A Tour of the Eighth Floor: Livecoding Music with Fennel and Renoise

Python

Explore the innovative livecoding music tool, The Eighth Floor, which combines Fennel and Renoise to generate music in real-time. Learn how sequences, combinators, and macros work together to create music for a variety of styles and live performances.

Key takeaways

Fennel is a LISP that compiles into Lua.
Renoise is a tracker-based music software.
The Eighth Floor is a live coding music tool that uses Fennel and Renoise.
It’s designed for live performance and uses sequences and combinators to generate music.
Sequences are functions that return the next value every time they’re called.
Combinators take sequences as input and produce sequences of strings.
The Eighth Floor has a syntax designed to match Renoise’s.
Macros can be written to rewrite code.
The tool is used for live coding, where the user interacts with the code in real-time.
It’s designed to be used with a projector to display the code and output music.
The user can control the music by typing into the code.
The Eighth Floor has been used for live coding performances.
Fennel’s syntax is consistent and readable.
Lua scripting API is used to access Renoise’s functionality.
Renoise has coroutines and is designed for live performance.
The Eighth Floor can be used to generate music for Renoise.
The user can control the music’s volume, pitch, and other parameters.
The Eighth Floor uses sequences and combinators to generate music.
Renoise is used to play back the generated music.
The Eighth Floor can be used to create music in a variety of styles.

A Tour of the Eighth Floor: Livecoding Music with Fennel and Renoise

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