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! B5: an Artful Bloc API Designed for Creativity
B5 is a high level API for Bloc, a low-level UI infrastructure & framework for Pharo.
Its design inspired by Processing, a graphic library for media art built with the purpose of teaching non-programmers the fundamentals of computer programming in a visual context.

B5 brings those same principles to Pharo, following the spirit of Artful Design: it prioritizes immediacy, playfulness, and expressive simplicity over technical complexity.
Combined with Phausto, a package for sound generation and DSP porhramming, B5 turns Pharo into a friendly yet powerful environment for teaching and designing interactive audio-visual art, and for prototyping unusual and expressive user interfaces.

""Bio:""
Domenico Cipriani (a.k.a. Lucretio) has been producing raw minimalist dance music for over adecade.
Through various aliases and collaborations (most notably with Blawan and Objekt) he has released more than 100 vinyl records and performed at prominent clubs all over the world.
After graduating from the S.A.E. Institute in Barcelona, he earned an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Padova, specializing in social semiotics. In 2016, he began working with Symbolic
Sound’s Kyma system, participating regularly in the Kyma International Sound Symposium, where he explored the integration of Kyma with p5.js and network-distributed sound systems via Open
Sound Control.
In 2019, he presented an interactive performance based on distributed Open Sound Control at the Sonic Experiments festival at ZKM. He later performed at the Algorave hosted by ICLC24 in
Shanghai and at the closing event of ICLC25 in Barcelona.
He is currently a researcher in computer music with the Evref team at Inria, where he is the architect of Coyou and Phausto, two libraries for live coding and DSP programming in Pharo.
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