Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool

Sam Aaron [1], the creator of Sonic-Pi, just released v3.2.0 [2]. I've only played around with Sonic-Pi a bit but I find it exceptional. It has the sound quality that I would expect from a more professional tool while still being accessible to the beginner and being programmer friendly. It's also completely free/libre/open source. There's a good community over at the discussion forum `in_thread` [3]. Sam Aaron also has many videos of him practicing, live streaming, etc., complete with code…

Everything live coding related is worth taking a look: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding Live coding is how I learned to program and I am so glad that this type of computer music performance exists. I am currently doing my PhD on the topic! Programming as a performative act, with its own culture and music sub-genres. For those interested in helping / taking a look, I am currently trying to hack my own live coding environment based on Python asyncio mechanisms: https://github.com/Bubobubobubobubo/sardine…

Prior to my career as a software engineer, I attended RubyConf (2015, San Antonio) and watched a presentation about making music with Sonic Pi. That night, I made this rendition of "Corridors of Time" from Chrono Trigger: https://gist.github.com/thisismitch/be9287c80903cad151fe It took me way longer than I'd like to admit! Enjoy! Edit: Here's an MP3 export of it https://soundcloud.com/mitchell-anicas-project/corridors-of-... for easier listening.

There was a talk at Strange Loop 2014, "Our Shared Joy of Programming", which was just recently put on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_zW63dcZB0 The whole talk is stimulating, but the parts relevant to Sonic Pi are its Overtone (http://overtone.github.io/) lineage at about 9:05, a demo at about 17:36, and the experience using it in schools (http://www.raspberrypi.org/sonic-pi-live-summer-school/) at about 26:48. What I got out of it was that it's a language which is meant to be both fully featured and…