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

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Andrew Sorensen's OSCON 2014 keynote, in which he live-codes music on stage using his Impromptu and Extempore environments. He writes and changes code while it plays, treating programming as a live performance.

HN people hold it up as the best demo of live-coding music and as inspiration for programming as a creative, real-time instrument.

“This video of one of his presentations on Impromptu is one of my all-time favorite programming talks”
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@xiaohanyu2025 · in “Programming languages used for music”
The best demo for music programming language demo I can found is: ▶ this video The concert programmer.
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@epiccoleman2024 · in “Shadama: A particle simulation programming environment for everyone”
Andrew Sorensen is awesome. This video of one of his presentations on Impromptu is one of my all-time favorite programming talks: ▶ this video
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@birriel2022 · in “The Concert Programmer (2014) [video]”
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@agentwiggles2022 · in ““Compiling” Music”
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: ▶ this video
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@thdrdt2020 · in “Electronic music pioneer Simeon Coxe has died”
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: ▶ this video
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@soulofmischief2019 · in “Programming reminds me of my stand up comedy days (2018)”
Then you'll love Extempore: ▶ this video
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@wkcamp2015 · in “Andrew Sorensen Keynote: “The Concert Programmer” – OSCON 2014 [video]”
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@sytelus2015 · in “The Concert Programmer (2014) [video]”
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@TobbenTM2015 · in “Sonic Pi: Make Music Using Ruby”
For some extra musical-coding-inspiration, watch the wonderful Andrew Sorensen: ▶ this video
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@yuanqing2014 · in “The Concert Programmer: Making music with code, live”
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@yaxu2014 · in “Andrew Sorensen live coding music at OSCON”
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@tta2014 · in “The Concert Programmer”
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