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Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018

GOTO Conferences2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
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Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, gives a demo-heavy GOTO Chicago 2018 talk on live coding music. He covers the history of Sonic Pi, how it evolved, and what it can do for education and professional musicians.

HN recommends it as the best talk from Sonic Pi's creator, with live-coding examples and technical and teaching insights.

Creative coding & generative artMusic theory, synthesis & productionEducation & learning

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@baldgeek2020 · in “The live coding language that lets you be an actual rock star”

Sam Aaron has done several talks on Sonic Pi. It's an amazing piece of work. My favorite talk where he scratches the surface of the tech details was a 2018 talk at Goto : [VIDEO] He also has saved several of his sessions on youtube.

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@Leszek2020 · in “Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool”

There's also a _great_ talk from the creator (Sam Aaron) on Sonic Pi, including live-coding examples and some wonderful insights on how computer science is taught in schools: [VIDEO]

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@wglb2023 · in “Common Lisp and Music Composition”

Don't think this is at a haskel conference, but this looks like fun: [LINK] . Their web site is [LINK] . An explanation of sonic [VIDEO]

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