The OSCON Proposal I really, really want to be accepted
Open Ears, Open Mind, Open Mouth. Music Making Made Easy
Blurb
Our bodies are the most versatile and sophisticated musical instrument we know. From the complexities of making at beat with our hands and feet to the surprising simplicity of harmony singing, we are all of us musicians.
Abstract
Musicmaking isn’t some kind of sophisticated profession that requires the intervention of gatekeepers and techno priests. You don’t need autotune, you don’t need a record label, you don’t need drums, a guitar or anything else but your hands, feet, ears, brain and mouth to make music that will satisfy you for the rest of your life.
By the end of this talk I promise that, unless you are one of a tiny, tiny minority of people, you’ll not be tone deaf, you’ll be damn near pitch perfect. And you’ll have a song in your head that, unless I have seriously misjudged the people who come to OSCON, you’ll want to teach to everyone you know.
Come along. Clap your hands. Stamp your feet and sing. What have you got to lose?
London.pm Presentation Video
Back in (crikey) February, I gave a talk at the London Perl Mongers’ technical meeting about Moose for Ruby Programmers and wrote it up here. Mike Whittaker was in the front row of the audience with his iPhone and, a couple of minutes in, started a voice recording and gave me a copy.
So… finally… I’ve taken the time I should have been using to write another article for The H and wrestled the slides and the audio into something like sync and uploaded the results to Vimeo for your viewing pleasure.
An introduction to MooseX::Declare from Piers Cawley on Vimeo.
