sonic-sketches

Studies in Overtone and Clojure (and CIDER and Lein).

From that Wikipedia:

Studies are often used to understand the problems involved in rendering subjects and to plan the elements to be used in finished works, such as light, color, form, perspective and composition.

This is a repository to house my attempts to better understand the problems involved in:

• Overtone, and programming music in general
• Clojure, its libraries and idioms
• CIDER, and being productive in Clojure from within Emacs
• Leiningen, and the ecosystem around Clojure on the JVM
• core.async, and Communicating Sequential Processes

The final form of this project is the @sonic_sketches Twitter bot. Each day at 9 am NYC time, the program is run. The program takes weather data from the Forecast API and uses it and a Random Number Generator to generate a song, which is then uploaded to Twitter.

Along with the above stated goals, the project is also an exercise in productionizing the above process with:

• AWS CodeDeploy for Continuous Delivery
• AWS CloudFormation for automating the infrastructure
• Vagrant for creating a reproducible development environment
• The AWS ecosystem, generally
• FFmpeg for handling multimedia files