Kodsnack 723 - Bach and Beethoven and the dots and the lines, with Sam Aaron
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Episode Kodsnack 723 - Bach and Beethoven and the dots and the lines, with Sam Aaron
Fredrik talks to Sam Aaron about Sonic pi - the tool for learning, coding, and performing music. Whe discuss where it stated but more importantly how it has evolved during the past year - coming to the web and gaining lots of performance and features in the process.
Sam also discusses how to build reliable things when working on an indisde-out bottle ship, blindfolded and with a gaslighting agent as your help.
Recorded during the excellent Goatmire Elixir 2026 conference.
Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!
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Links
• Sam • Support Sam on Patreon! • Goatmire • Sonic pi • Kristoffer • Tau5 • Sam's talk last year • Elixir • Lua • Guy Brown at University of Sheffield • Bleep - the synth Sam built with Guy • Supercollider • James MaCartney • Audio worklet • Cmake • Web audio • Gaslighting • Open sound control • Ring buffer • The Supersonic demo with lots of observability • Sam's PhD - A domain specific language for dynamic interest management within virtual environments • Western musical notation • Bach • Beethoven • Aphex twin • Juce - open framework for audio stuff • DSP • Supersonic • Hard real time • Rust • OTP - essentially Erlang's standard library • University of Cambridge • Cambridge festival • Alan Blackwell - Sam's PhD supervisor • Support Kodsnack on Ko-fi • QT • Live loops in Sonic pi • Overtone • Clojure • Jeff Rose • Jonathan Graham • Meta-ex - Sam and Jonathan's former band • Emacs • Raspberry pi • Raspberry pi foundation • Ruby • mruby - Ruby for embedded systems • ESP32 - chip that Sonic pi, also, runs on • Evan Czaplicki - the creator of Elm - was a guest in episode 604 • Rick Hickey • Hammock driven development
Titles
• Vaporware • Research-led • Live-coding music systems • Missing the important part • A special kind of worker • It knew I wanted a synthesizer • Inside-out ship in a bottle • A lying, gaslighting system • Ticks with the audio hardware • On the tick • Tons of observability • Bach and Beethoven and the dots and the lines • Notate your score • Notate Aphex twin • A better supercollider • You're the thinker • How slow am I prepared to go? • The creative potential of programming
Links in the notes 20
- https://linktr.ee/samaaron
- https://sonic-pi.net/index.html
- https://2026.goatmire.com/
- https://www.twitter.com/kodsnack
- https://www.twitter.com/tobiashieta
- https://twitter.com/oferlund
- https://www.twitter.com/bjoreman
- https://www.facebook.com/kodsnack
- https://ko-fi.com/kodsnack
- https://www.patreon.com/samaaron
- https://goto.liten.app/@krig
- https://tau5.live/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doG1uoDhQtU&list=PLUXTGzxWIxV28pwlva0-yaeu2PfNWe4hX
- https://elixir-lang.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua
- https://sheffield.ac.uk/cs/people/academic/guy-brown
- https://bleep.sheffield.ac.uk/
- https://supercollider.github.io/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-mccartney-9580b310/?isSelfProfile=false
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioWorklet
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