THE VIDEO SHELF · live coding music
Sam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi
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 HN readers recommended it
Offered as an example of live-coded music and a fun entry point to Sonic Pi.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Sam Aaron
- Topic
- live coding music
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 …
exabrial on Hacker News · 2017-05
In Get started making musicHave 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 …
ModernMech on Hacker News · 2022-07
In New numbers on music consumptionDon't think this is at a haskel conference, but this looks like fun: [VIDEO] . Their web site is [LINK] . An explanation of sonic [LINK]
wglb on Hacker News · 2023-01
In Common Lisp and Music Composition
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
