We would like to express our sincerest thanks and gratitude to everyone that has helped with either the development of Sonic Pi or supported its use in any capacity. On its own Sonic Pi is just a piece of software. Only when combined with our kind and generous community does it become a powerful tool for sharing and celebrating the creativity of code. Thank-you everyone.
The start of any project is a fragile period which relies heavily on the generous support of others. We would like to offer our considered gratitude to the following people who provided support in the early days of Sonic Pi with their time, advice, and wisdom:
- Carrie Anne Philbin
- Robert Mullins
- Alex Bradbury
- Alan Blackwell
- Rachel Drury
- Juneau Projects
- Stephan Lachowsky
The following organisations have kindly contributed to Sonic Pi:
- The Raspberry Pi Foundation
- The Broadcom Foundation
- The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
- Arts Council England
- Nesta
- pi-top
We would like to recognise the following individuals for their important contributions which have supported the Sonic Pi Community:
Much of the development, distribution and support work for Sonic Pi is carried out by the Core Team. This is a group of dedicated volunteers (with the exception of Sam Aaron who works full time on the project) who kindly donate their time to continue to improve Sonic Pi.
Current members:
Previous members:
In addition to the Sonic Pi Core Team, we would like to extend our thanks to the following developers who have donated their time and effort to help grow and improve the Sonic Pi code base:
- Sam Aaron (3872)
- Joseph Wilk (159)
- Ethan Crawford (136)
- Hanno Zulla (127)
- Jeremy Weatherford (127)
- Xavier Riley (88)
- Adrian Cheater (70)
- Martin Keegan (47)
- Nicolas Dermine (35)
- Luis Lloret (27)
- Robin Newman (25)
- Łukasz Siwiński (13)
- Clare Macrae (7)
- Jeroen Castelein (6)
- Kenichi Kanai (5)
- Emlyn Corrin (5)
- Petter Reinholdtsen (3)
- Mariano Guerra (3)
- Katie Miller (3)
- Chris Ford (3)
- Steve Traylen (3)
- Mark Paton (3)
- Sebastien Rannou (3)
- Michael Henry (2)
- Will Stephenson (2)
- Franz Laügt (2)
- Phil Hagelberg (2)
- Daniel Canelhas (2)
- Bruce Adams (2)
- Louis Pilfold (2)
- Scott Kitterman (2)
- Mistral Contrastin (2)
- Ben Nuttall (2)
- Nigel Michki (1)
- Björn Ekström (1)
- Brujo Rojas (1)
- Christoph B. Wurzinger (1)
- Adlai (1)
- Alex McLean (1)
- Christian Perfect (1)
- Cosmin Stroe (1)
- Eugene Kovalev (1)
- Graham Taylor (1)
- Ivan Zarea (1)
- James Smith (1)
- James Watson (1)
- Joseph Haig (1)
- John Lawrence Aspden (1)
- Karl Hiner (1)
- Michel Kraaijeveld (1)
- Marko Peltola (1)
- Michał Lewandowski (1)
- Morgan Owens (1)
- Neal McBurnett (1)
- Jose Añasco (1)
- Pierre De Wilde (1)
- Piotr Jagielski (1)
- Roland Schmid (1)
- Roman Milovskiy (1)
- Russell Jones (1)
- Ruzsa Balázs (1)
- Ryan Bigg (1)
- Sandy Maguire (1)
- Siim Põder (1)
- Tom den Braber (1)
- Tomek Rabczak (1)
- Veith Roethlingshoefer (1)
- Sebastian Stahn (1)
- Enrike Hurtado (1)
- Linda van der Pal (1)
- Paul Winstanley (1)
- Tom Holford (1)
- Aspasia Beneti (1)
The following volunteers have generously helped to translate Sonic Pi into additional languages:
- Łukasz Siwiński (106)
- Hanno Zulla (106)
- Kenichi Kanai (81)
- Nico Staelens (65)
- Sam Aaron (30)
- Federico Pepe (27)
- Ricardo Pozo (23)
- Giovanni Mori (17)
- Petter Reinholdtsen (16)
- Wolfgang Werner (14)
- Mircea Patrascu (12)
- Ruben Tobalina (11)
- G. Martin Butz (11)
- Nicolas Dermine (10)
- Daria Szatan (9)
- Ole Erik Yrvin (8)
- Paulo Chiliguano (7)
- Jan Lund (7)
- Berkin Kadiroğlu (7)
- Олексій Овдієнко (6)
- Mahmutcan İlhandağ (6)
- Matthieu Ottaviani (6)
- Keiko Machiya (6)
