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TOPLAP20 Celebration: Feb 23 – 25TOPLAP was founded 20 years ago February 14th, 2004 at the end of the Changing Grammars symposium. We’re having a celebration with an online Meetup and…
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ICLC 2024 – ShanghaiThere’s some days to get your applications in for the International Conference on Live Coding 2024, taking place in Shanghai! As with last year, as…
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Call for hosts: International Conference on Live Coding 2024We are happy to announce a call for hosts for the International Conference on Live Coding 2024. We welcome both traditional and radical proposals for…
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Online talk – Vernelle Noel: The algorithm of wire bendingCraft practices, knowledges, and communities are disappearing. These practices carry with them histories and cultures of people, knowledges, and social ties to communities. One of…
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𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗗𝗜/𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗨, 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝟴 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀 / 𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼-𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗼́𝗻 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗰-𝗠𝗲́𝘅𝗶𝗰𝗼 𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗧𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗿 𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗗𝗜/𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗨, 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝟴 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀 / 𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼-𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗼́𝗻 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗰-𝗠𝗲́𝘅𝗶𝗰𝗼 𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹. → 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗱𝗼 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘀…
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LIVECODERA- A global live coding community gathering on International Womxn’s day!A global live coding community gathering on International Womxn’s day! 24-hours streaming!! Date: March 8th, 2022 Signup here: https://livecodera.glitch.me/
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Tidal Club presents… “The Longest Night”40 hours of livestreamed, livecoded audio and visual performances to keep you warm during the Winter Solstice. “The Longest Night” extends the tradition of community…
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Taller sobre redes sociales locales y seguridad digital como procesos de cuidado individual y colectivoTalleristas: Marco Valdivia y Candy Rodríguez Fechas: 31 ago. y 01 sep. Horario: 15:00 a 18:00 hrs Registro: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPK_E-yrrSdYnQ1u4JOabTM27fySqynIKGuplXal90q_n3Kg/viewform Descripción: En este espacio a través…
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International Conference on Live Coding 2021, Valdivia, ChileICLC ZAL 2021 Evoluciones Convergentes / Convergent Evolutions International Conference on Live Coding 2021 Valdivia, Chile ZAL 15-17 Diciembre | 2021 / December 15-17 |…
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Open call for ZKM Giga-Hertz Award 2021Submission Period March 1 – June 25, 2021 Registration starts on March 1, 2021 Application deadline: June 25, 2021 (23:59 CEST) . Online Registration here!…
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Transnodal worldwide livecode stream for TOPLAP’s birthdayHuge stream coming up from 19-21st Feb 2021 , bringing together live streamed events by all these TOPLAP nodes + other loose affiliates: Cybernetic Orchestra…
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Curso de TidalCycles / TidalCycles workshop by Ofelia Negrete[English follows] Soy Ofelia Negrete y estoy dando cursos a distancia de TidalCycles (https://tidalcycles.org/). Si eres una persona interesada, llena alguno de los siguentes formularios…
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Sema: Summer Workshop in Live Coding and Machine LearningWould you like to use machine learning as part of musical live coding? Would you like to create your own live coding language? This summer…
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Open call for collaborators for the Toplap blogThe Toplap blog is currently looking for people to join its staff as volunteer collaborators. Some tasks include encouraging other people to post, providing feedback…
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fromZero online jam sessionsfromZero (weekly online Estuary jam sessions) an initiative of the Networked Imagination Laboratory at McMaster University All are welcome to join these drop-in jam sessions…
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Tonight: 2nd Yacht VR Party ToplapMX/ToplapBerlinBeginning now at 5PM/GMT(7PM/CET), a second party from TopLap-MX and TopLap-Berlin is taking place on the VR Yacht. Anyone can join with or without VR…
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DAF CATS Algorave 05/02/2020 20:00-22:00 CEST (UTC+2)Hello everyone, We are Dynamische Akustische Forschung (DAF) of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, Germany, a collective of people who are interested in…
