On 24 September, there will be another Online SuperCollider meetup here at Notam. This time with Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer who will talk about her work with Supriya. Supriya is a Python API for SuperCollider - an alternative language client - in active development for more than a decade. This workshop will demonstrate usage of Supriya via an interactive Jupyter notebook, detailing its "context" interface for interacting with realtime and non-realtime servers, its support for threaded and async concurrency models, its tools for natively building SynthDef graphs, and (time-permitting) diversions into API design, unit testing, and other more advanced topics. 

Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer is a software engineer and occasional composer. She holds a PhD from Harvard University in music composition, where she focused on toolkits for symbolic composition via LilyPond and Python, and on massively-multichannel electro-acoustic music. Her doctoral thesis “A Computational Model of Music Composition” details multiple nesting layers of symbolic composition frameworks, composition-through-configuration, and the practicalities of document preparation pipelines. Since leaving academia, she has spent a decade writing and maintaining software at companies like Discogs, Capital One, and Cortico.

You can join the meeting here:
Meeting ID: 974 3258 0111
Link: https://zoom.us/j/97432580111

SuperCollider is an open source tool for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition. It is used for composition, generative music, installations, live coding, instrument building and very many other things. It is one of the most popular and widely used programming environments for audio work and is available for free for all platforms.

SuperCollider is useful for many things: algorithmic composition, generative music, live coding performances, in conjunction with microcontrollers and sensors, for installation work, multi-channel work, dsp, research, ambisonics or simply audio hacking.

At these online meetups, SuperCollider users of all skill levels come together to share ideas, frustrations, help each other and showcase projects and workflows in an inspiring and friendly way.

The host: 
The SuperCollider meetups are led by Mike McCormick. Mike McCormick is an artist and programmer working with sound, text and visual media. His work often combines algorithms and human performers. He works extensively with personal material, examining life through a voyeuristic lens to explore the ecstatic, the fragile and the banal. He grew up in Canada's subarctic region, lived nomadically for a decade, and has been based in Oslo since 2017.