I personally believe that Overtone is a worthwhile project. Whilst I totally want to see more projects that help us at least maintain and ideally improve the harmony of the world, I also value projects that dare to take us in new directions.
With Overtone, I'm attempting to ask the question "can we enrich the way we communicate?". Live Coding with Overtone, for me at least, is a new way for me to communicate (via sounds) parts of me that words struggle to represent. Sure, I bet I could do a much richer job with a traditional musical instrument. However, by opening up a window to the music world for programmers, I'm hopefully broadening the number of people (including myself) that will be able to communicate in this way. Also, I'm driven by the idea that using programming languages as musical interfaces can take us to extraordinary places that traditional instruments can't currently reach. To me at least, this is a worthwhile endeavour. Sam --- http://sam.aaron.name On 20 Dec 2013, at 20:01, Rich Morin <r...@cfcl.com> wrote: > My initial attempts at finding an article failed, so I didn't list one > on my initial posting. However, but it turns out that Tim O'Reilly has > a blog entry (from early 2009) on this topic: > > Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles > http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-fir.html > > FYI, his major points are: > > Work on something that matters to you more than money. > > Create more value than you capture. > > Take the long view. > > -r > > -- > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin r...@cfcl.com > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume San Bruno, CA, USA +1 650-873-7841 > > Software system design, development, and documentation > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
