Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure(overtone.github.io)
overtone.github.io
Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure
https://overtone.github.io
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Recently I watched a great presentation[0] about Overtone by Chris Ford, delivered back in 2012.
It was also the first time I saw my SO interested in a programming language talk - she isn't familiar with programming, but she does have a music background.
[0] https://youtu.be/Mfsnlbd-4xQ
[0] https://youtu.be/Mfsnlbd-4xQ
Most live coding languages relying on SuperCollider can take advantage of the client-server architecture of SC and support collaboration easily. So it's very interesting that the concept of collaboration is highlighted on Overtone website. Is it embedded in the language aspect?
When I develop Glicol[1], I want to build a WYSIWYG style: for example commenting out a line will mute the track. But it brought some challenges to collaboration so I have to build some "consensus" mechanism on top of the Google doc style text co-editing (powered by yjs[2]).
[1] https://glicol.org/
[2] https://github.com/yjs/yjs
When I develop Glicol[1], I want to build a WYSIWYG style: for example commenting out a line will mute the track. But it brought some challenges to collaboration so I have to build some "consensus" mechanism on top of the Google doc style text co-editing (powered by yjs[2]).
[1] https://glicol.org/
[2] https://github.com/yjs/yjs
This is really cool!
Check out SuperCollider and Clojure for more on the tech behind Overtone. They offer great resources for audio programming and live coding!
>If setup and draw are hard working artistic gladiators, sketch is the arena in which they battle for the glory of art. However, they don't actually fight each other - they work as a team - relentlessly spilling colour all over the arena sands. The crowds roar for messy fight.
He has the right attitude.
He has the right attitude.
Looks pretty neat.
Their logo is reminiscent of the old Fushia OS logo https://ms.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail:Google_Fuchsia_Logo.svg
Their logo is reminiscent of the old Fushia OS logo https://ms.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail:Google_Fuchsia_Logo.svg
How does overtone compare to Tidal Cycles and are there plans to make it run in the browser (like the Strudel project)?
The lead developer seems to have move on to https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi
Strange dice that it seems to mostly be c++, sponsored by 3 prominent elixir shops, with an original OSC server implementation by Joe Armstrong.
https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/tree/dev/app/server...
https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/tree/dev/app/server...
Probably due to them being UK based.
If you want to use something similar to Clojure, there is CL-Collider, the common lisp front end to supercollider.
Or on a related but different tip, I am the author of Scheme for Max and Scheme for Pd, which you can use to script Max and PD with s7 Scheme. I will be doing another release this fall having now just finished my Master's thesis on it. There is also Julien Vincenot's MoZLib for CL alongside Max. Extempore is another Scheme based live coding system.