Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters regard it as an inspiring, all-time favorite demonstration of live coding music.
What it is
Andrew Sorensen's OSCON 2014 keynote in which he live-codes generative music on stage using his Impromptu environment while narrating his computational and musical choices. It imagines concert programmers as a performing art.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2017 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec epiccoleman · 2024-05 · on “Shadama: A particle simulation programming environment for everyone”
Andrew Sorensen is awesome. This video of one of his presentations on Impromptu is one of my all-time favorite programming talks: [this video]
Recommends thdrdt · 2020-09 · on “Electronic music pioneer Simeon Coxe has died”
[LINK] can also be added to the list. Visual programming audio and video. Maybe you also like this talk of Andrew Sorensen on live coding music for inspiration: [this video]
Recommends agentwiggles · 2022-03 · on ““Compiling” Music”
That is really cool, I had a ton of fun playing with Overtone a few years ago (Clojure Supercollider wrapper). There's also Impromptu, which I think is Scheme... There's an incredibly cool talk by Andrew Sorensen using it: [this video]
Cites kimburgess · 2017-01 · on “Ask HN: Does anyone here have an art degree?”
I studied a BFA in Sound Design. It was an incredible mix. Along with the base arts courses, it stepped across music, film, animation and comp sci. It taught me the basics of signal processing, encouraged 'play' and seemed to balance creative expression with the engineering skills to enable that to happen. After getting through all the courses that interested me I dropped out to travel and then fell into a few interesting jobs that kept me otherwise distracted from going back. I would 100% do it all again. The only thing that I'm super upset about is that I did't fall into the live coding community while I was there (this was literally happening at the same uni [this video] ). One mindset that it
Cites filleokus · 2017-03 · on “TidalCycles – A language for the Live Coding pattern”
Related question: Are there any nice videos demoing this kind of music artistry in a different genre? I'm thinking of stuff like [this video] or maybe something with vocal sampling?