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Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014
Andrew Sorensen's OSCON 2014 keynote in which he live-codes generative music on stage using his Impromptu environment while narrating his computational and musical choices. It imagines concert programmers as a performing art.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters regard it as an inspiring, all-time favorite demonstration of live coding music.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- O'Reilly
- Topic
- live coding music
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2024
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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Andrew Sorensen is awesome. This video of one of his presentations on Impromptu is one of my all-time favorite programming talks: [VIDEO]
epiccoleman on Hacker News · 2024-05
In Shadama: A particle simulation programming environment for everyone[LINK] can also be added to the list. Visual programming audio and video. Maybe you also like this talk of Andrew Sorensen on live coding music for inspiration: [VIDEO]
thdrdt on Hacker News · 2020-09
In Electronic music pioneer Simeon Coxe has diedThat is really cool, I had a ton of fun playing with Overtone a few years ago (Clojure Supercollider wrapper). There's also Impromptu, which I think is Scheme... There's an incredibly cool talk by Andrew Sorensen using it: [VIDEO]
agentwiggles on Hacker News · 2022-03
In “Compiling” Music
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