Sam Aaron
@samaaron.bsky.social
Live Coding Artist. Creator of Sonic Pi & Tau5, programmer, educator, musician, PhD, Sam 'transcends the present' - Rolling Stone. he/him bookings@sonic-pi.net
I've been busy hacking away on Tau5 - I'm still working hard laying the best foundations I can.
If you'd like to help me continue to work hard at full speed, please do consider supporting me on Patreon.
Every small donation helps more than you realise towards sustainability.
patreon.com/samaaron
If you'd like to help me continue to work hard at full speed, please do consider supporting me on Patreon.
Every small donation helps more than you realise towards sustainability.
patreon.com/samaaron
September 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I've been busy hacking away on Tau5 - I'm still working hard laying the best foundations I can.
If you'd like to help me continue to work hard at full speed, please do consider supporting me on Patreon.
Every small donation helps more than you realise towards sustainability.
patreon.com/samaaron
If you'd like to help me continue to work hard at full speed, please do consider supporting me on Patreon.
Every small donation helps more than you realise towards sustainability.
patreon.com/samaaron
Experimenting with tiled layouts for Tau5.
August 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Experimenting with tiled layouts for Tau5.
Tau5 will be a creative coding native/web platform for secure, event-driven, concurrent, hot-swappable, deterministic & precisely-timed distributed computation. Features include a native GUI, remote browser UI, LAN discovery/mesh, central server global sync & a sandboxed local MCP for AI.
tau5.live
tau5.live
August 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Tau5 will be a creative coding native/web platform for secure, event-driven, concurrent, hot-swappable, deterministic & precisely-timed distributed computation. Features include a native GUI, remote browser UI, LAN discovery/mesh, central server global sync & a sandboxed local MCP for AI.
tau5.live
tau5.live
The Tau5 boot screen...
August 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Tau5 boot screen...
Experimenting with a fun loading overlay for Tau5 using gratuitous GLSL shaders :-)
July 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Experimenting with a fun loading overlay for Tau5 using gratuitous GLSL shaders :-)
Tau5 just got vastly improved server debugging with a new Elixir console to the server and a powerful inspection dashboard.
July 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Tau5 just got vastly improved server debugging with a new Elixir console to the server and a powerful inspection dashboard.
Tau5 - now with web developer tools (the app is essentially a custom browser connected to an internal web server running on the BEAM VM).
The debug pane now lets you see what the BEAM is doing and also to see what the Chromium browser is doing. All in one compact view.
The debug pane now lets you see what the BEAM is doing and also to see what the Chromium browser is doing. All in one compact view.
July 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Tau5 - now with web developer tools (the app is essentially a custom browser connected to an internal web server running on the BEAM VM).
The debug pane now lets you see what the BEAM is doing and also to see what the Chromium browser is doing. All in one compact view.
The debug pane now lets you see what the BEAM is doing and also to see what the Chromium browser is doing. All in one compact view.
Just added a new dev log console for observing the BEAM VM running in the background.
The BEAM is Tau5’s brain and is where all the magic happens.
The Tau5 GUI is essentially a custom simplified browser.
The BEAM is Tau5’s brain and is where all the magic happens.
The Tau5 GUI is essentially a custom simplified browser.
July 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Just added a new dev log console for observing the BEAM VM running in the background.
The BEAM is Tau5’s brain and is where all the magic happens.
The Tau5 GUI is essentially a custom simplified browser.
The BEAM is Tau5’s brain and is where all the magic happens.
The Tau5 GUI is essentially a custom simplified browser.
Tau5 can now blend Hydra sketches.
July 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Tau5 can now blend Hydra sketches.
Yikes, I seem to have taught Tau5 to speak MIDI...
January 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Yikes, I seem to have taught Tau5 to speak MIDI...
Oops, I accidentally added @Ableton Link support to Tau5.
(Ableton Link is an open source technology that lets you effortlessly synchronise tempo with other Link-powered apps/hardware over the network.)
(Ableton Link is an open source technology that lets you effortlessly synchronise tempo with other Link-powered apps/hardware over the network.)
January 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Oops, I accidentally added @Ableton Link support to Tau5.
(Ableton Link is an open source technology that lets you effortlessly synchronise tempo with other Link-powered apps/hardware over the network.)
(Ableton Link is an open source technology that lets you effortlessly synchronise tempo with other Link-powered apps/hardware over the network.)
Tau5 now has support for auto-discovering other Tau5 nodes to jam with on the local network.
Here's me firing up a headless Tau5 node running on a Raspberry Pi and it immediately pops up on my Windows node.
I can even click the link and jump to operating the Pi node.
Here's me firing up a headless Tau5 node running on a Raspberry Pi and it immediately pops up on my Windows node.
I can even click the link and jump to operating the Pi node.
January 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Tau5 now has support for auto-discovering other Tau5 nodes to jam with on the local network.
Here's me firing up a headless Tau5 node running on a Raspberry Pi and it immediately pops up on my Windows node.
I can even click the link and jump to operating the Pi node.
Here's me firing up a headless Tau5 node running on a Raspberry Pi and it immediately pops up on my Windows node.
I can even click the link and jump to operating the Pi node.
New live coding studio vibes.
November 28, 2024 at 10:42 PM
New live coding studio vibes.
Finally getting my synths set up again in my new live coding studio.
November 23, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Finally getting my synths set up again in my new live coding studio.
Are you ready to learn how to code music with Sonic Pi?
sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-i...
sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-i...
November 20, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Are you ready to learn how to code music with Sonic Pi?
sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-i...
sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-i...
Yesterday afternoon's bike ride was pretty special.
November 12, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Yesterday afternoon's bike ride was pretty special.
Our home was in desperate need of new everything - new insulation, new plaster, new heating, new windows, new joists, new electrics....
November 11, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Our home was in desperate need of new everything - new insulation, new plaster, new heating, new windows, new joists, new electrics....
Really excited to be heading to New York to introduce my recent work on Tau5 at Code BEAM Lite NYC.
I'll be sharing my latest work & ideas combining live coding, art & education using the incredible power of BEAM technologies (Elixir, Luerl and Erlang).
It's going to be fun!
codebeamnyc.com
I'll be sharing my latest work & ideas combining live coding, art & education using the incredible power of BEAM technologies (Elixir, Luerl and Erlang).
It's going to be fun!
codebeamnyc.com
October 23, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Really excited to be heading to New York to introduce my recent work on Tau5 at Code BEAM Lite NYC.
I'll be sharing my latest work & ideas combining live coding, art & education using the incredible power of BEAM technologies (Elixir, Luerl and Erlang).
It's going to be fun!
codebeamnyc.com
I'll be sharing my latest work & ideas combining live coding, art & education using the incredible power of BEAM technologies (Elixir, Luerl and Erlang).
It's going to be fun!
codebeamnyc.com
What if you could dynamically resize the Tau5 editor containing its own Hydra sketch as a background?
October 11, 2024 at 8:01 AM
What if you could dynamically resize the Tau5 editor containing its own Hydra sketch as a background?
Tau5 now lets you live code the Hydra sketch.
October 9, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Tau5 now lets you live code the Hydra sketch.
Getting ready to start recording some new content.
September 30, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Getting ready to start recording some new content.