-abstract, sometimes-functional way of describing their output. So I decided to take the journey myself, rather than rely on someone else to share their experience. But I’ve either met people who are as ignorant as I, because they haven’t owned or tried monome kits, or they’ve been pulled right into it and emerged with explanations that sound like something from Blade Runner. Intrigued and confused, I’ve tried to find an answer to what their stuff actually is. It’s just the way I’m wired.įor this reason more than any other, I’ve always been attracted to monome gear. I’m a minimalistic kind of guy, and I love things of beauty.

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