Andrew Sorensen "The Concert Programmer"
From OSCON 2014: Is it possible to imagine a future where "concert programmers" are as common a fixture in the worlds auditoriums as concert pianists? In this presentation Andrew will be live-coding the generative algorithms that will be producing the music that the audience will be listening too.
Andrew Sorensen is an artist-programmer, whose interests lie at the intersection of computer science and creative practice. Andrew is well known for creating the programming languages that he uses in live performance to generate improvised audiovisual theatre. Andrew has performed around the world, and is the author of the Impromptu and Extempore programming language environments.