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• Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine

  Renoise is super cool. If you're interested in live coding, you might also want to check out Glicol (https://glicol.org). Its parser and audio engine are also implemented purely in Rust, and it supports declarative, dynamic updates. A no_std version for embedded systems is also in development. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• Sapf: New Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth [video]

  I have starred this language for a while. I considered similar form when I designed the Glicol syntax, but I still wanted it to be more readable in live performance. If you are looking for a language that can be used on Linux, you might want to try Glicol: https://glicol.org/ You can use it directly through wasm on the web page, and there is also a cli version: - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago

• Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy

  Reading about Eno's ideas on organization and variety makes me want to share some perspectives directly from my experience with music performance practice, specifically in live coding. For a long time, the common practice in live coding, which you might see on platforms like Flok.cc (https://flok.cc) supporting various interesting languages, has been like this: Everyone gets their own 'space' or editor. From... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices

  Have you considered using webtransport? When I was developing Glicol (https://glicol.org/) sync, the main challenge is network jitter. Had to remove it eventually. Furthermore, have you factored in the synchronization as perceived by the listener? Also, it seems system-level differences, particularly in audio output latency across various OS and hardware setups, would need to be considered. What I mean is, the... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Migrating Away from Rust

  I completely understand, and it's not the first time I've heard of people switching from Bevy to Unity. Btw Bevy 0.16 just came out in case you missed the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787012) after 2 years. I start from embedded devices, switching to crates like Chumsky, and I feel the ecosystem has improved a lot compared to before. So I still have 100% confidence in Rust. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

  After trying to start a business for a year, I basically gave up negotiating with VCs. My current goal is to spend half of my time on the development and maintenance of open source projects, such as Glicol (https://glicol.org/). The other half of my time is to do some profitable business. I just found that the VC model is not suitable for my current situation. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Graphics Livecoding in Common Lisp

  There are similar trends in music and sound art, which can be experienced with Glicol (https://glicol.org/) as well as many other languages here: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Variable duty cycle square waves with the Web Audio API

  For that case I guess AudioWorklet would be a more recommanded way to experiment you might also be interested in Glicol (https://glicol.org/) especially this example: https://glicol.org/tour#meta2 it's rust -> wasm -> sab -> audioworklet. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden

  Really interesting to read about this! That's wonderful validation for a vital digital culture and its heritage. As the creator of Glicol (https://glicol.org/), based in Oslo and working in the digital arts space, I'm always fascinated by how different countries foster creative technology. Sweden's approach in recognizing the demoscene this way is particularly encouraging. It makes me reflect on the pathways to... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns

  I would be happy to port some patterns to Glicol (https://glicol.org/) only suggestion: support https... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Show HN: I made a Sonic Pi MCP to create music with prompts

  I am also working on MCP for Glicol (https://glicol.org/). But I think Gemini's multimodality may be more suitable than Claude. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Adults can learn perfect pitch

  Limut implements WebAudio and WebGL, and FoxDot-like patterns and samples: https://github.com/sdclibbery/limut https://Draw.Audio/ "Using the Web Audio API to Make a Modem" (2017). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Hedy: Textual Programming Made Easy

  Love the mission! My project Glicol (https://glicol.org/) also has a lot of classroom practice. But I think what children need most is to provide very simple to complex examples for modification. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Synthesizing Music from JSON

  Very nice. Really love the ui. For wasm you can have a look on my work: https://glicol.org/ https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol I wrote the audio engine in Rust and load it in JS with AudioWorklet and SharedArrayBuffer. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music

  One of the classics and must-reads in music technology. I read it over and over again when I was building: https://glicol.org/ One of the motivations for building Glicol is to quickly let more people understand sound synthesis and music programming in the browser. Also recommand: Designing Audio Effect Plugins in C++ by Will Pirkle Audio Effects Theory, Implementation and Application By Joshua Reiss, Andrew... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Music as Language (2019) [pdf]

  TidalCycles (https://tidalcycles.org/) is indeed written in Haskell - another take on 'music as language', though through live coding Full disclosure: I'm the author of Glicol (https://glicol.org/). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Floss/fund: $1M per year for free and open source projects

  I have been developing and maintaining https://glicol.org for 4 years. I have donation page on github but only got it from 2 people. It seems all the donation service providers requirs login. I don't know why we cannot have a guest mode like regular shopping website. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Furnace – the biggest multi-system chiptune tracker ever made

  Perhaps give https://glicol.org/ a try? - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool

  If you're interested in live coding, feel free to try Glicol (https://glicol.org). There's also TidalCycles. I have to praise the ability of Haskell and Ruby in creating DSLs For Glicol, my thoughts on language design are focused on a synth-inspired syntax, speed for composition, and convenience of sound design. The idea is to design a DSL that draws from previous programming habits but isn't confined to existing... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Glisp: Graphical Lisp

  Great project. I really agree with the philosophy of code for design. I often feel that code is more useful than gui in many cases. I developed Glicol (https://glicol.org) for composition and sound design. In addition, I have always thought that there should be a better way to make slides. I have tried revealjs and now use remark, but I hope there will be a simpler way to achieve programmatic specification like... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Musical Notation for Modular Synthesizers

  Since my master's studies, I have been researching this topic. I highly recommend Professor Thor Magnusson's book, "Sonic Writing" (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sonic-writing-9781501313868/), as well as all of his research. For example, in this article, he discusses algorithms as "Algorithms as Scores" (https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/268697/Magnusson.pdf). These concepts have profoundly... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago