We would like to express our sincerest thanks and gratitude to everyone that has helped with either the development of Sonic Pi or supported its use in any capacity. On its own Sonic Pi is just a piece of software. Only when combined with our kind and generous community does it become a powerful tool for sharing and celebrating the creativity of code. Thank-you everyone.
The start of any project is a fragile period which relies heavily on the generous support of others. We would like to offer our considered gratitude to the following people who provided support in the early days of Sonic Pi with their time, advice, and wisdom:
- Carrie Anne Philbin
- Robert Mullins
- Alex Bradbury
- Alan Blackwell
- Rachel Drury
- Juneau Projects
- Stephan Lachowsky
The following organisations have kindly contributed to Sonic Pi:
- The Raspberry Pi Foundation
- The Broadcom Foundation
- The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
- Arts Council England
- Nesta
- pi-top
We would like to recognise the following individuals for their important contributions which have supported the Sonic Pi Community:
Much of the development, distribution and support work for Sonic Pi is carried out by the Core Team. This is a group of dedicated volunteers (with the exception of Sam Aaron who works full time on the project) who kindly donate their time to continue to improve Sonic Pi.
Current members:
Previous members:
In addition to the Sonic Pi Core Team, we would like to extend our thanks to the following developers who have donated their time and effort to help grow and improve the Sonic Pi code base:
- Sam Aaron (4001)
- Joseph Wilk (159)
- Ethan Crawford (140)
- Jeremy Weatherford (127)
- Hanno Zulla (127)
- Xavier Riley (88)
- Adrian Cheater (73)
- Martin Keegan (47)
- Nicolas Dermine (36)
- Luis Lloret (31)
- Robin Newman (25)
- Łukasz Siwiński (13)
- Emlyn Corrin (10)
- Clare Macrae (7)
- Jeroen Castelein (6)
- Kenichi Kanai (5)
- Chris Ford (3)
- Petter Reinholdtsen (3)
- Steve Traylen (3)
- Katie Miller (3)
- Mariano Guerra (3)
- Sebastien Rannou (3)
- Mark Paton (3)
- Will Stephenson (2)
- Phil Hagelberg (2)
- Mistral Contrastin (2)
- Daniel Canelhas (2)
- Scott Kitterman (2)
- Louis Pilfold (2)
- Michael Henry (2)
- Bruce Adams (2)
- William W. Wu (2)
- Ben Nuttall (2)
- Franz Laügt (2)
- Christoph B. Wurzinger (1)
- Jose Añasco (1)
- Björn Ekström (1)
- Sebastian Stahn (1)
- Adlai (1)
- Alex McLean (1)
- Christian Perfect (1)
- Cosmin Stroe (1)
- Eugene Kovalev (1)
- Graham Taylor (1)
- Ivan Zarea (1)
- James Smith (1)
- James Watson (1)
- Joseph Haig (1)
- John Lawrence Aspden (1)
- Karl Hiner (1)
- Michel Kraaijeveld (1)
- Marko Peltola (1)
- Michał Lewandowski (1)
- Morgan Owens (1)
- Neal McBurnett (1)
- Nigel Michki (1)
- Pierre De Wilde (1)
- Piotr Jagielski (1)
- Roland Schmid (1)
- Roman Milovskiy (1)
- Russell Jones (1)
- Ruzsa Balázs (1)
- Ryan Bigg (1)
- Sandy Maguire (1)
- Siim Põder (1)
- Tom den Braber (1)
- Tomek Rabczak (1)
- Veith Roethlingshoefer (1)
- Brujo Rojas (1)
- Enrike Hurtado (1)
- Linda van der Pal (1)
- Paul Winstanley (1)
- Tom Holford (1)
- Aspasia Beneti (1)
The following volunteers have generously helped to translate Sonic Pi into additional languages:
- Hanno Zulla (114)
- Łukasz Siwiński (108)
- Kenichi Kanai (88)
- Nico Staelens (65)
- Sam Aaron (32)
- Federico Pepe (28)
- Ricardo Pozo (23)
- Giovanni Mori (20)
- Petter Reinholdtsen (17)
- Wolfgang Werner (14)
- Mircea Patrascu (12)
- G. Martin Butz (12)
- Ruben Tobalina (11)
- Nicolas Dermine (10)
- Daria Szatan (9)
- Ole Erik Yrvin (8)
- Paulo Chiliguano (7)
- Jan Lund (7)
- Tiago Morais Morgado (7)
- Berkin Kadiroğlu (7)
- Олексій Овдієнко (6)
- Matthieu Ottaviani (6)
- Mahmutcan İlhandağ (6)
- Keiko Machiya (6)
- Daniele Paradiso (6)
- Hannes Fritz (5)
- Hayato Osanai (5)
- Marco Giordano (4)
- Servaas Tilkin (4)
- Diego Gurnari (4)
