THE VIDEO SHELF · live coding music
Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018
Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, gives a demo-heavy GOTO Chicago 2018 talk on live coding music. He covers the history of Sonic Pi, how it evolved, and what it can do for education and professional musicians.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as the best talk from Sonic Pi's creator, with live-coding examples and technical and teaching insights.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- GOTO Conferences
- Topic
- live coding music
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2023
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
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Sam Aaron has done several talks on Sonic Pi. It's an amazing piece of work. My favorite talk where he scratches the surface of the tech details was a 2018 talk at Goto : [VIDEO] He also has saved several of his sessions on youtube.
baldgeek on Hacker News · 2020-01
In The live coding language that lets you be an actual rock starThere's also a _great_ talk from the creator (Sam Aaron) on Sonic Pi, including live-coding examples and some wonderful insights on how computer science is taught in schools: [VIDEO]
Leszek on Hacker News · 2020-05
In Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
