Strange Loop Conference | "Functional Composition" by Chris Ford (2013) @StrangeLoopConf | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Music theory is one of the most naturally elegant and functional domains. It's a perfect fit for Clojure, which is why the Overtone audio environment makes hacking sound so much fun.
Chris will start with the basic building block of sound, the sine wave, and will gradually accumulate abstractions culminating in a canon by Johann Sebastian Bach.
By the end you should agree that anyone who's a developer is a musician too - even if they don't know it yet.
Chris Ford
twitter.com/ctford
ThoughtWorks
Chris Ford has been fascinated by functional programming since he first stumbled across Haskell during a misguided attempt to study electrical engineering. He came to his senses, and has spent the last six years happily coding in various countries across the world. He now lives in Kampala, working for ThoughtWorks Uganda.
Music theory is one of the most naturally elegant and functional domains. It's a perfect fit for Clojure, which is why the Overtone audio environment makes hacking sound so much fun.
Chris will start with the basic building block of sound, the sine wave, and will gradually accumulate abstractions culminating in a canon by Johann Sebastian Bach.
By the end you should agree that anyone who's a developer is a musician too - even if they don't know it yet.
Chris Ford
twitter.com/ctford
ThoughtWorks
Chris Ford has been fascinated by functional programming since he first stumbled across Haskell during a misguided attempt to study electrical engineering. He came to his senses, and has spent the last six years happily coding in various countries across the world. He now lives in Kampala, working for ThoughtWorks Uganda.