- Thomas G. Kristensen (4)
- Francisco Llaryora (4)
- Miroslav Hrabal (4)
- artyomisflash@mail.ru (4)
- Martin Zeilinger (3)
- Yang Wanjun (3)
- Surajnath Sidh (3)
- Michel Echevres (3)
- Madis Liias (3)
- Moisés Cachay Tello (3)
- Hou Chen Zhong (3)
- Andreas Linz (3)
- Tuomas Pyylampi (3)
- Juhyun Lee (3)
- 442416294@qq.com (3)
- Tasos Protopapas (3)
- Raúl Jiménez Martín (3)
- Alban Vidal (3)
- Sander Kesting (3)
- Ettore Atalan (2)
- Haowen You (2)
- Fabian Aussems (2)
- Samuel El-Borai (2)
- Dimitris Panokostas (2)
- Brujo Rojas (2)
- André Sá (2)
- Szymon Jakubiak (2)
- Sebastien van der Kwast (2)
- Vincent Renard (2)
- Anders Berggren (2)
- Serge Stinckwich (2)
- Rodrigo Muniz (2)
- Giovanni Domeneghini (2)
- Luis Lloret (2)
- Nathan Van der Auwera (2)
- Ivan Decard (2)
- Rodrigo Iglesias (2)
- Duarte Botelho (2)
- Sebastian Stahn (2)
- Björn Ekström (2)
- Franz Laügt (2)
- Joek van Montfort (1)
- Enrike Hurtado (1)
- wilson.dashing@gmail.com (1)
- Davide Giovannini (1)
- Vladimir Knyazev (1)
- Sugahara Masayuki (1)
- Rafael Capaci Pereira (1)
- Peter Bolch (1)
- Louis Wolf (1)
- ladyalgo@outlook.com (1)
- Hyemin Shim (1)
- Hrafnkell Eiríksson (1)
- Ingrid Yrvin (1)
- Jesper Juellund Jensen (1)
- Filip Faste (1)
- Jose Añasco (1)
- Martin-Zack Mekkaoui (1)
- Mattias Roos (1)
- Microgamer (1)
- Mikkel Gravgaard (1)
- Nadezhda Ratckevich (1)
- Paulo Amaral (1)
- Kurushina Margarita (1)
- Rogério Pimentel (1)
- Eugene Kovalev (1)
- Andras Nemeth (1)
- Huiting Milewski (1)
- Ivan Krylov (1)
- Gabriel Macedo (1)
- Fernando Alberto Ribeiro Tavar (1)
- Feodor Aleksandrov (1)
- Evgeni Latuhin (1)
- Elena Ogaderova (1)
- Matthias Cavigelli (1)
- Christoph B. Wurzinger (1)
- Cristian Cabrera (1)
- Иван Лавриков (1)
- Michael Fulton (1)
- Allan Nordhøy (1)
- Ethan Crawford (1)
- Mateusz Bielec (1)
- Tomasz Nurkiewicz (1)
- Xavier Riley (1)
The following is a far from complete list of some of the individuals who have provided inspiration for the creation of Sonic Pi through their own projects:
- _why (why the lucky stiff) - Shoes
- Andrew Sorensen - Extempore
- James McCartney - SuperCollider
- Jeff Rose - Overtone
- Linda Liukas - Hello Ruby
- Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto まつもとゆきひろ) - Ruby
- Rich Hickey - Clojure
- Seymour Papert - Logo
- The Scratch Team - Scratch
- Thor Magnusson - ixi lang
Sam Aaron would like to express his deep thanks to his family and friends who have supported him over the years and given him the strength to continue on this strange and often unforgiving path. He would particularly like to thank his friend and partner Susanna and also his fab Mum.
Luis Lloret wants to thank his wonderful family for their understanding and support while working on this. Specially Marina, you are my reason to live. Mar and Darío, keep being so special and giving us so much joy.
Xavier Riley would like to thank his wife Emily, and he'd like to reassure her that he definitely loves her more than any computer. Also big thanks to conference organizers, in particular Simon Starr for putting on the awesome Bath Ruby conferences and letting me rock out there not once, but twice. Lastly I'd like to thank Scott Wilson for teaching me some programming as part of a music degree, and my good friend David Bamber for helping me get started as a programmer.
Adrian Cheater dedicates this space in loving memory of his mother, Katherine Cheater, who shared her passion for music and performance while making available all the tools I needed to explore technology she didn't understand. She was renowned for her patience and sincere encouragement of all her piano students, and helped me to understand that failure is common and natural, and that effort eventually overcomes all obstacles. Her influence carries me in all my live coding adventures, and I hope these words help you to persevere in yours.