How to Synthesize a House Loop

Re:How to Synthesize a House Loop by mstngl on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:26AM (#46136389)

What‘s going on with all these code-2-music tools these days? See other front page discussion about strudel.cc [1]. Did I enter an established bubble or is there a rising trend? It‘s incredible, though, what people are able to obtain with it, especially when built-up during a live session [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052478 [2] Nice example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXCCBsOMSg

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Re:How to Synthesize a House Loop by c22 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:15PM (#46137115)

Often an article posted to hn will cause a mini-trend as users who are engaging with the subject discover and share more related resources.

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Re:How to Synthesize a House Loop by hecanjog on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:40AM (#46136610)

Computer music is as old as computers, live coding is pretty old too. (I posted this in the strudel discussion too: https://toplap.org/wiki/HistoricalPerformances) Maybe everyone doing live streams during the pandemic helped get visibility for live coding? It's interesting to see it kind of becoming popular now.

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Re:How to Synthesize a House Loop by baq on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:58PM (#46137720)

classic overnight success 20 years in the making. many such cases.

I must say the narrated trance piece by switch angel blew me socks right off, to me feels like this should be a genre in itself.

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Re:How to Synthesize a House Loop by vidarh on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @07:16PM (#46142170)

And simpler generative music significantly predates computers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel

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Re:How to Synthesize a House Loop by SmirkingRevenge on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @01:29PM (#46138094)

CSOUND is the oldest code-2-music framework I know of, and that's been here since the 80's, so the concept is not new

The tools/frameworks have become more plentiful, approachable, and mature over the past 10-15 years, to the point where you can just go to strudel.cc and start coding music right from your browser.

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Re:How to Synthesize a House Loop by cdr6934 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @02:20PM (#46138733)

My guess is we are either at the top or rising to the top of cyclical curve of the trend.

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Re:How to Synthesize a House Loop by jedimastert on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:20PM (#46143772)

I think the creator of the video you've linked has had a couple videos go viral, which may be part of it

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Re:How to Synthesize a House Loop by RossBencina on Thursday December 04, 2025 @05:54AM (#46146147)

Live coding music/visuals/art has been a fairly major subculture for over 15 years: https://blog.toplap.org/ Prior to that there was plenty of live/interactive code-based music going on within the computer music scene, HMSL (FORTH based)[1] and CLM (Lisp based)[2] come to mind.

Real-time sound synthesis was tough to live-code, or to run in real-time at all, prior to the faster personal computers of the early 90s. (The tracker scene obviously pre-dates this, but in that case the actual sound synthesis algorithms weren't live coded.) In fact, code-to-music dates back to 1951[3], or 1957[4], depending on your definitions. There is a large history of development by many computer musicians following on from Max Matthews' MUSIC-N. The Computer Music Tutorial[5] is a good source for the academic/research institutions/serious composers part of the picture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Music_Specificati...

[2] https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/

[3] https://cis.unimelb.edu.au/about/history/csirac/music

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N

[5] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044912/the-computer-music-tu...

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