Raspberry Pi Hardware & A Lisp Brain (with Dimitris Kyriakoudis)

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Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 35 min

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Episode description

Dimitris Kyriakoudis is a researcher, programmer and musician who's combining all three talents to build dedicated music hardware. Specifically a device called the µseq, which reads Lisp programs and uses them to drive synthesizers to make music. In this episode we go through the full platform that he's building, from soldering resistors to an RPi chip, up through writing a Lisp interpreter, to the design ideas that make Lisp a good choice for composing both software and music.

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uSeq Homepage: https://www.emutelabinstruments.co.uk/useq/

Emute Lab’s Homepage: https://www.emutelab.org/

Buy a uSeq: https://www.signalsounds.com/emute-lab-instruments-useq-live-coding-voltage-generator-eurorack-module/

Build a uSeq (DIY Kit): https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/emute-lab-useq/

SICP (book): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs

Machina Bristronica (expo): https://machinabristronica.uk/

Sonic Pi: https://sonic-pi.net/

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