79: Collaborative Music in LiveView with Nathan Willson
Nathan Willson talks about creating GEMS, his globally distributed, collaboratively edited, matrix sequencing audio application! He shows us how LiveView can do more than you might think!
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Show Notes
We talk with Nathan Willson about GEMS, his collaborative music generator written in LiveView. He explains how it's built, the JS sound library integrations, what could be done by Phoenix and what is done in the browser. Nathan shares how he deployed it globally to 10 regions using Fly.io. We go over some of the challenges he overcame creating an audio focused web application. It's a fun open-source project that pushes the boundaries of what we think LiveView apps can do!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/79
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Discussion Resources
- https://twitter.com/nathanwillson/status/1466389153503866892
- https://gems.nathanwillson.com/ – Play with it online
- https://github.com/nbw/gems – Source code
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto
- https://tonejs.github.io/
- https://webassembly.org/ – WASM
- https://www.ableton.com/en/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI
- https://webaudio.github.io/web-midi-api/
- https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-human-ear-half-millisecond.html – The human ear detects a half-millisecond delay in sound
- https://fly.io/docs/reference/regions/ – The set of global regions that Fly.io supports
- https://github.com/bitwalker/libcluster
- https://twitter.com/gotbones – Bitwalker on Twitter
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/pg.html
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/nathanwillson – on Twitter
- https://github.com/nbw/ – on Github
- https://nathanwillson.com – Blog
- https://gems.nathanwillson.com – GEMS project running online
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