Sonic Pi - BEAM Up The VJ! • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOaar

Sam Aaron - Live Coding Musician & Creator of Sonic Pi @SamAaron

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ABSTRACT
Sonic Pi is a free code-based music creation and performance tool that targets both education and professional musicians. It is possible for beginners to code fresh beats, driving bass lines and shimmering synth riffs. All this whilst teaching core computer science concepts such as sequencing, functions, variables, loops, data structures and algorithms.

This talk will briefly introduce Sonic Pi before taking a deep technical nose-dive into some of the interesting requirements of live coding systems. We will then examine the architecture of Sonic Pi's IO sub-system which is implemented on the BEAM in both Erlang and Elixir.

Once we've covered these basics we will then be in the perfect position to take a look at how Elixir is core to the future of Sonic Pi. The first stop in this new exciting journey and the main focus of this talk will be live coding visualisations in sync with the music. For that we'll need to BEAM up a VJ.

Expect plenty of live code, noise and psychedelic imagery! [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
01:24 Sonic Pi demo
10:00 How to teach kids to code
24:05 Q&A
29:10 Cool code bits/demo
34:10 How Sonic Pi works
40:04 Visualization
47:02 Outro

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[malte]

Sam Aaron is inspiring people for years now. This talk is no exception. Such an impressive person. <3

[scpresearcherssite]

man you did a great job. humanity thanks you

[comte.sounds]

Sam is fantastic. This is a really great talk

[Qaboom]

34:43 "An Nginx for audio" sounds cool

[MajeureX]

There seems to be a problem with the playback of the music samples during the talk

[krzysztofbardzinski]

any example how to play clear melody instead of noise?
And I mean sound I would like to hear, not a buzz like from cheap keyboard