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A Retrospective

Writing style inspired by creative and manic ramblings of found in the tapestries of Lorina Bulwer <<misc/i_miss_lorina_bulwer>>.

TO THE NEVER-GRADUATES OF THE RECURSE CENTER BROOKLYN NEW YORK CITY

TO THE NEVER-GRADUATES ACROSS THE PLANET CONNECTED BY WIRES AND ELECTRICITY

I RECURSER PAUL BATCHELOR WAS EXAMINED AND FOUND TO BE A PROPERLY SHAPED RECURSER FEBUARY THE NINTH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY-FOUR IN ATLANTA GEORGIA SUITABLE FOR THE SUMMER 1 2024 BATCH. HOPED TO FIND HIMSELF MAKING THINGS THAT SING AND TALK AND LAUGH FROM CODE AND MAKE THESE THINGS RUN IN A BROWSER.

PACKED THINGS INTO TINY BOXES AND SHIPPED THEM UP NORTH MANY BOXES AND THEN I GOT INTO A PLANE AND WALKED ALONG THE BOSTON COMMON AND SAID HELLO TO THE SEALS AT THE AQUARIUM FOUR DAYS I WAS IN BOSTON THEN GOT ON A PLANE TO NEW YORK CITY BROOKLYN.

SHOWED UP IN BROOKLYN MAY THE 19TH ON THE STEPS OF MY FRIENDS DANS APARTMENT HE LET ME IN AND LET ME SLEEP ON THE COUCH GOOD FRIEND LONGTIME FRIEND FRIENDS SINCE WE WERE 3 YEARS AND IN PRESCHOOL DAN THE REASON WHY I WENT TO RECURSE CENTER WALKED ALONG THE PARKS AND ENJOYED THE PEOPLE

I RECURSER PAUL BATCHELOR BEGAN HIS BATCH THE TWENTIETH OF MAY LEARNED A BIT ABOUT EVERYONE FOUND INTERESTING GROUPS THEN STARTED FIGURING OUT HOW TO WRITE IT ALL DOWN INTO LOGS.

ON THE THIRD DAY FIRST DAY OF HUB I RECURSER PAUL BATCHELOR SET FOOT ON THE FOURTH FLOOR SAT ON A COUCH AND OPENED HIS MACBOOK AIR TO FIND THE SCREEN HAD CRACKED AFTER MONTHS OF PREP HUNDREDS OF MILES OF TRAVEL NO PROBLEMS BUT TODAY THE SCREEN DECIDED TO GIVE AFTER A SHORT TRIP ON THE G LINE A PORTABLE SCREEN WAS USED INSTEAD AND THIS HELPED OUT A BIT FOR A WHILE BUT IT WAS A SPRAWL AND TOOK TIME

RUST IS A LANGUAGE THAT IS GOOD FOR AUDIO RELATED THINGS I RECURSER PAUL BATCHELOR BEGAN WRITING A MONO WAV WRITER THAT COULD ALLOW ME TO WRITE SOUNDS TO DISK A GOOD START WROTE THE PROGRAM IN C FIRST THEN PORTED IT TO RUST.

BEGAN BUILDING A VOICE INSIDE THE COMPUTER THE VOICE STARTS WITH THE VIBRATION OF VOCAL FOLDS CALLED THE GLOTTIS AND THIS MAKES THINGS BUZZ THEN I CREATED A VOCAL TRACT A SERIES OF CYLYNDRICAL TUBES FOR THE BUZZ TO GO INTO THIS MAKES THE VOWELS FOUND SOME NANS AND THEN BEGAN THE NANHUNT THAT TOOK MANY HOURS TO FIND.

I RECURSER PAUL BATCHELOR WANTED TO USE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF VOCAL SYNTHESIS TO EXPLORE WEBAPPS AND RUST AND WEBASSEMBLY AND WEBAUDIO STARTED OUT BY MAKING A PROTOTYPE USING JAVASCRIPT WEBAUDIO AND SLIDERS TO CONTROL THE HUMAN VOICE IT WAS A VERY HELPFUL THING.

