A curated list of awesome Music Live Coding Music environments, libraries and talks.
Pull requests welcome!
| Name | Summary | Language |
|---|---|---|
| SuperCollider | platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition | Smalltalk-like (SClang) |
| Sonic Pi | complete open source programming environment originally designed to explore and teach programming concepts | Ruby |
| Overtone | open source audio environment designed to explore new musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to instrument building, live-coding and collaborative jamming | Clojure |
| TidalCycles | language for live coding of pattern | Haskell |
| Alda | music programming language for musicians | Alda/Clojure |
| Gibber | live coding environment for the web browser | Javascript |
| Extempore | cyber-physical programming environment | Scheme-like |
| FoxDot | pre-processed Python programming environment that provides a fast and user-friendly abstraction to SuperCollider | Python |
| ORCΛ | esoteric programming language designed to quickly create procedural sequencers | JavaScript |
| Punkt | live coding music library/environment for Kotlin, for software developers who want to dive into live coding music | Kotlin |
| Gwion | a programming language designed for making music and sound inspired by ChucK but also has a REPL mode you can use for live-coding | Gwion |
| Name | Summary | Language |
|---|---|---|
| Klangmeister | musical scratchpad | ClojureScript |
| Leipzig | composition library for Clojure and Clojurescript | Clojure, ClojureScript |
| Disclojure | live coding environment for Overtone and Leipzig | Clojure |
| Mud | layer over Overtone to make live composition more powerful and immediate | Clojure |
| Author | Summary | Environment |
|---|---|---|
| Sam Aaron | Programming Music with Overtone | Overtone |
| Sam Aaron | Teaching computer science with music | Overtone, Sonic Pi |
| Sam Aaron | Programming as Performance | Sonic Pi |
| Chris Ford | Functional Composition | Overtone, Leipzig |
| Andrew Sorensen | The Concert Programmer | Extempore |
| David Yarwood | Alda: A Music Programming Language, Built in Clojure | Alda |
| Alex McLean | Algorave: algorithmic dance culture TEDxHull | TidalCycles |
| Author | Summary | Environment |
|---|---|---|
| Sébastien Rannou (mxs) | Daft Punk - Aerodynamic with Sonic Pi | Sonic Pi |
| Ryan Kirkbride | Live Coding Pop Music with Python and SuperCollider | FoxDot |
| Sam Aaron | Outrun | Sonic Pi |
| Mike Hodnick (kindohm) | Live @ ICLC 2016, Hamilton, Ontario | TidalCycles |
| Joseph Wilk | RubyConf 2018 - REPL-ELECTRIC | Sonic Pi |
| Piotr Jagielski | "Shape Of You" live coded with Overtone | Overtone, Disclojure |
| Piotr Jagielski | Daft Punk - "Da Funk" Quarantine Remix | Punkt, Kotlin |
| Name | Maintainer | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| All things livecoding | TOPLAP | A curated list of live coding languages and tools |