Faculty of Education, 19 June 2019, rev. June 2020
E Reed. ereed - at - swchs.net
Bold = serious advantage over other music tech software
use_synth_defaults
/use_sample_defaults
live_loop
synth :sound_in
and live_audio
2.tick
and .look
.reverse
.choose
and .shuffle
live_loop
and the friction between concurrent live_loops and linear compositions. This can be bridged with in_thread
, but which do you privilege in a short SoW?amp:
options or other expressionA repo of resources at https://github.com/MrReedSWCHS/resources
https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-sonic-pi
More basic but still very useful course.
https://github.com/raspberrypilearning/sonic-pi-lessons
(Archived) Scheme of work developed by Pi foundation for the Live & Coding research project.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/Essentials_Sonic_Pi-v1.pdf
Magpi magazine. A bit old now but a great PDF resource. Good ideas for making printed resources of your own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1mBqKvIyU - TED talk
https://vimeo.com/363992110 - Determinism, synchronicity and concurrency
https://sonic-pi.net/tutorial.html
The easiest resource, since it’s baked into the app itself (just click the Help button in Sonic Pi). A great online resource too, presented in an ebook style.
https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-online-resources/17
Forum thread containing loads of resources
https://www.youtube.com/user/daveconservatoire
Dave Conservatoire. 30 videos! Great stuff. While you’re at it, check out his MuseScore series
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxJoOXhg8m5LbBzczDCeZ4wzky1K578SS
Excellent series. A real computer science perspective, as opposed to Dave Conservatoire which is more musical.
Analogies of process art or conceptual art, e.g. Sol LeWitt 1, 2, Haegue Yang… ↩
Don’t forget to stop! live_audio :foo, :stop
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