Who: Roly Perera

When: 11th March at 7pm, Outhouse pub

Title: A Clojure DSL for live music programming

Abstract:

Overtone is a music programming & synthesis system based on Clojure, a

modern dialect of Lisp. I'll show how you can use it to create a very

simple DSL for live-coding drum loops. I know little about Clojure or

making music, so I apologise in advance for what you will hear.

David Barbour defined an "insane language" to be one where you can ask the

same question over and over again and get a different answer each time.

Overtone and many other live-coding environments for music rely on the fact

that the Lisp family of languages is utterly mad.