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Sam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi

Sam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi

Sam Aaron
3 HN recommenders · discussed 2017–2023
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About this video

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.

Why it appears in the archive

Offered as an example of live-coded music and a fun entry point to Sonic Pi.

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From the Hacker News discussion

exabrial · 2017-05 · rec

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: [VIDEO]

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ModernMech · 2022-07 · rec

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! [VIDEO]

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wglb · 2023-01 · rec

Don't think this is at a haskel conference, but this looks like fun: [VIDEO] . Their web site is [LINK] . An explanation of sonic [LINK]

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