Composing Code Podcast

Hey Composing Code Listeners! We’re coming at you very soon with a new season, a new direction, and a new lease on life. Stay tuned for a more focused podcast with an emphasis on digital signal processing and its musical applications.

James and Shane talk about all things loops and then loop it back to music where Shane explains some music theory and James helps him talk out some coding strategies.  

James and Shane discuss starting and (hopefully) completing a personal project. They talk about strategies for keeping it manageable and why getting a good grade in your computer science class may not be enough.

The second part of our in depth interview with Jonah Dempcy. We put him to the test by asking him to make musical analogies for common programming ideas and continue further down the rabbit hole. Intro music is Double the Daily Dose by Jonah’s project, Revolution Void. Check them out on Spotify!

Join us for a wild ride a we speak with musician and programmer Jonah Dempcy. We discuss everything from the proto-internet days, to the demoscene to Dwarf Fortress and talk about how to channel your musicality into 1s and 0s. This is part 1 of a 2 part interview. Check back soon for the rest! […]

In this episode, our cohosts discuss variables and how they apply to the Finnish bucket culture. They also talk about why analogies eventually fall apart when relating to computer science. Links of interest: Dark Synth is the the crazy synthesizer with 2048 independent sin wav oscillators.

In this latest episode, our co-hosts take a look at the Sound library in Processing as they attempt to translate the basic elements of visual drawing into sound. Show Notes Here’s a great blog post about Karlheinz Stockhausen’s early electronic pieces, including the visual score for Studie I. Here’s our GitHub repository where you can […]

In the second episode, Shane and James start getting into the language and syntax of processing. They dive into the basic Setup and Draw functions and why you might want to use them. They also delve further into the mystery of Zoog. Where did this creature come from? Is Zoog benevolent or is Zoog here […]

In the premier episode, co-hosts Shane and James talk about how they got into code and music. They also discuss common hangups and misconceptions around learning to code and math. Other topics explored are the ethics of data science, how the congress in the USA needs some serious code lessons, and how to use math to get an intentionally poor grade in math.