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ComputeMusic(now): Andrew Sorensen at TEDxQUT

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  • Recommended by 2 people: 2 in engineering communities.
  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2013 to 2019.
  • Presented by Andrew Sorensen, creator of Extempore

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Programming languagesGraphics and audioCreative codingAudio and DSPFunctional programming

Andrew Sorensen demonstrates live-coding music and visuals using his programming environments.

Andrew Sorensen is an artist-programmer, whose interests lie at the intersection of computer science and creative practice. Andrew is well known for creating the programming languages that he uses in live performance to generate improvised audiovisual theatre. Andrew has performed around the world, and is the author of the Impromptu and Extempore programming language environments. Andrew uses live-coding to perform this piece ComputeMusic(now) at TEDxQUT. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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What people say. Recommended as an example of live cyberphysical programming and creative coding.

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u/cosmologicianin r/compsci • Recommends

On “Examples of prominent programmers and/or new practices in the 2010s”

Dan Abramov was the first to come to mind. I have massive respect for what he's accomplished. While he started his work in the 2000's, I think Andrew Sorensen deserves an honorable mention for his work in the last decade for helping to lay the foundations of live cyberphysical programming. While it wasn't the hip new thing this decade like many were hoping, I think with VR and more digital-physical integration we are on the cusp of cyberphysical programming becoming or recreational/experimental programming in general becoming much more prevalent. After this thread has its run OP, it might be worth posting a thread asking how people expect the landscape will shift in the next decade.
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ComputeMusic(now): Andrew Sorensen at TEDxQUT
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