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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 on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2017–2023.

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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 Hacker News recommends it

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

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2017–2023
“Sam Aaron is the guy behind the project, he does a lot of ambient type stuff”
— exabrial, May 2017, in “Get started making music”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

wglbJan 2023Recommends

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

in “Common Lisp and Music Composition” · View on HN

ModernMechJul 2022Recommends

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! ▶ this video

in “New numbers on music consumption” · View on HN

exabrialMay 2017Recommends

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: ▶ this video

in “Get started making music” · View on HN

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