<p>Can you make music with Scala? The answer is yes, and I’ll show you how. As a former professional musician now re-purposed as a Scala developer, I have used functional programming fundamentals to model music and create a simple music sequencer.</p>

<p>The presentation will walk through how and why I made modelling decisions to represent musical properties and events, and I’ll construct and play a song from scratch using single-note samples of my voice.</p>

<p>The talk is aimed at Scala and FP beginners and/or any fans of digital music creation and production and is designed as a fun introduction to ADT usage in modelling real-life data.</p>

<p><em>Topics covered:</em></p>
<ul>
  <li>How I have chosen to model musical elements and properties.</li>
  <li>How algebraic data types and structural recursion have been used to create a simple idiomatic music DSL.</li>
  <li>Arranging and playing a simple monophonic musical sequence.</li>
  <li>Composing and playing a whole song.</li>
</ul>