About Me
About Me
Strange Loop Conference, St. Louis, September 2015
Excerpt from Programming as Performance page:
Dr. Sam Aaron is a Research Associate at Wolfson College and in the Digital Technology Group at the Computer Laboratory, part of the University of Cambridge. He is the founder and creator of Sonic Pi.
He believes the combination of computer technology with arts is essential for the development of well-researched, creative, innovative and practical ideas in tech.
This bulk of this presentation is demonstrating how Sonic Pi works, and how to start creating sound and music with it. Sonic Pi is an environment for creating music through code. This software was developed specifically to have a low barrier of entry, and even with just a few basic lines of code, someone can start creating music.
Through the talk, he codes live to show how simply basic programming concepts can be taught and utilized through creating music. This also discusses the logic progression in trying to create more interesting musical concepts that we expect naturally extend to additional computer science concepts; like concurrency.