Re:Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool
by delineator on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @08:18AM
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In addition to Sonic Pi, I've also enjoyed experimenting with @neauoire's [0] Orca[1] and @yaxu's [2] TidalCycles[3].
Orca[1] is like a moving 2D functional programming crossword puzzle for generating sequences, be sure to watch some tutorial videos to get started.
TidalCycles[3] is a lovely way to very concisely and quickly generate looping patterns of samples and tones, still getting my head around it.
[0] https://twitter.com/neauoire
[1] https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/orca examples on twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/ORC%CE%9B
[3] https://tidalcycles.org/ examples on twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/TidalCycles
Re:Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool
by cube2222 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @04:26AM
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Oh, the main contributor to Overtone is actually also the main contributor to Sonic Pi!
Re:Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool
by simongray on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @06:47AM
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Yeah, he started out with Overtone + a special emacs configuration (emacs-live) and had a short-lived duo called Meta-eX playing music using that setup: https://meta-ex.com/
Re:Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool
by jimmcslim on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:44AM
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There is also Andrew Sorenson's [1] Extempore [2] which is also a Lisp.
Re:Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool
by benswift on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @08:11AM
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Yep. In fact, lisps tend to pop up quite a bit in livecoding (and in other places, really).
https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding is a nice curated list of live coding languages and tools.
For people interested in this, there's also a recent project https://github.com/overtone/overtone which looks similar, using Clojure though (which seems to deem itself better to live programming).