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RGBdog (live streaming)This Saturday RGBdog is inviting 4 experimental electronic musicians working with Ableton, MaxMSP, TouchDesigner, neural networks, live coding and audio-reactive visuals. @j_s_m_ (https://www.instagram.com/_j_s_m__/) @benberkozdemir (https://www.instagram.com/benberkozdemir/)…
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Social Distancing Dance Party // Algorave!Event update: The livestream will be available at sPACYcLOUd Twitch Lounge on April 4th from 12pm-12am EST. For more information contact info@spacycloud.com Description Tatiana Kolina,…
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EulerRoom Equinox – call for streamers + organisers[EN] An equinox is a day when the whole world gets 12 hours of sunlight. The March equinox marks the beginning of autumn in the…
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TOPLAP Archive PlaylistsCheck out TOPLAP history. Below are links to playlists from TOPLAP and related streaming events. YouTube – Eulerroom Internet Archive
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Happy birthday Strudel, and hello version 1.0Strudel is two years old today 🎂 and not only that, it has at this moment hit version 1.0! Check out the blog recap (you…
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Call for hosts: International Conference on Live Coding 2025Live coding refers to the creation and modification of algorithms with a creative purpose in real time often in the presence of a physical or…
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TOPLAP on mastodon/the fediverseTOPLAP Social is a new home for live coding on mastodon, now open for signups! Mastodon is part of the fediverse, works a bit like…
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ICLC 2023 Keynote ReviewChanging the system: A commentary on Marije Baalman’s Keynote at ICLC 2023 Reviewer: Mel Laubscher Keynote address on YouTube (ICLC Streaming) 2:46:14 Marije Baalman delivered…
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ICLC 2023 Satelitte – Algorave, Lyon FR Apr 8thAlgorave April 8th – Lyon, FR Reviewer: Rémi Georges Event Organizers: Rémi Georges / Bubobubo (Raphaël Maurice Forment) On April 8th there was a big…
Read More »- ICLC Satellite Concert Review: Institute of Sonology, The Hague
Reviewer: J Simon van der Walt Concert: ICLC Satellite Event at the Institute of Sonology – MultiChannel Compositions Date: 2023-04-18 The penultimate warm-up concert before…
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ICLC 2023 is here! What does it take to organize and pull off an event like this? How does all this happen? The event has…
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Live Coding: A User’s ManualLive Coding: A User’s Manual by Alan Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean and Thor Magnusson, is a new book about the history…
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Open Call for the ICLC 2023 in Utrecht*Visit the original website for updates here: https://iclc.toplap.org/2023/ The International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC) is dedicated to practices and research focused on technologies and…
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Sema: Summer Workshop in Live Coding and Machine LearningWould you like to use machine learning as part of musical live coding? Would you like to create your own live coding language? This summer…
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Thoughts On Live Coding As A Session Musician (3 of 3)In my first post in this series, I gave the following three points as the primary motivators of my personal ideology in relation to Live…
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Thoughts On Live Coding As A Session Musician (2 Of 3)Hello again! I began writing this second post by reviewing the first in the series (https://toplap.org/thoughts-on-live-coding-as-a-session-musician-1-of-3/) and reflecting on my thoughts at that time. Half…
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New TOPLAP live coding discussion forumThe talk.lurk.org rocketchat is great, but maybe a bit too active, with tech support getting mixed up in free-flowing discussion. It can be hard to…
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Hi everyone, we are CLiC: a comunity of livecoders who share software** software as a mean to express ideas through text, as a creative process written in simple text. A medium to produce a creative collaborative…
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Thoughts on Live Coding as a Session Musician (1 of 3)Having come into the field of ‘Live Coding’ performance from a career as a session musician and an academic background in the arts, I am…
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Hydra article/interview on CDMThe awesome CDM blog has been spreading the word with posts about live coding lately (e.g. about our birthday, algorave and tidal 1.0), and the…
Read More »- 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…
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Live Coding Interviews on the Hacking Culture PodcastTwo recent (audio) interviews on the Hacking Culture podcast explore topics related to live coding: Mike Hodnick on Live Coding with TidalCycles Joanne Armitage on…
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Live coding and Electronic Literature at ELO 2018, Montréal.Within the framework of ELO 2018 and thanks to the support of the Digital Writings Laboratory TOPO, the Latin American artists Rodrigo Velasco and the…
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