Coding Sound - Inventing Digital Instruments

Coding Sound is about under­stan­ding and inven­ting your own sounds, sys­tems, and instruments.

A long-stan­ding part of lev’s prac­ti­ce is its music-coding work­shops for com­ple­te beg­in­ners using Sonic Pi and, more recent­ly, Stru­del. They com­bi­ne the tech­ni­cal foun­da­ti­ons of pro­gramming with artis­tic expe­ri­men­ta­ti­on. Wit­hout any pri­or pro­gramming expe­ri­ence, par­ti­ci­pan­ts use short lines of code to com­po­se their own rhyth­ms and pie­ces of music.

Depen­ding on the con­text and for­mat, the work­shop can focus on dif­fe­rent aspects—for exam­p­le, patching as an open-ended pro­cess, impro­vi­sa­ti­on and live coding, com­po­si­ti­on, audio­vi­su­al ide­as, or the deve­lo­p­ment of uncon­ven­tio­nal inter­me­dia instruments.

For Coding Sound, we work with Pure Data, Max/MSP, Sonic Pi, Stru­del, and VCV Rack.