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Sam Aaron is so inspirational to see in person - so focused on achieving something of cultural significance (teaching a generating to code by drawing them into
by sgrove 10y ago
Sam Aaron is so inspirational to see in person - so focused on achieving something of cultural significance (teaching a generating to code by drawing them into music-via-code), so effective in his mission. I can't recommend enough seeing him, or having uk as a keynote speaker, or having him as an amazing dj at your conference.
Sonic-pi (and overtone, which was my first intro to this stuff) is a wonderful piece of creative software on its own, but combined with a human it's really a new form of art.
- markc 10y agoTotally agree, this is great stuff. Every school could have a "music programming lab" with inexpensive Sonic Pi workstations. They are easy to mass produce. I hope teams of parents get together and fund these for their local schools. I put together my own from a Pi 2 and mostly spare parts. Pi 2, case, power supply (Adafruit $65 shipped) 8g Micro SD w/ Raspian Linux (spare parts) Keyboard, Mouse (spare parts) Speakers or headphones (spare parts) HDMI, Ethernet cables (spare parts) Monitor (just used my TV) You can also run Sonic-Pi on a PC/Mac, which would let some kids continue their explorations outside of the lab.
- sgrove 10y agoSpeaking of funding, Sam has a Patreon page to support his amazing work (and transitively the children learning to code with his tools). It's definitely worth supporting with a few quid a month at https://patreon.com/samaaron https://patreon.com/samaaron