Sam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi
Why Hacker News recommends it
Offered as an example of live-coded music and a fun entry point to Sonic Pi.
What it is
Sam Aaron live codes an ambient electronic set using Sonic Pi, the music programming environment he created. The performance shows code driving music in real time.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2017 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends exabrial · 2017-05 · on “Get started making music”
Guys if you haven't seen Sonic PI ( [LINK] ), this is also a great tool! You can write beats using a Ruby DSL and it runs them real time. I sat down and did this in an hour: [LINK] Sam Aaron is the guy behind the project, he does a lot of ambient type stuff: [this video]
Recommends ModernMech · 2022-07 · on “New numbers on music consumption”
Have you heard of live coding? Writing code in front of a live audience that plays music? I doubt anything like that has been done before the last couple of decades. I don't know the history, maybe people dabbled with it way back when, but it's an actual thing now. I hope it really catches on! [this video]
Recommends wglb · 2023-01 · on “Common Lisp and Music Composition”
Don't think this is at a haskel conference, but this looks like fun: [this video] . Their web site is [LINK] . An explanation of sonic [LINK]