Welcome to the world of SOUND♪
Come with us now on a journey through space and sound ♪♫.
:D - who me?
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You have at your hands the capability to make every sound imaginable.
(definst creativity [amp 9999] (* amp (lf-saw 300)))Unplug those headphones,
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adjust your volume
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and your ears are ready to begin their journey.
##> Before you begin your travels
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A good journey always starts with getting all your equipment prepared. Its rarely fun but hey, you don't want to stand live on stage installing Java.
git clone git@github.com:josephwilk/strangeloop2014.git && cd strangeloop2014 && make
The path you choose dictates what you need to setup.
Also no matter what, you will need to pick and prepare an instrument: Vim, Emacs, Lighttable, SonicPi
##> You reach a fork in the road
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|Power| |Freedom|
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One path leads to instant power but you are never truely free.
The other leads to complete freedom but you have to build your world from scratch.
##> Power
###> You encounter a Tidal. It seems to want to play.
\:O Hi
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Tidal, a Haskell framework focusing on conciseness, building up complicated patterns manipulating samples quickly.
Install
Requires Haskell installed.
- Linux installation: https://github.com/yaxu/Tidal/blob/master/doc/install-linux.md
- Mac OS X installation: https://github.com/yaxu/Tidal/blob/master/doc/install-osx.md
- Windows installation: https://github.com/yaxu/Tidal/blob/master/doc/install-windows.md
##> Freedom
###> Armed with braces you enter the Overtone
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*gulp* :\ d88""88b
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"Y88P"
Overtone, a Clojure framework provides a lot of freedom, but at the cost of being more verbose and requiring you to build your own abstractions. It is a Clojure client to the SuperCollider sound engine.
Install
Prerequisite: Java: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/download_options.xml
###> Out of a bush bursts a swarm of Sonic-PIs
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Sonic-PI is an IDE for live coding music using Ruby. It comes pre-packaged in a nice dmg file which means its very quick to get started. But alas only on OS X and RaspberryPi for now.
Install
Download and install from: http://sonic-pi.net/get-v2.0 OR grab a USB key.
###> You encounter a <blank>. It seems to want to <action>.
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There are many more environments for you to explore. Feel like breaking off the path? Take a look at things like:
- Pure Data http://puredata.info/
- Chuck http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
- ixi-lang http://www.ixi-audio.net/content/body_software_ixilang.html
- LiveCodeLab (browser based) http://livecodelab.net/
- Gibber (browser based) http://gibber.mat.ucsb.edu/
##> Before you return home
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In our final session we will have some space for people to demos what they have done.
##> exit
Goodbye.
Enjoy some live coded music