Nest 'dem loops (JS Party #52)

NESTED LOOPS is a JavaScript band that combines music and video with web tech to perform live at JSConf. In this episode, Jerod and Suz are joined by Jan Monschke and Kahlil Lechelt, which comprise 2/3 of the group.

After sampling one of their tracks, we hear the story of how they got the band together, the journey of building a tech stack for their first live performance, and how that stack was then rewritten to be “good” for their second performance. Suz is at awe with the technologies at play. Jerod wonders if there’s room in the world for musicians directly targeting JavaScript devs. A good time is had by all.

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Featuring:

• Kahlil Lechelt – Website, GitHub, X
• Jan Monschke – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Listen to NESTED LOOPS on SoundCloud
• But seriously, you want to see these performances for yourself: 2015, 2017, 2018
• People Got Mad JavaScript is the track we sampled on the show
• Jan met Kahlil after watching this YouTube video
• The bits and bobs they build to pull this together are all open source
• The style was inspired by Mark Ronson’s Ted Talk
• Kahlil wrote it all up on Medium awhile back
• They also did a talk at JSConf about the technical details
• You can support the band by buying their merch
• Check out Loop Drop for live electronic music performance
• Jan suggests Ableton for getting started making music
• Also Web Audio School for making music on the web
• Looking for some community? There’s a Web Audio Slack

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!