[hecanjog]

Computer music is as old as computers, live coding is pretty old too. (I posted this in the strudel discussion too: https://toplap.org/wiki/HistoricalPerformances) Maybe everyone doing live streams during the pandemic helped get visibility for live coding? It's interesting to see it kind of becoming popular now.

[baq]

classic overnight success 20 years in the making. many such cases.

I must say the narrated trance piece by switch angel blew me socks right off, to me feels like this should be a genre in itself.

[vidarh]

And simpler generative music significantly predates computers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel