Live Coding Music with Sonic Pi

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Sonic Pi is a Ruby DSL & IDE that runs on desktop and Raspberry Pi, plays synths and samples with sample-accurate timing (claims down to milliseconds), supports multi-threaded performance via live_loop concurrency, lets code change live without tearing down, offers deterministic random seeds so riffs reproduce, imports live audio and MIDI, and ships with a 40k‑word tutorial. Demos build working beats, layered threads, and synchronized MIDI/audio rigs onstage.

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1. 0:00Programming's social perception
2. 3:53Code as expression
3. 6:23Introducing Sonic Pi
4. 10:15Sonic Pi like a guitar
5. 14:10Sample manipulation and sound design
6. 17:00Open-source access
7. 18:52Teaching concurrency
8. 21:43Live coding performance
9. 24:18Randomization vs determinism
10. 27:05Audio input and MIDI
11. 30:05Q&A

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