Live Coding Artist. Creator of @Sonic_Pi, programmer, educator, musician, PhD, Sam 'transcends the present' - Rolling Stone. he/him [email protected]
Sheffield, England
Joined January 2007
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With the right instrument everyone is musical.
Could code be yours?
Imagine the music you could create with the expressive power of code.
Make it your 2025 resolution to get started with this friendly introductory course.
sonic-pi-studio.teachable.co…
Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) retweeted
Look who I ran into at the airport. One for social media else it didn’t happen. #CodeBEAM #SonicPi #FansOfSamAaron
AI doesn’t create slop, laziness creates slop.
I haven’t written a single line of code in a year.
Yet I created & deployed SuperSonic, Sonic Pi v5 & Sonic Pi Web with no issues.
If you’re incredibly disciplined & still have a learning mindset you can engineer amazing things.
Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) retweeted
The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder
We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge
Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages.
But we won't see non-devs push production code for a long time; possibly forever, if you ask me. Software still needs to be built in robust ways, and it's our profession to do this well, and use the new tools we have, which create new and interesting (+tough!) challenges
If your favourite programming consultants are ranting about the transformative potential of AI but aren’t producing incredible awe-inspiring next-level work with it - why are you listening to them?
Seriously.
What’s this? A “QR Code Link” you say?
Yes, it’s Sonic Pi code encoded into a url that opens ready for you to read, play and edit in Sonic Pi in your browser.
Share your live coded tracks with greater ease!
AI is enabling me to do what I would have been able to achieve with a team. It’s amazing.
Turns out the last 10 years have been me desperately treading water on my own trying to keep afloat financially whilst simultaneously attempting to do deep experimental programming work.
Ash Weather - coded in Sonic Pi by David McInnis
“Hazy detuned pads, slow tape wobble, dusty half-time drums, hiss.”
Open and play in your browser with this code link:
sonic-pi.net/code.html#code=…
Sonic Pi on Web.
Sonic Pi now runs in the web browser on your PC, tablet and phone.
patreon.com/samaaron/posts/s…
Sonic Pi now runs in the web!
sonic-pi.net
Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) retweeted
The Schedule is up and @josevalim is joining us with his keynote: Set-Theoretic Types from Scratch + Extended Q&A!
Two days, two tracks, and a lineup we are proud of. Two days, two tracks, and a lineup we are proud of.
KEYNOTES:
@samaaron, Brooklyn Zelenka, @josevalim
SPEAKERS:
@mraaroncruz (our incredible ElixirConf US Track Host), @aramallo, Benedikt Reinartz, Björn Gustavsson, @elbrujohalcon, Cara Superlativo, Chris Beck, Dan Janowski, Davide Bettio, Ellyse Cedeno, @erik_stenman, @giacomo_cava, Guillaume Heu, Hayleigh Thompson, Iryna Kostiuk, @maennchen_, @kamila_pokoj, Kero van Gelder, @louispilfold, Lucas Sifoni, @garazdawi, Matt Swensen, Mauricio Cassola, @textrecycling, Raimo Niskanen, Rebecca Reusch, @errebino, Robert Fiko, @robertoaloi, Spoorthy Sridhara, @PragTob, Travis Fantina, plus training day trainers Luca Dei Zotti, Erik Stenman & Måns af Klercker and Chris Beck.
And the organizing team that will be there on site is: Monika, Ewa, John and Paulina (in case you missed us). ;)
Join us in Haarlem or online, 21-22 October, to hear José and many others: codebeameurope.com/#register
#CodeBEAMEurope #Erlang #Elixir #Gleam #BEAM
What's this? Another screen shot of Sonic Pi v5?
Oh no my friend...
This is a completely new implementation of Sonic Pi running live in my web browser running on top of SuperSonic.
Coming soon to a browser near you...
A quick demo of Sonic Pi controlling VST plugins.
Note that it's not just trigging like a MIDI track, it's also algorithmically controlling the controls (cutoff in this example).
Not sure why but Sonic Pi is on the front page of Hacker News again!
Please join in the discussion in the comments :-)
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
I currently have a working experimental build of Sonic Pi that has support for VST plugins.
My current plan is to release it as Sonic Pi Pro exclusively available to Patreon supporters only.
It’s going to be a complete game changer.
I might be working on a completely new audio DSP engine that combines my favourite parts of SuperCollider and Erlang…
I’m really honoured that the School of Computer Science at The University of Sheffield have extended my Visiting Scholar status for a further 3 years.
I look forward to deepening the collaboration & continuing my research into expressive programming langs for music & education.
It’s been over 2 weeks since Sonic Pi v5 was released and still no major issues found.
I’m still over the moon that the release has gone so smoothly.
github.com/sonic-pi-net/soni…
