Minjae Jeong-looking outwards-10-computational music

For this week’s looking outwards, I found a Tedx talk by Ge Wang, who makes computer music. He uses a programming language called “Chuck,” and what surprised me the most in the beginning of his lecture was that I expected the software to be something similar to Logic X pro and Qbase which are professional producing softwares, but he was literally “coding”
to generate a sound. Although the basic demonstration was very simple but with the use of technology, Stanford laptop orchestra performs a piece of music with each laptop as an instrument. One of the most attractive thing about computational music to me is the ability to generate any sound, and with such ability, computational music can really create any music or sound that the “composer” wants to express.