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Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014

O'Reilly · 157K views · 2014-07-24 · 10:23

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Overview

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.

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HN commenters regard it as an inspiring, all-time favorite demonstration of live coding music.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2017–2024

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Creative coding & generative artMusic theory, synthesis & production
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epiccoleman · 2024-05 · Strong recommendation

Andrew Sorensen is awesome. This video of one of his presentations on Impromptu is one of my all-time favorite programming talks: [VIDEO]

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agentwiggles · 2022-03 · Recommendation

That 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]

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thdrdt · 2020-09 · Recommendation

[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]

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