Sound Garden Manifesto ⤴

Reflections on guiding principles of LiveCore (née Sound Garden)

• Sound Garden never meant to be a product, a thing by itself. It's a by-product of the creative journey.

• Creativity blossoms without limit when put in consciously defined constraints. Self-posed restrictions are what helps to maintain focus and embody art artifacts.

• Sound Garden's leitmotif constraint is doing everything live and in real-time. If your sound graph can’t be computed sample by sample for each channel in real-time, then drop it and find a new one. This does not prevent performance optimizations of the platform, rather contrary it encourages them.

• Don't be afraid to be naive, you are exploring a mysterious landscape.

• True understanding comes as the ability to re-create subject from scratch. With own style.

• Style is constraints working for you.

• This document is just a reflection of Sound Garden spirit and practices, no way it's primary to them. The manifesto is living and is to be updated whenever it needs to be.