We are fifteen

Worldwide nonstop stream of around 168 performances over 84 hours, from 12:00, 14 Feb 2019 until 23:59:59 17 Feb 2019 (UTC, please click for your local times). Celebrating 15 years of the live coding community, first formed at the Changing Grammars symposium, 14th February 2004. We wrote this shortly after. Now there are bazillions of […]

TOPLAP 15th anniversary stream – 14-17th February 2019

Version en español First, a bit of history, then instructions and encouragement for contributing to the celebratory online livecode video stream! Back on 14th February 2003, late in a smoky bar in Hamburg, TOPLAP was formed by a bunch of artists and students who had found each other to explore the emerging idea of Live […]

Algorave Assembly

There’s been a flurry of algorave activity lately, time for an Algorave Assembly, 27th April 2018 in School of Music, University of Leeds. By day there’ll be free talks on livecoding visuals from Coral Manton, pattern by me (Alex Mclean), as well as a panel discussion and special lunctime performances from OFFAL and TYPE. Then […]

Algorave Pittsburgh

Join Us for the first official Algorave in Pittsburgh September 16th, 2017! Audio: Lil Data [PC Music, London] – One of the forces behind the future-pop music collective PC Music, Lil Data is a master of blending dance-friendly concepts with cerebrally coded complexity. Calum Gunn [Conditional, London] – Calum is a UK based musician and […]

Workshop: Introduction to Live Coding – LPM 2017 Amsterdam

Introduction to Live Coding | Filippo Guida [IT] May 20 -21 | 18:00 – 21:00 | HackLab A beginners introduction to live coding environments for music production: TidalCycles and SuperCollider.   1. Brief history of generative music and its aesthetical relations with live coding and others performing practices releated to software programming. Meanwhile, will be place an assisted installation […]

KodeLife

First time I heard about KodeLife was at LPM Roma in 2012, at 8am after a long night of performances, demoed by Hexler on his laptop, having a hectic conversation with a russian artist. It gave me inspiration to dive into the shader live-coding world! KodeLife is now released, cross-platform, and is a good starting point […]

Introducing ddwChucklib-livecode

ddwChucklib-livecode is an idiosyncratic approach to live-coding notation, built in SuperCollider. It’s loosely inspired by ixi-lang, with a couple of distinctions: explicit division of bars into beats, and “generator” expressions embedded within the notation. It interfaces with my chucklib object framework for composition, which automates resource management for musical processes. Several live-coding frameworks here play […]

Special issue of DANCECULT on algorithmic electronic dance music

Dancecult is an independent, peer-reviewed journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). As Dancecult is open access, you can download and read its archive of writing on EDMC going back to 2009. With increasing visibility of algorithms in dance music, it’s timely that the great Shelly Knotts and Nick Collins will be guest editors of […]

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