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Re: Programming languages used for music

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Post by iLemming »

1313ed01 wrote: post #35
opminion wrote: post #7

No Sonic Pi, which is a Ruby dialect?

Sonic Pi is SuperCollider, but using Ruby instead of the default sclang language. Overtone is similar (and possibly originally by the same developer, iirc?) but using Clojure, and is also missing from the list.

Yeah, that's some glaring omissions - not including Sam Aaron's work makes me distrust the whole list. SonicPi is fundamental for teaching kids music and programming and Overtone is just mind-blowing - I watched people DJing music while evaling things in Emacs, that looked sick.

Re: Programming languages used for music

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Post by AlexB138 »

sandebert wrote: post #18

Switch Angel live-code using Strudel. Really impressive and interesting stuff. https://youtu.be/aPsq5nqvhxg

This is pretty incredible to watch. I initially thought she must be pulling some kind of trick to make that look so fluid, but the fact that she is making very small typos and correcting them as she goes make it look very believable. This is really the first time I've watched someone use one of these tools and it feel like a musician using a new kind of instrument.

Re: Programming languages used for music

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Post by sandebert »

AlexB138 wrote: post #62
sandebert wrote: post #18

Switch Angel live-code using Strudel. Really impressive and interesting stuff. https://youtu.be/aPsq5nqvhxg

This is pretty incredible to watch. I initially thought she must be pulling some kind of trick to make that look so fluid, but the fact that she is making very small typos and correcting them as she goes make it look very believable. This is really the first time I've watched someone use one of these tools and it feel like a musician using a new kind of instrument.

Yeah, she's got several videos, and shorts, where she does this. It's clear she really, really understands how to do what she wants to achieve!

Re: Programming languages used for music

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Post by jim_lawless »

I saw a post about the SKOAR language here on HN in late 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10180423

In the comments, I saw reference to MML ( Music Macro Language ... not exactly what I think the MML is on the list. ) Here's the one referenced in the HN post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Macro_Language

At the time, I built a small interpreter that included MML as an embedded language, but I don't think I have the (Windows) binaries handy.

Re: Programming languages used for music

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Post by mackeye »

i was transcribing some songs for violin after picking it back up (mostly metal, which i have to take some liberties with to sound good on a violin + kick drum :> ), and thought about writing a language (maybe a rust steel module) to hand the typesetting for me, as writing out & erasing e.g. slurs can take a while. but lilypond really is good enough that there wasn't much about it i'd want to change, either syntactically or semantically (as really, i only need a very small subset of it). any language i do write, if i choose to, would probably use it as a backend --- its rendering is very good :)

Re: Programming languages used for music

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Post by AlexB138 »

sandebert wrote: post #63
AlexB138 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is pretty incredible to watch. I initially thought she must be pulling some kind of trick to make that look so fluid, but the fact that she is making very small typos and correcting them as she goes make it look very believable. This is really the first time I've watched someone use one of these tools and it feel like a musician using a new kind of instrument.

Yeah, she's got several videos, and shorts, where she does this. It's clear she really, really understands how to do what she wants to achieve!

Yeah, I'm watching more. These are incredible. I really like how she describes what she's doing in tempo with the music as she does it. The description is basically part of the performance. Really unique and engaging approach.

Re: Programming languages used for music

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Post by heuermh »

chaosprint wrote: post #54
heuermh wrote: post #44

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Curious, would the rewrite allow for building on hardware platforms such as the Daisy? Or maybe it is already possible, to be fair I haven't looked closely. https://daisy.audio/hardware/ , https://github.com/electro-smith/libDaisy

of course I already got a poc a while ago: https://github.com/chaosprint/daisy-rust-playground but for now my main mcu is rp2350

Awesome, will check it out!

Re: Programming languages used for music

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Post by lovich »

listenfaster wrote: post #55
lovich wrote: post #24

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Is this the one from the hippie(non perjorative) group living off a boat? If it’s the same, it’s one that if I win the lottery I’d spend my time learning along with this tool from Imogen https://mimugloves.com/ I don’t think I’d ever produce something worth listening to, but if I won the lottery, why would I care beyond my own enjoyment?

‘Your own enjoyment’ is a rich reward. My unsolicited advice: Try making a mess with it everyday for a week / month / year and see if you don’t start to appreciate something in what you make. Orca is a brilliant piece of work.

My own enjoyment was predicated on the money side. If I was independently wealthy I’d be splitting my time between this and gem faceting as hobbies

Re: Programming languages used for music

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Post by cowsaymoo »

sandebert wrote: post #63
AlexB138 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is pretty incredible to watch. I initially thought she must be pulling some kind of trick to make that look so fluid, but the fact that she is making very small typos and correcting them as she goes make it look very believable. This is really the first time I've watched someone use one of these tools and it feel like a musician using a new kind of instrument.

Yeah, she's got several videos, and shorts, where she does this. It's clear she really, really understands how to do what she wants to achieve!

If you go back to the older videos she has like a decade of experience messing around with modular synths to make music live that is actually listenable.

She is also a main developer on the strudel project. If you want to contribute, it is open source:

https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel

Re: Programming languages used for music

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Post by wbeckler »

yogurtboy wrote: post #48
asupkay wrote: post #43

There's a community in NYC called Livecode that hosts in person events for programming music and it's awesome

This sounds sick! I wonder if there's something similar in Seattle.

Here's a list of global locations: https://livecode.nyc/network
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