Live Coding Artist. Creator of @Sonic_Pi, programmer, educator, musician, PhD, Sam 'transcends the present' - Rolling Stone. he/him bookings@sonic-pi.net
Sheffield, England
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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
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What do you mean? If you’re asking me if i use LLMs for performances then absolutely not. I prefer to have the music come from my brain to the speakers with no mediation.
I totally understand and respect people that do want LLMs to be involved in that pathway though.
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IANAL but any music you create with Sonic Pi isn't subject to any copyright restrictions - unless you copy existing copyrighted music or use external copyrighted pre-recorded sounds.
So - make original compositions with the built-in synths and samples and you'll be fine.
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Yes, it's AGPL and part of the Sonic Pi git repo: github.com/sonic-pi-net/soni…
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Yes it’s open source. It’s AGPL and part of the Sonic Pi repo on GitHub.
github.com/sonic-pi-net/soni…
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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.
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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
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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=…
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Of course :-)
SuperSonic is my Wasm (Audioworklet) port of SuperCollider's scsynth audio server.
I've also re-implemented the Sonic Pi language runtime using embedded Ruby (mruby) which compiles to WASM.
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It's waaay safer now with the web version. I also have a number of interesting ideas in this area that I hope to explore.
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