Sound on BEAM: Music in the Land of Distributed Lisp

While not built for sound or digital signal processing, Erlang excels in the realm where music control systems have converged: network message-passing. In this talk, Duncan will provide some brief background and share previous related sound-generation work on the BEAM, then cover a recent effort in Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE) to integrate with well-established improvisational tools and music recording systems. Full use of LFE/OTP behaviours and supervision trees will be covered, as well as application start phases for synchronizing system startup. In addition, LFE's strength as a platform for creating DSL's will be covered in the dual context of integrating with multiple systems and creating generative music.