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ADC Bristol - 9th - 11th November
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Keynote: How Many Heads Do You Need? - Lu Wilson - ADC 2025
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Jam-oriented programming' is the joke name of a new style of audio development that is no joke at all. It adopts the practices and mentalities of an informal jam session to an extreme extent.
In a typical jam, there is no one in charge and anyone can make any sound they want at any time they choose. In jam-oriented programming, it's the same. Anyone can add, edit or delete code without any permission. Everyone is admin, nothing is certain and anything can happen. It sounds like chaos and it is. But it's also surprisingly successful, with entire audio tools appearing overnight out of the multi-headed process and even a published academic paper to accompany it all.
How and why is this even possible? And what does it tell us about the way we collaborate as audio developers?
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Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/2025/how-many-heads-do-you-need.pdf
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Lu Wilson
Lu Wilson is a creative technologist from London with a background in teaching. They make slightly surreal short films about their projects, often with heavy use of recursion. Their other creations include the satirical language Dreamberd, the experimental online gallery Torn Leaf, and the time-travelling sound-looping tool Arroost. More recently, Lu has become heavily involved as an organiser in London's electronic music scene, participating in the creation of numerous experimental audio tools with the infamous and international collective known as ""pastagang"".
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Special thanks to the ADC25 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
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Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
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Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra
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