Useful links

This is a random list of links that I find interesting. Feel free to comment and/or suggest other links. You won’t find links to closed software or to software which make use of closed frameworks/libraries/languages.

  • PLUM: list of programming languages used for music (most of them are old)
  • A reasoned list of music installations updated at 2007
  • TOPLAP : the home of live coding
  • A very nice repository of various computational musicology tools
  • ORCA : programming language for live-coding: be fast, don’t mind if it is unreadable for others.
  • Ajax sound studio : have fun with artistic sound synthesis and processing in python
  • How OpenType fonts work (i.e. a case study about how free market fucks up technology)
  • Don’t bother your computer nerd friend because your computer isn’t working. Check this instead.
  • A wonderful collection of ImageMagick scripts
  • Framasoft : French no-profit association
  • Riseup : US no-profit association
  • Disroot : Netherland no-profit association
  • List of secure and privacy respecting chats
  • List of alternative tools to free yourself from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and co.
  • e-foundation : no-profit who develops a usable Google-free Android OS
  • Mozilla : probably, the biggest no-profit in the computer world: develops computer technologies focused on web, especially the Firefox browser, the Rust language, and the Thunderbird mail client
  • LiChess : no-profit organization to play chess