Dave Yarwood
Senior Software Engineer
Kevel
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Dave Yarwood is a composer, musician, and senior software engineer at Kevel. In addition to Alda (an open-source music composition programming language), he maintains a number of open-source Clojure libraries such as ezzmq (a high-level ZeroMQ library for Clojure) and Mantra (a ClojureScript Web Audio API music library). Dave holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with focuses in Music Composition and Bassoon Performance. He is endlessly fascinated by the intersecting worlds of music and programming.
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Clojure through the lens of music
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
You may be familiar with what map, filter, and reduce do. But have you ever heard how these functions sound?
The Alda language is centered around the idea that music can be represented as data. alda-clj is a Clojure library that maps Clojure data structures to the music theory concepts in the Alda language, including notes and chords. The library serves as an interface that takes Clojure code as input and produces music as output.
In addition to the basic functions that you will find in the standard libraries of most functional programming languages, Clojure's standard library offers a wealth of interesting and useful functions that facilitate working with immutable data. In this talk, we will explore the Clojure standard library by applying interesting functions like cycle, mapcat, partition and reductions to transform data that represents music. Using the alda-clj library, we will not only see the result of each function call, we will also hear the results and observe how they can help us understand how each function works. -
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