soledad penadés

That is the title of the talk I gave yesterday at Full Frontal in Brighton. The video is still not out but here are the slides (and the source for the slides, with all the source for the examples).

If you were in my Web Audio workshop in Berlin, this talk followed the same style, except I refined some points and sadly forgot a couple. I also showed the Web Audio Editor in Firefox DevTools, which I didn't in Berlin because Jordan was going to talk about it after me.

I had a little bit of a surprise at the end of the talk, when I "presented" for the first time a little project we've been working on for a while: OpenMusic. And I have "quoted" the presented word because the work has always been in GitHub in the open, so if you followed me in GitHub you might have seen all the repos popping up and wonder what the hell is Sole doing lately.

So, just in case you weren't in the conference, OpenMusic aims to be a nice collection of interoperable/reusable Web Audio modules and components. This is an idea that Angelina sort of had when they saw my audio tags talk last year, and has been brewing in the back of our minds until a couple of months ago when the A-HA! moment finally happened.

And so I've been pulling apart components and pieces from my existing Web Audio-based code, because I realised I was doing the same thing over and over and I wanted to do new things but I didn't want to do the same thing yet again. So, small npm based modules it is. And a bunch of them!

I'm a bit short on time lately (and I'm being very generous on this description), so some of the modules are a bit too rushed and a tad obscure, but they should work and have some minimal documentation already, and they'll get better. Be kind while I deconstruct my hacks--or better yet, start deconstructing yours too! =)

Thanks to Remy for inviting me to this ultra cool conference... and accidentally triggering the A-HA moment!