Coding music let's you think about music composition in new ways.
I've found it easy to experiment with looping audio samples at different speeds with Sonic Pi (including backwards) and applying FX effects. Syncing the timing of loops playing is easy with Sonic Pi's `live_loop` cues.
Composing with audio samples has long traditions in magnetic tape manipulation, and later in the isolated beat loops in hip-hop.
Musique Concrète - beginning in the early 1940s - is a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material.
Delia Derbyshire used tape manipulation to create the original electronic realisation of the Doctor Who theme score in 1963, and in many other compositions from that decade.
I've found it easy to experiment with looping audio samples at different speeds with Sonic Pi (including backwards) and applying FX effects. Syncing the timing of loops playing is easy with Sonic Pi's `live_loop` cues.
Composing with audio samples has long traditions in magnetic tape manipulation, and later in the isolated beat loops in hip-hop.
Musique Concrète - beginning in the early 1940s - is a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material.
Delia Derbyshire used tape manipulation to create the original electronic realisation of the Doctor Who theme score in 1963, and in many other compositions from that decade.