While working as a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University, Sam Aaron created a software tool called Sonic Pi that could compose music on the fly with just a few lines of simple programming.

Collectives in cities around the world are bringing computer languages to the club. By Luke Winkie On a computer, Sonic Pi looks like any other coding language. It’s a mess of numbers, parentheticals, ...

Sarah Davis, aka DJ_Dave. Sarah Davis, better known in the music community as DJ_Dave, has only been live coding music for about two years, but the skills have launched a career. That’s right — when ...