There's a whole subgenre of programming called algorave (algorithmic rave) which is oriented around building music using functional/declarative paradigms. It's

There's a whole subgenre of programming called algorave (algorithmic rave) which is oriented around building music using functional/declarative paradigms. It's a super cool creative branch of prog research, much of it involving live programming, funky editors/IDEs (Ixi Lang is the macOS rich text editor, where on certain key combos its content is piped and the colours of the editor changed live -- bit of a hack and super cool). Check some out -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAq4BAbvRS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAq4BAbvRS4