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My experiments with Sonic Pi: 2. Are Microwaves Friends?
Music, Sonic Pi, Coding Akhil Srivatsan Music, Sonic Pi, Coding Akhil Srivatsan

My experiments with Sonic Pi: 2. Are Microwaves Friends?

With this Sonic Pi experiment, the idea was to a. see if I could compose an entire track on Sonic Pi, and b. see how easy or difficult such composition was. I set out to compose a minimal house track, now tentatively called Are Microwaves Friends? I used 808 and 909 samples to build the percussive spine of the track. For the bass and melodies, I used the preloaded synths.

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My experiments with Sonic Pi:  1. No Surprises.
Sonic Pi, Music Akhil Srivatsan Sonic Pi, Music Akhil Srivatsan

My experiments with Sonic Pi: 1. No Surprises.

To see how easy it was to arrange No Surprises by Radiohead on Sonic Pi. Every exploration has to start somewhere and my exploration of Sonic Pi has started with what I would classify as a successful attempt at coding a cover of No Surprises. Why No Surprises? Because I like it. And Sonic Pi’s default keys reminded me of the keys on the intro of the song.

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Sonic Pi: a short introduction
Music, Sonic Pi, Coding Akhil Srivatsan Music, Sonic Pi, Coding Akhil Srivatsan

Sonic Pi: a short introduction

Ever since I've known about live coding music, I've wanted to do it. And ever since I’ve wanted to do it, I’ve wanted to do it on Sonic Pi. But fact is, ‘ever since’ has been three laptops, eight years, zero code. Until now, that is. The prospects, I must say, are really exciting.

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Lo-Fi Player explorations
Mixed media, Music, Magenta Akhil Srivatsan Mixed media, Music, Magenta Akhil Srivatsan

Lo-Fi Player explorations

This a browser-based virtual room in which you can generate instrumental lo-fi hip-hop tracks that’s powered by machine learning models from magenta.js. A room loads with multiple items in it: a guitar, a keyboard, a bass guitar, a TV, a radio, view outside, etc. You tinker with each of these to either change the way the room looks or the music that’s being played.

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