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by harrylove 1693 days ago
I'm not familiar with Orca but I am familiar with the use of bang in Max/MSP[0], in which it's used as a generic event trigger for attached objects. Objects receiving a bang message will execute their main method. The context feels similar here.

[0] https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/tutorials/basicchapter02