"Birdsong as code" by Chris Ford (Strange Loop 2023)

Such a great demonstration of curiosity

Sublime.

Favorite talk from StrangeLoop, the jam session at the end was great fun

Being so respectful of birds, treating their "song" as music, where in fact it may be actual language (with modulation and rhythm encoding real meaning), analogous to earlier Westerners "thinking" tone languages are actually song.

Wow, I'm really glad I stuck around till the very end.

This talk resonated with me on an exponential scale. Brilliant!

His code theme look like on a 1 bit screen.

❤❤I teared up a little at the end. The wholesomeness and scify epic of making music together with the rest of your ecosystems animals. Human potential is deeper than species boundaries ❤

Very cool talk and jam, thanks!

Also: Clojure and a reference to Steve Reich's Different Trains? Nice touches ;)

Ironically, the nearly half-started language I made when following the Crafting Interpreters tutorial on making your own programming language was called "BirdSong" because I childishly found it entertaining to be able to say "I wrote a bunch of BS."

way cool