MOVED AGAIN CLOSER TO THE HUB THIS TIME VERY CLOSE ALSO CLOSER TO A TRADER JOES AND A TARGET NEVER BEEN SO CLOSE TO A TARGET ALSO A WHOLE FOODS AND AN APPLE STORE EVERYTHING IS CLOSE BY EVERYONE WALKS AND MOVES AT THE SPEED OF WALKING WITH SOME TRAINS IN BETWEEN THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE.

STARTED READING ABOUT REACT THEY SAID TO LEARN TYPESCRIPT AS WELL BUILT MY PROTOTYPE AGAIN IN TYPESCRIPT THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME HOW TO DO THIS THEN I WANTED TO BUILD SOMETHING MORE MUSICAL SOMETHING WITH MORE THAN ONE VOICE. TUNED FOUR VOICES TOGETHER TO MAKE IT BLEND MAKE IT FEEL REAL THEN I PUT IT IN A WEB APP AND CALLED IT VOCAL CHORDS AND SHOWED IT AT HALFBAKED DEMOS WHERE THEY TOLD ME MY VOICE WAS DROWNED BY THE CHOIR OF ELECTRONIC ANGELS

I RECURSER PAUL BATCHELOR GOT A REFURBISHED X390 TO REPLACE MY M1 MACBOOK AIR TWAS THE CHEAPER OPTION AND KEYS FEEL GOOD TO TYPE ON AND I ENJOY RUNNING LINUX JUST LIKE THE BOX AT HOME. REDISCOVERED THE JOY OF USING WACOM TABLETS TO SHAPE SOUND GOT A SMALL TABLET USED LIBEVDEV TO CONTROL THINGS IN C WITH DSP IN RUST.

CREATURE SOUNDS ARE HARD BUT ATTEMPTED TO BUILD ONE WHERE YOU COULD POKE A CREATURE AND IT WOULD LAUGH BUT IT DIDN'T REALLY LAUGH AND THIS MADE MANY PEOPLE SAD SO I WAS SAD BUT IT WAS A GOOD LESSON.

NAND2TETRIS COMPUTER ENGINEERING WAS INTERESTING SO PICKED UP THE ELEMENTS OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS READ THE FIRST SIX CHAPTERS LEARNED ABOUT LOGIC GATES NAND HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES ASSEMBLY ALSO PICKED UP SOME GAMEBOY ASSEMBLY PROGRAMMING ATTEMPTING TO GET SOUNDS FROM A GAMEBOY FOR MY SECOND IMPOSSIBLE DAY IN MY BATCH.

I RECURSER PAUL BATCHELOR KNOW UNIX SYSTEMS AND BECAUSE OF THIS I WAS ABLE TO USE A NEXT COMPUTER TERMINAL DESPITE NEVER TOUCHING A NEXT COMPUTER TERMINAL BEFORE.

INSPIRED BY VOICES THREE VOICES IN A SPACE WITH GLISTENING STAGGERED HARMONIES STREWN OUT OVER TIME WITH INTERMEDIATE VOICES CLASHING TOGETHER BUILT AN APPLICATION WHERE YOU WERE OFTEN NOT ALONE TWO VOICES AND UPPER VOICE AND AN LOWER VOICE WOULD WAKE UP AND FOLLOW YOU AROUND AND THIS WOULD CREATE TRIADIC HARMONY USING CHORD SELECTION HEURISTICS I WROTE. DEVELOPED ALL IN RUST PROTOTYPED ON THE TRACKPAD THEN PORTED TO WEBASSEMBLY WITH JAVASCRIPT AND CANVAS AND I CALLED IT TRIO AND PRESENTED IT TO AN AUDIENCE ON A THURSDAY THEN

I RECURSER PAUL BATCHELOR WOKE UP UP EARLY SAT EVERY DAY AT THE SAME SPOT ON THE TABLE WANTED TO BE INTERRUPTED AND WAS INTERRUPTED IN AMAZING WAYS.