It was inevitable that somebody would do it but leave it to the fine folks at WIRE and the SuperCollider community to curate a call for musical works generated with less than 140 characters of code. Much like Tiny Sketch, SuperCollider 140 (sc140) is a succinct showcase of how more can be done with less. An excerpt from a statement describing the project posted by the WIRE camp:
It started as a curious project, when live coding enthusiast and Toplap member Dan Stowell started tweeting tiny snippets of musical code using SuperCollider. Pleasantly surprised by the reaction, and "not wanting this stuff to vanish into the ether" he has recently collated the best pieces into a special download for The Wire's online readership. Many of these pieces are actually generative, so if you re-run the source code (the track titles) you get a new piece of music.
The resulting compilation is fun and exploratory, repeated listening of the pieces reveals a surprising amount of depth (given the stiff constraints).
SuperCollider 140 contains contributions by: Nathaniel Virgo, LFSaw, Tim Walters, Batuhan Bozkurt, Thor Magnusson, Charlie Hoistman, MCLD, Julian Rohrhuber, Jose Padovani, Jason Dixon, redFrik, Sciss and Andrea Valle.
Download the compilation here [also note the sourcecode].
