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Sam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic Pi

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Music theory, synthesis & productionCreative coding & generative artMusic performance & songs

What it is

A long live-coded DJ set in which Sam Aaron creates all the music in real time by writing code in his Sonic Pi system. It demonstrates algorithmic electronic music performance.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people recommend it as the most impressive demonstration of live coding music, especially to those curious about programmable music.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “you might enjoy the emerging school of live coding”

    Live coding performance for fans of algorithmic chiptunes

    beaconstudios, 2017-04 · Recommendation · in “A Mind is Born”

  2. “The most impressive thing you can do with it is live coding”

    Most impressive thing you can do with programmable music

    pjc50, 2018-07 · Recommendation · in “Sonic Pi: Compose electronic music with code”

  3. “Sonic Pi might interest you if you don’t know it already.”

    Demo of making music with Ruby code

    throwaway9482, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Those who left software development for a different technical field?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: sonic pi, live coding, algorave, electronic music, ruby

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