Awesome Live Coding Music

A curated list of awesome Music Live Coding Music environments, libraries and talks.

Pull requests welcome!

Environments

Name	Summary	Language
SuperCollider	platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition	Smalltalk-like (SClang)
Sonic Pi	complete open source programming environment originally designed to explore and teach programming concepts	Ruby
Overtone	open source audio environment designed to explore new musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to instrument building, live-coding and collaborative jamming	Clojure
TidalCycles	language for live coding of pattern	Haskell
Alda	music programming language for musicians	Alda/Clojure
Gibber	live coding environment for the web browser	Javascript
Extempore	cyber-physical programming environment	Scheme-like
FoxDot	pre-processed Python programming environment that provides a fast and user-friendly abstraction to SuperCollider	Python
ORCΛ	esoteric programming language designed to quickly create procedural sequencers	JavaScript
Punkt	live coding music library/environment for Kotlin, for software developers who want to dive into live coding music	Kotlin
Gwion	a programming language designed for making music and sound inspired by ChucK but also has a REPL mode you can use for live-coding	Gwion

Libraries

Name	Summary	Language
Klangmeister	musical scratchpad	ClojureScript
Leipzig	composition library for Clojure and Clojurescript	Clojure, ClojureScript
Disclojure	live coding environment for Overtone and Leipzig	Clojure
Mud	layer over Overtone to make live composition more powerful and immediate	Clojure

Talks

Author	Summary	Environment
Sam Aaron	Programming Music with Overtone	Overtone
Sam Aaron	Teaching computer science with music	Overtone, Sonic Pi
Sam Aaron	Programming as Performance	Sonic Pi
Chris Ford	Functional Composition	Overtone, Leipzig
Andrew Sorensen	The Concert Programmer	Extempore
David Yarwood	Alda: A Music Programming Language, Built in Clojure	Alda
Alex McLean	Algorave: algorithmic dance culture TEDxHull	TidalCycles

Performances

Author	Summary	Environment
Sébastien Rannou (mxs)	Daft Punk - Aerodynamic with Sonic Pi	Sonic Pi
Ryan Kirkbride	Live Coding Pop Music with Python and SuperCollider	FoxDot
Sam Aaron	Outrun	Sonic Pi
Mike Hodnick (kindohm)	Live @ ICLC 2016, Hamilton, Ontario	TidalCycles
Joseph Wilk	RubyConf 2018 - REPL-ELECTRIC	Sonic Pi
Piotr Jagielski	"Shape Of You" live coded with Overtone	Overtone, Disclojure
Piotr Jagielski	Daft Punk - "Da Funk" Quarantine Remix	Punkt, Kotlin

Related lists

Name	Maintainer	Summary
All things livecoding	TOPLAP	A curated list of live coding languages and tools