festival weekendFull props to the organisers, that was an incredible, difficult-to-summarise live.code.festival of great people, food, beer, slides, and of course presentations and dizzying variety of excellent performances. As David put it over on the livecode list, “I’m sure I’m not the only one who looks forward to seeing how the energy and exchange of […]
There’s a lot of buzz around overtone at the moment, a live coding language/environment built on Clojure and the SuperCollider server. The overtone project was started around 2009 by Jeff Rose, joined by Sam Aaron who worked on it full time for a year as part of a principled research project at the University of Cambridge. […]
Every self-respecting university music department now has a laptop orchestra, or similar form of LIve GRoup COmputer Performance (LIGROCOP) activity. Many of them are primarily live coding outfits, including Benoit and the Mandelbrots in Karlsruhe DE, HELO in Huddersfield UK, the Cybernetic Orchestra in Hamilton CA, BEER in Birmingham UK and of course the venerable PLOrk […]
Happy new year! In the UK, 2012 was the year of the Raspberry Pi, a cheap hardware contribution to the aims of the new push to get proper curriculum for computing at school. This has already been a huge success, with community springing up to develop Linux distributions and software both for children and other […]
The Psychology of Programming Interest Group is an international group of researchers interested in the Psychology of Programming. This much you might have guessed from the name, but this is an cross-disciplinary group of researchers in from fields such as human-computer interaction, computing education, psychology, and visual programming languages among others. They hold their annual […]
The People VS The Machine took place on Saturday 3rd November at Fixxion Warehouse Project in Wolverhampton (UK) as part of Flip Festival 2012. The event saw three digital artists and two illustration artists battle to create digitally-inspired live visual art, set to a backdrop of electronic music. The artwork was created as an exploration of the […]
Acme is a programmers’ text editor from the Plan 9 operating system. It was developed in the early 1990s by Rob Pike, although is now ported to FreeBSD, Linux and Mac OS X. Here’s a fascinating video tour by Russ Cox: You’ll have to watch the video to get some of the incredibly open features […]
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TOPLAP is an organisation founded in 2004, to explore and promote live coding. Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is getting somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. Live coding works across musical genres, […]
Like Gibber, livecodelab is web browser based, but is more focussed on live coding of video, although audio is also possible. It is accessible not only because it runs in the browser — it also has a simple grammar, and great range of examples. Also if you’re feeling lazy, you can check out the “autocode” […]