- Hannes Fritz (5)
- Francisco Llaryora (4)
- Servaas Tilkin (4)
- Miroslav Hrabal (4)
- Thomas G. Kristensen (4)
- artyomisflash @ mail.ru (4)
- Marco Giordano (4)
- Tuomas Pyylampi (3)
- Tasos Protopapas (3)
- Yang Wanjun (3)
- Madis Liias (3)
- Juhyun Lee (3)
- Surajnath Sidh (3)
- Michel Echevres (3)
- Diego Gurnari (3)
- Martin Zeilinger (3)
- Raúl Jiménez Martín (3)
- Sander Kesting (3)
- Andreas Linz (3)
- Vincent Renard (2)
- Szymon Jakubiak (2)
- Brujo Rojas (2)
- André Sá (2)
- Sebastian Stahn (2)
- Sebastien van der Kwast (2)
- Rodrigo Iglesias (2)
- Serge Stinckwich (2)
- Rodrigo Muniz (2)
- Giovanni Domeneghini (2)
- Duarte Botelho (2)
- Haowen You (2)
- Ettore Atalan (2)
- Fabian Aussems (2)
- Luis Lloret (2)
- Björn Ekström (2)
- Anders Berggren (2)
- Nathan Van der Auwera (2)
- Dimitris Panokostas (2)
- Franz Laügt (2)
- Daniele Paradiso (1)
- Ivan Krylov (1)
- Kurushina Margarita (1)
- Peter Bolch (1)
- Rafael Capaci Pereira (1)
- Sugahara Masayuki (1)
- Eugene Kovalev (1)
- Andras Nemeth (1)
- Huiting Milewski (1)
- Feodor Aleksandrov (1)
- Ingrid Yrvin (1)
- Jesper Juellund Jensen (1)
- Joek van Montfort (1)
- Jose Añasco (1)
- Rogério Pimentel (1)
- Hrafnkell Eiríksson (1)
- Martin-Zack Mekkaoui (1)
- Mattias Roos (1)
- Microgamer (1)
- Mikkel Gravgaard (1)
- Nadezhda Ratckevich (1)
- Cristian Cabrera (1)
- Paulo Amaral (1)
- Hyemin Shim (1)
- Gabriel Macedo (1)
- Иван Лавриков (1)
- Filip Faste (1)
- Vladimir Knyazev (1)
- Matthias Cavigelli (1)
- Christoph B. Wurzinger (1)
- Davide Giovannini (1)
- Enrike Hurtado (1)
- Michael Fulton (1)
- Allan Nordhøy (1)
- Ethan Crawford (1)
- Mateusz Bielec (1)
- Tomasz Nurkiewicz (1)
- Xavier Riley (1)
The following is a far from complete list of some of the individuals who have provided inspiration for the creation of Sonic Pi through their own projects:
- _why (why the lucky stiff) - Shoes
- Andrew Sorensen - Extempore
- James McCartney - SuperCollider
- Jeff Rose - Overtone
- Linda Liukas - Hello Ruby
- Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto まつもとゆきひろ) - Ruby
- Rich Hickey - Clojure
- Seymour Papert - Logo
- The Scratch Team - Scratch
- Thor Magnusson - ixi lang
Sam Aaron would like to express his deep thanks to his family and friends who have supported him over the years and given him the strength to continue on this strange and often unforgiving path. He would particularly like to thank his friend and partner Susanna and also his fab Mum.
Luis Lloret wants to thank his wonderful family for their understanding and support while working on this. Specially Marina, you are my reason to live. Mar and Darío, keep being so special and giving us so much joy.
Xavier Riley would like to thank his wife Emily, and he'd like to reassure her that he definitely loves her more than any computer. Also big thanks to conference organizers, in particular Simon Starr for putting on the awesome Bath Ruby conferences and letting me rock out there not once, but twice. Lastly I'd like to thank Scott Wilson for teaching me some programming as part of a music degree, and my good friend David Bamber for helping me get started as a programmer.
Adrian Cheater dedicates this space in loving memory of his mother, Katherine Cheater, who shared her passion for music and performance while making available all the tools I needed to explore technology she didn't understand. She was renowned for her patience and sincere encouragement of all her piano students, and helped me to understand that failure is common and natural, and that effort eventually overcomes all obstacles. Her influence carries me in all my live coding adventures, and I hope these words help you to persevere in yours.