Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as the best talk from Sonic Pi's creator, with live-coding examples and technical and teaching insights.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2020 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec baldgeek · 2020-01 · on “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 : [this video] He also has saved several of his sessions on youtube.
Strong rec Leszek · 2020-05 · on “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: [this video]
Cites wglb · 2023-01 · on “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 [this video]