Re: [9fans] scheme plan 9

[Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

The performance was enjoyable indeed, and interesting. Thanks :-) Although,
I bet you can get better results in an easier way with VST. No tool is
universal.

Just in case, the video wouldn't load even with the latest version of Adobe
Flash Player on Opera (some problem with Vimeo, presumably). I downloaded
the excerpt in MOV and watched it.

--On Thursday, September 03, 2009 08:57 -0700 Bakul Shah
<bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:29:53 BST Eris Discordia
> <eris.discordia@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> I mean, I never got past SICP Chapter 1 because that first chapter got
>> me  asking, "why this much hassle?"
>
> May be you had an impedance mismatch with SICP?
>
>> P.S. I'm leaving. You may now remove your
>> arts-and-letters-cootie-protection suits and go back to normal
>> tech-savvy  attire ;-)
>
> This may not be your cup of tea or be artsy enough for you
> but check out what happens when tech meets arts:
>
>     http://impromptu.moso.com.au/gallery.html
>
> Start the first video; may be skip the first 3 minutes or
> so but after that stay with it for a few minutes.  The author
> is creating music by *coding* in real time (and doing a great
> job!).  He uses Impromptu, a Scheme programming environment,
> that supports realtime scheduling and low level sound
> synthesis. Given Scheme one can then build arbitrarily
> complex signal processing graphs.
>
> For some subset of people this sort of thing just might be a
> better introduction to programming than SICP. Basically
> anything that allows them to do fun things with programming
> and leaves them wanting more.
>
> BTW, you too can download impromptu on OS X and synthesise
> your own noize!
>