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SuperSonic: SuperCollider synth is fun, playful, colorful, free, in any Web page
It’s the full SuperCollider synth, without the installation. You can add it to any site (self-hosted). It performs seamlessly via WebAssembly. But most importantly, it’s fun, colorful, and comes with examples and an OSC API so it can interface with live coding tools like Tidal (or your favorite). And you can mess around with it right now, for free.
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Tau5 will be a hub for live coding music, visuals, and art with friends – or bots
Sonic Pi creator Sam Aaron is building something new. It’s early days, but Tau5 promises to be a “next-gen” creative coding environment. You can use it with your favorite tools, including Ableton Live, hardware, TidalCycles, Hydra, and others. And you never have to feel alone: you can jam with others, code with friends, and even code with AI — or keep it all-human if you prefer. Let’s explain.
Laurie Spiegel interview offers a way of thinking about community, imagination
What could community and imagination in music making look like? Laurie Spiegel’s reflections on the 70s and earlier decades, recorded in 2014, offer some clues, even for a very different time today.
In Instruments series, encounters between inventors and musicians, watchable online
Peter Kirn - October 8, 2021
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SuperCollider 3.12 updates massively powerful, free sound synthesis coding environment
Peter Kirn - August 4, 2021
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arcologies is wonderfully archaic music art for monome norns
Peter Kirn - September 1, 2020
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Free sound and music code environment SuperCollider is adding Ableton Link support
Peter Kirn - March 17, 2020
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