Bug#796550: RFP: sonic-pi -- live coding synth designed for ease of use
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : sonic-pi
Version : 2.6.0
Upstream Author : Sam Aaron
* URL : http://sonic-pi.net/
https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/
* License : MIT + CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + CC0 1.0
Programming Lang: Ruby
Description : live coding synth designed for ease of use
The doc and examples directories contain CC non-commercially licensed
content, which either need to go into non-free or be removed from the
tarball to go into main. See
<URL: https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/blob/master/LICENSE.md > for
detaljs.
The package is said to be in Raspian, but I have been unable to find the
deb and dsc in the Raspian repositories, and am unable to verify this.
I guess the build rules used there can be used in Debian too.
>From the README:
Sonic Pi is a new kind of musical instrument. Instead of strumming
strings or whacking things with sticks - you write code - live.
Sonic Pi has been designed with the aim to find a harmonious balance
between three core principles:
Simple enough for the 10 year old within you
Joyful enough for you to lose yourself through play
Powerful enough for your own expressions
Sonic Pi is a complete open source programming environment originally
designed to explore and teach programming concepts within schools
through the process of creating new sounds.
In addition to being an engaging education resource it has evolved into
an extremely powerful and performance-ready live coding instrument
suitable for professional artists and DJs.
Whilst Education is a core focus it now sits at the intersection between
three core domains:
Art - providing the means to express yourself and ask new questions of
music and notation
Technology - exploring questions related to liveness, time and
concurrency in programming languages
Education - demonstrating that open play rather than rigid structures
increases motivation and engaging in the classroom
--
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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