Extempore developments and new tutorials

The Extempore livecoding environment is emerging from a two year development, and according to its creator Andrew Sorensen, is now … More

Live coding on the Raspberry Pi

Happy new year! In the UK, 2012 was the year of the Raspberry Pi, a cheap hardware contribution to … More

Acme is a programmers’ text editor from the Plan 9 operating system. It was developed in the early 1990s by … More

Programmers working in the functional style often like to avoid writing functions which have any side-effects beyond returning a value. … More

It’s time to coin the phrase no-input live coding. First the context — a no-input mixing board is a mixer that’s … More

Continuing the rush to browser-based live coding, the sonic, abstract live coding puzzle TOPLAPapp by the mysterious Click Nilson now runs in … More

I think “Otomata” by Batuhan Bozkurt is lovely and it sounds lovely. It works a tiny bit like AlJazari in that there are … More

Bret Victor has another insightful essay up about “learnable coding”, which he says is an “immune response” to people saying … More

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/40971142] Live coding can feel like a practice in a perpetual state of becoming, sometimes unsure of where it … More

Although not often used for music or video, commandlines are a special kind of live coding environment, and Xiki is a … More