Sean Lee sleexyz

A Comparison of Interfaces: Programming Languages vs. Musical Instruments

As interfaces, musical instruments are simple at their individual components, yet are evidently capable of much improvisatory creative realtime expression by a human. On the other hand, progamming languages are complex interfaces that are infinitely more expressive when "integrated" over time, but regardless perhaps not as capable of realtime creative expression.

Is this a inevitable tradeoff?

As interfaces, how are instruments different from live-coding?

How can use these differences to make programming more expressive?

Nix on OSX:

Here is the proper installation guide. Do not look at any quick-start guides! All the other installation guides I found were lacking.

NixOS on MacBook:

Resources

This guide will help you get supercollider running on your ASUS Chromebook Flip cb100pa in a browser tab!

1. Install crouton

Enable developer mode, download crouton, and install Ubuntu Trusty to a microsd card with just the core target:

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -p /media/removable/SD\ Card/crouton -t core -r trusty

	{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, ccache, makeWrapper, qmake4Hook, qt4, libftdi1, alsaLib, libudev, libusb}:

	stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
	name = "qlcplus-${version}";
	version = "4.10.3";

	src = fetchurl {
	url = "http://www.qlcplus.org/downloads/${version}/qlcplus_${version}.tar.gz";
	sha256 = "1mrhlqvbgs8qnj7qik70a3gywvmck1malygqi0hm403j5w6f2bgb";
	};

	const WIDTH = window.innerWidth;
	const HEIGHT = window.innerHeight;

	let multiplied = false;
	let canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");

	canvas.width = WIDTH;
	canvas.height = HEIGHT;

	let canvasCtx = canvas.getContext("2d");

	{ config, pkgs, ... }:

	{
	imports =
	[
	./hardware-configuration.nix
	];

	boot.extraModprobeConfig = ''
	options hid_apple fnmode=2

	/// # Make-A-Lisp interpreter

	extern crate rl_sys; // GNU readline bindings
	extern crate regex;

	use regex::Regex;
	use std::str::FromStr;
	use std::collections::HashMap;

	# Install homebrew
	command -v brew > /dev/null 2&>1 \|\| ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

	# Install ranger
	brew install ranger

	# Add imgcat to ~/bin
	test -d $HOME/bin \|\| mkdir $HOME/bin
	wget -O ~/bin/imgcat https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnachman/iTerm2/master/tests/imgcat

	mutation is fast to write
	immutable is slow to write, but in that way safer

	{
	var t, output;
	t = PulseCount.ar(Impulse.ar(8000));


	}.play