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.
Join us here:
Meeting ID: 974 3258 0111
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/97432580111
Presentation on 21 October
The SuperCollider development team has been hard at work preparing the next release, and we can expect some significant and exciting changes in version 3.15. At the meetup in November, we’ll hear from Jordan Henderson, but this Wednesday Christof Ressi will be joining us to present the following:
In addition to this, we will also be joined by Dennis Scheiba, who will guide us through some of his compositions and approaches to his practice, which is based on live coding.
Dennis Scheiba lives in Cologne, Germany, where he studied mathematics and music and worked as a machine learning engineer and an artistic-scientific researcher; he is now Digital Lead for K3, an interdisciplinary network focusing on art and AI. His compositions have been performed at IRCAM, MIT, Johns Hopkins University, ZKM and the Ligeti Zentrum, and he also performs as a live coder.
Since 2021, he has been involved in the development of SuperCollider and co-managed the release of versions 3.14 and 3.15; he recently ported SuperCollider to the browser using WASM and created DynGen as a means of utilising JIT compilation for SuperCollider UGens.
«I have always been deeply interested in the creation, perception and organisation of sound. There are many interesting ways of doing this, but I have found that an algorithmic approach to sound offers a way of surprising me: I can apply ideas from different fields and see how I can translate them and observe them unfolding in sound. Furthermore, I have found that working with code allows me to create systems in which sound and light can influence one another, and I have ever since been drawn to audio-visual compositions.»
Outdated website: https://dennis-scheiba.com/
GitHub profile: capital-G (Dennis Scheiba) · GitHub
SONA: English — SONA
Unmaintained Instagram: @party1999
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.
