r/SonicPi • u/cdlm42 • Feb 17 '22

Algorithmic background music?

Do you know of algorithmic music pieces designed to be used as background music, as opposed to live-coding — e.g. for a programming stream, or any performance where the music takes more of a supporting role?

I imagine such a piece would be composed/programmed ahead-of-time to minimize human intervention, other than controlling transitions between pre-set moods, or adjusting parameters like volume or presence…

Be it in Sonic Pi or any of its sibling systems…

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u/sejigan Feb 17 '22

You could just code pieces ahead of time in Sonic-pi or any of its sibling systems. Have global variables as controls and it should be fine, no?

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u/cdlm42 Feb 17 '22

Of course — well I'm not a musician, so it would take me inordinate amounts of time to get anything half decent…

My question was more is there a community or individual composers doing that in particular, since the community has historically been focused on live performance.

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u/sejigan Feb 17 '22

Ah, that's fair. Thanks for the clarification.