About

oooo is a plugin that has been in the works for half a decade. It started as a script for monome norns called oooooo (2020), evolved into similar scripts like barcode (2020), acrostic (2021) and ouroboros (2023), and was used in multiple SuperCollider performances (2024), and eventually a JACK client called oooooooo (2025). These early creations were made possible through an extraordinary sample manipulation engine, softcut , developed by Ezra Buchla for the norns, which I'm grateful for and forever inspired by.

For oooo I created an open-source engine for real-time sample manipulation, which is inspired and indebted to the genius behind softcut . The engine of oooo enables highly accurate and seamless resampling with multiple playheads and write heads, has my favorite effects self-contained (tape emulations and a stereo version of my favorite reverb from Dattorro's effect design paper ).

oooo is a tool, but it is also distillation of the essence of my personal music practice. This style of tool has been utilized for three Infinite Digits albums: generations , at the place , and for the theatre of the flat imagination . For that reason, oooo encapsulates not only the effects I reach for most often, but also incorporates interactions I am drawn to, like the ability to play loops like a mellotron with MIDI or using the monome grid to record and play gestures on an isomorphic keyboard. See below for more ways I like to use this tool, but don't be limited by it.