Programming as Performance | Sam Aaron | TEDxNewcastle 

I'm 31 now - A self taught web-developer and music maker and audio engineer. I wish they'd taught me about computers and modern technology when I was at school. It was the most boring subject and not creative in any way. It was a real struggle to learn programming and creative use of computers in my late twenties. Obviously we should have had this guy as a teacher instead! Thanks for the video :)

damn TEDx .... Y U NOT show us the screen when Sam's typing code -.-

He makes a really good point about programming... you can do so much with programming.

I got a raspberry pi2 this last Xmas, have been self-teaching programming for at least 7 months now, I was amazed by Sonic Pi, had no idea it was included in the RPI. I'm finally getting the hang of programming, and my only regret is not starting sooner! (I'm 23) Thank you very much for the brilliant work Sam Aaron! "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

You have no idea how many times I sent a link to this video to all the people making the same excuse in various Open Source projects. Thank you for such a great way of explaining the essence in just the first five minutes!

I majored in math and computer science. My job is neither, but I use them all the time. This talk has helped me to be okay with that. Also, Sonic Pi helped me get in to music.

It's always useful to have full control over machines. No matter if you learn to drive a car or to program a computer, both is not required to survive in life, but it does come in handy at times.

interesting talk, but I would like to see what he is doing - Should have shown the screen

Damn, this guy has passion

Absolutely amazing! Thanks!

Thank You For Your Space of Consciousness and just follow your heart ...and Thank You , You are give this Gift to Me, I think Was A Lot of work to make this work, Very Thank You!!

Nice talk. As a coder and music teacher I can agree with what Sam says. I'm not sure what Sam says is (about mainstream musical knowledge and kids) is totally true. I'd also like to ask why we're not talking about SuperCollider, Chuck, CSound, Impromtu, Earsketch and several more.

Really inspiring talk!

This is amazing, like a more intuitive MAX - very inspirational

Audience didn't get it at all. This is whole paradigm shift in music similar to what EDM brought in 70s and 80s and look at it now. We have this massive fan following, there are countless music festivals garnering millions of audience and it's a flourishing billion dollar industry. This is what it is now. THIS IS HUGE AND EXCITING. I just came to know about Sonic Pi in 2022 and I have been playing with it for the past few days. It is absolutely fabulous piece of technology. We are still at the early stage of this revolution.

great talk. I feel the same - the skill of coding is going to be as important as writing and counting. But for this to become reality it is not enough just to state it. Comparing coding to writing is an exaggeration. Writing/reading became prolific because of the needs of everyday life, signing contracts and reading newspapers. And there was already a common language used by people *everyday*. But with coding? how often do you use that exact procedural formalized thinking in everyday situations? Nevertheless I fully appreciate and support introduction to programming through music live coding as it helps developing logical thinking and ability to solve problems more quickly.

It would be nice to see the screen while he's typing.. anyway, this is awesome!

It's the most interesting thing I have ever seen keep it up

The argument here are NUTS! I've seen personally myself how computer and technology can actually diminish and decapitate musical skills! Students start relying mainly on computer to produce sounds, pitches, and chords, without actually understanding the underlying mechanisms and theoretical knowledge behind them. I have a student who are proud to tell stories about how a music-making software (along the line of ableton or something) can produce arpeggio chords automatically, without himself being able to play these arpeggios fluently on his instrument. My composition teacher once tells me about the effect of music notation software on student-composers: it is easy to copy and paste music on music notation software and thus instead of telling and making sure these software serve their musical intention, most often students tend to be constrained by the ingrained ability of the notation software. Another teacher of mine, this time a piano teacher, tells about the unhelpful ingrained capacity of an electric keyboard to create the sounds of chords from a shortcut function she calls the 'Casio Chords'. Thus instead of learning chords properly on the keyboard, these students learn that C minor can be produced by pressing the key C with D, which resembles nothing like C minor at all in a real piano. Effective musical skills need to be built with persistence and intelligence, alongside playing musical instruments and understanding theoretical knowledge. I am not against technological development, but please put technology in the right place. Young people nowadays has been exposed with more and more technology and it has been shown how it is starting to negatively impact their development. Children nowadays are in risk of having little social skills, shorter concentration span, as they have the tendency to want something fast and instant.

Excellent!

Cool video, didn't know making music was that easy via code, so good job developing it! Is this pre-installed on the Pi? Just started learning Python, not learning to code really isn't an excuse in modern life.

someone needs to do can can in sonic pi

This guy is a genius.

He worked on two major codes: 1. notes = (scale :e3, :minor_pentatonic) live_loop :foo do sample :loop_industrial, beat_stretch: 1, rate: 1 sleep 1 end live_loop :beats do sample :bd_haus, amp: 0 sleep 0.5 end live_loop :vortex do use_synth :tb303 play notes.choose, release: 0.1, cutoff: 100 sleep 0.125 end 2. An Example called Rerezzed use_debug false notes = (scale :e1, :minor_pentatonic, num_octaves: 2).shuffle live_loop :rerezzed do tick_reset t = 0.04 sleep -t with_fx :bitcrusher do s = synth :dsaw, note: :e3, sustain: 8, note_slide: t, release: 0 64.times do sleep 0.125 control s, note: notes.tick end end sleep t end live_loop :industry do sample :loop_industrial, beat_stretch: 1 sleep 1 end live_loop :drive do sample :bd_haus, amp: 3 sleep 0.5 end

What is that loop he talks about at 13:00?

he plays awesooome)

You could double the inspiration just by showing the screen with the code you are typing, great presentation though

You can see the screen is his talk at from OSCON 2015 in Amsterdam /watch?v=ENfyOndcvP0

Is he using das keyboard 4C?

go Sam :-)

14:36

like.

Boy oh boy, this audience is SO DEAD!

was this audience dead or plain stupid.. they were just sitting around with no reaction throughout the talk. This was one of the more creative and amusing talks..

What all of these "everyone should program" talks seem to forget is that programming wont help you anything if you're not good at it.