Sound Garden Manifesto ⤴
Reflections on guiding principles of LiveCore (née Sound Garden)
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Sound Garden never meant to be a product, a thing by itself. It's a by-product of the creative journey.
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Creativity blossoms without limit when put in consciously defined constraints. Self-posed restrictions are what helps to maintain focus and embody art artifacts.
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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.
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Don't be afraid to be naive, you are exploring a mysterious landscape.
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True understanding comes as the ability to re-create subject from scratch. With own style.
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Style is constraints working for you.
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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.