Live Coding Music: Can You Code? Become a Composer with WebAudio and WebMIDI!

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Shows how any developer can create and live-code electronic music using only a web browser by leveraging the WebAudio and WebMIDI APIs together with the Tone.js library. Covers examples of musical coding environments (Sonic Pi, FoxDot), builds a live electro piece using samples, sequenced harmonies and controlled randomness, and introduces generative techniques using Markov chains and L‑systems.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:24Live coding environments for music
3. 8:03Web Audio
4. 8:35Cheap (but useful) MIDI devices
5. 29:28Intervals in the major scale

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