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Having someone type at a laptop is so boring to watch, it totally kills the mood.
I'd rather have them manipulate lego like bricks on a physical screen or even write on a chalkboard...
Something has to be better than this
Have been trying to get into live coding, mostly with Supercollider but Sonic-Pi looks nice as well (certainly less verbose). On the composition side of things it seems to be fantastic, I've used a lot of Renoise and this way of doing things just feels like a more direct way of what I was trying to do there, really nice. The big drawback for me so far has been sound design. Actually building your own synths can be di…
Didn’t Renoise have some sort of Lua interface? In theory it should allow doing what this is doing, and more.
Live coding music is nice, but the interface is awful. Having someone type at a laptop is so boring to watch, it totally kills the mood. I'd rather have them manipulate lego like bricks on a physical screen or even write on a chalkboard... Something has to be better than this
So we'd be watching someone simultaneously live code/play music and live code their interface.
Personally, I'd rather let them code the interface off stage and watch the live performance. After all, using the interface is live coding, but using the pre-built DSL.
Live coding music is nice, but the interface is awful. Having someone type at a laptop is so boring to watch, it totally kills the mood. I'd rather have them manipulate lego like bricks on a physical screen or even write on a chalkboard... Something has to be better than this
If you continue the live coding (thought) experiment, you would naturally code a better interface. At that point you would be reinventing something like Ableton Live, but completely different. Similar to how using Lisp for a project develops its own DSL for the application different from other DSLs for other applications. So we'd be watching someone simultaneously live code/play music and live code their interface. P…
In some ways, sonic Pi is already a higher order interface than whatever language it's written in.
I am mostly talking about the way of inputting the code though. Having someone bent over a laptop is fairly disgraceful.. Maybe people said the same when knob-turning DJs appeared.
From the site:
ORCA is an ... esoteric programming language ... capable of sending MIDI, OSC & UDP to your audio interface, like Ableton, Renoise, VCV Rack or SuperCollider.
Live coding music is nice, but the interface is awful. Having someone type at a laptop is so boring to watch, it totally kills the mood. I'd rather have them manipulate lego like bricks on a physical screen or even write on a chalkboard... Something has to be better than this
Live coding music is nice, but the interface is awful. Having someone type at a laptop is so boring to watch, it totally kills the mood. I'd rather have them manipulate lego like bricks on a physical screen or even write on a chalkboard... Something has to be better than this
Perhaps the program designer wants people to see actual coding as an artistic expression, which of course all real programmers know is very true, and not as some nerdy boring thing that lets-face-it…many non-programmers think of it.
That’s why personally I love the idea of the real time collaboration additions that are coming online these days. Like what could be better to promote coding then seeing a couple of people go fucking off sitting behind keyboards making interesting music together?
Sonic Pi is a wonderful project! Sam the creator is consistently friendly and helpful, if you get the chance to chat with him or to book him for a conference or a party you should on that opportunity.