Looking at Music, an experiment with Kotlin, JavaFX, MIDI, and Virtual Threads
When a nerdy dad and music-playing son join forces and start experimenting with music and code, some nice things can happen. Did you ever present your music piece in a business dashboard with charts? Did you know that the FXGL game library can be used to generate a piano with fireworks? Let's look at music with the MelodyMatrix application (https://melodymatrix.rocks/) and guide you through the process of how a small experiment turned into a full-blown project.
This talk is not just about code but also features a live piano performance by a 14-year-old musician-coder. Let's have a battle between humans and machines! Who is the best piano player? The musician or a few thousand Virtual Threads? And how far can we push the app's performance to send ByteArrays to an LED strip to react to the music?
Topics in this talk: Java, Kotlin, JavaFX, Gradle, FXGL, MIDI, Vaadin, GitHub Actions, JDeploy,…