presentations

2021

18 March - Glasgow CodeCraft

Making Music with Software - Duncan McGreggor

No recording or custom slides; recused slide material from other talks. However, we did a mini-workshop, based upon Andrew Sorensen’s 2015 Codemania Talk (“A Programmer’s Guide To Western Music”). The Code used for this (some of it adapted to MIDI) is available here:

• ut-proj/music/extempore-backend/demos/glasgow-codecraft-2021

10 March - CodeBEAM America (formerly “Erlang Factory, San Francisco”)

Sound on BEAM: Music in the Land of Distributed Lisp (Part II) - Duncan McGreggor

• Teaser Video
  • Song created for teaser video - “Patterns of Improbability”
  • Song created accidentally while writing demo - “Debussy’s Spiral Arm”
• Presentation Video
• Slides (speaker notes are viewable after hitting ‘s’)
• Demo

17 February - Lambda Days Functional Programming Conference

Sound on BEAM: Music in the Land of Distributed Lisp - Duncan McGreggor

• Teaser Video
  • Song created for teaser video (excerpt)
  • Full-length song (12:34)
• Presentation Video
• Slides (speaker notes are viewable after hitting ‘s’)
• Demo 1
• Demo 2

3 February - Dallas/Fort Worth BEAMers Group

Sound on BEAM: Music in the Land of Distributed Lisp - Duncan McGreggor

No recording; slides were used, but not published. They were an early iteration (and fairly different) version of what was eventually used for the Lambda Days talk. A demo was created, however:

• Demo