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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MIMIC Artist Summer WorkshopInterested in music, live coding and AI? MIMIC is a research project that implements machine learning and machine listening in a live coding environment for…
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Live coding intensive @ the Networked Imagination LaboratoryWhen: June 10-14, 2019. Where: Networked Imagination Laboratory (McMaster University, Hamilton, CA). This one week intensive in the Networked Imagination Laboratory focuses on diverse live…
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AlgoMech Festival 2019AlgoMech festival is back, 17-19th May 2019 in Sheffield UK, with a diverse programme blending algorithmic, mechanical and textile artforms. On the livecoding side we’ve…
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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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A la escucha del código fuente: Una aproximación al live coding en México.This live coding event is part of the activities of the exhibition Modos de oír: Prácticas de arte y sonido en México. The concert presents…
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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…
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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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TOPLAP mootWe’re organising a three-day live coding festival in Sheffield UK, 1st-3rd September 2018, including a ‘TOPLAP moot’. Please head over here for full info!
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Algorave – Sonic Makers Camp – La Station – Gare des Mines – 12 Juillethttps://www.facebook.com/events/184330002233024/ Algorave #2 de Paris, cette fois-ci dans le sous-sol de la gare des mines. merci au SonicLab et au Collectif Mu. Venez pour: SuperCollider…
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Festival TransPiksel MX + [ANTI]MATERIADel 12 al 15 de julio de 2018. Sitio web: https://anti-materia.org/transpiksel2018/ Sede 1: Los14 (Gabino Barreda 19, Col. San Rafael) Sede 2: Centro Cultural de…
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Live Coding @ IMPA – Rio de JaneiroThis next Wednesday, 20th of June at 13:30 there will be a live coding seminar/presentation. It will consist of a re-reading (or a rewriting) of…
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Performing Code Live [Featuring Shelly Knotts and AlgoBabez]Video of this week’s “Performing Code Live” event featuring Shelly Knotts and AlgoBabez is online at: https://youtu.be/EiNhLmYesiM Performing Code Live is presented by at UC San…
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NIME 2018 Workshop: Re-engaging the Body and Gesture in Musical Live CodingAs part of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2018) conference, we would like to invite you to the “Re-engaging the Body and Gesture…
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Algorave AssemblyThere’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…
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ALGORAVE PARIS06/04/18 – 21H A MINUIT – ALGORAVE PARIS live coded music & visuals:: ACOUSTIC DEVICES {Sound w/ TidalCycles} – http://www.acoustic-devices.cc/; stan le punk {Visual w/…
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Algorave Buenos AiresJoin us for the first official Algorave in Buenos Aires February 8th, 2018! Line-up: mauro (audio), munshkr (audio), alejo (audio), hordia (audio), pablo/alejo(prrr/fiiiu) (audio), Julian…
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Live Coding Meetings in MadridLive Code Mad is a group of livecoders based in Madrid that meet regularly at the cultural center Medialab Prado. This next Monday, 29th of…
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Live Coding meeting in Buenos AiresThis next Thursday (December 14th), will be a meeting in the Centro de Arte Sonoro de la Casa Nacional Del Bicentenario (3er Piso, Riobamba 985,…
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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 domains for TOPLAP chat and forumThe TOPLAP chat is a live and active text-based chat system with a lot of rooms for live coders and friends to talk about live…
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Toplap call for guest bloggersTOPLAP is looking for Guest writers for its August-September 2019 Issue and its forthcoming Featured Section. Send a small abstract (one paragraph or less) to…
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MIMIC Artist Summer WorkshopInterested in music, live coding and AI? MIMIC is a research project that implements machine learning and machine listening in a live coding environment for…
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Live coding intensive @ the Networked Imagination LaboratoryWhen: June 10-14, 2019. Where: Networked Imagination Laboratory (McMaster University, Hamilton, CA). This one week intensive in the Networked Imagination Laboratory focuses on diverse live…
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Live coding summer school, Sheffield UKHydra x TidalCycles x FoxDot Dates: Optional pre-session: 30th Aug, Main workshops 31st Aug-1st Sep 2019 European live coding summer school! Learn to quickly+easily make…
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AlgoMech Festival 2019AlgoMech festival is back, 17-19th May 2019 in Sheffield UK, with a diverse programme blending algorithmic, mechanical and textile artforms. On the livecoding side we’ve…
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The 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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A la escucha del código fuente: Una aproximación al live coding en México.This live coding event is part of the activities of the exhibition Modos de oír: Prácticas de arte y sonido en México. The concert presents…
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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…
Read More »- 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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Live Coding in DarmstadtLive coding workshops at the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music. Thor Magnusson will be part of a team from IRCAM delivering a workshop in…
Read More »- TOPLAP moot
We’re organising a three-day live coding festival in Sheffield UK, 1st-3rd September 2018, including a ‘TOPLAP moot’. Please head over here for full info!
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Algorave – Sonic Makers Camp – La Station – Gare des Mines – 12 Juillethttps://www.facebook.com/events/184330002233024/ Algorave #2 de Paris, cette fois-ci dans le sous-sol de la gare des mines. merci au SonicLab et au Collectif Mu. Venez pour: SuperCollider…
Read More »- Festival TransPiksel MX + [ANTI]MATERIA
Del 12 al 15 de julio de 2018. Sitio web: https://anti-materia.org/transpiksel2018/ Sede 1: Los14 (Gabino Barreda 19, Col. San Rafael) Sede 2: Centro Cultural de…
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Live Coding @ IMPA – Rio de JaneiroThis next Wednesday, 20th of June at 13:30 there will be a live coding seminar/presentation. It will consist of a re-reading (or a rewriting) of…
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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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Live coding summer school, Sheffield UKHydra x TidalCycles x FoxDot Dates: Optional pre-session: 30th Aug, Main workshops 31st Aug-1st Sep 2019 European live coding summer school! Learn to quickly+easily make…
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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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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…
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 in DarmstadtLive coding workshops at the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music. Thor Magnusson will be part of a team from IRCAM delivering a workshop in…
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AlgoMech 2017Great things coming to Sheffield 9-12, Nov 2017! There will of course be an Algorave, with a packed line-up of top live-coders mixed some mechanical…
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Source Festival May 19-21Source Festival May 19-21st Brooklyn NY Join LiveCode.NYC and IDM at NYU for 3 days of performances, discussions, workshops, and of course an algorave, all…
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Algorave 5th birthday – 24 hour streamRight now Algoravers around the world are joining up online to listen to each other over 24 hours, from midnight-midnight on the 17th March 2017 GMT. One…
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ChoreoGraphic CodingHere follows a guest post from Joana Chicau, giving some of the context behind “WebPage Act I,II,III”, her performance at the second International Conference on…
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Eulerroom stream tonightThere’s another eulerroom stream tonight, Tuesday 21st June, with live algorithmic dance music from Anny, Alexandra Cardenas and myself. Join us at http://eulerroom.com/, or if…
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Troy Algorave 0x0FAlgorave happening in Troy, NY at the Tech Valley Center of Gravity. Music, visuals, game engines, electronics and more. Leying Hu | Gibber Kelly Michael Fox | Tidal…
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Minnesota Algorave #1An Algorave is set to hit the midwest United States on April 15, 2016 at the Hopkins Depot in Hopkins, Minnesota. The lineup will include: bgold…
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2nd International Conference on Live Coding – CFPPlanning for the 2nd International Conference on Live Coding, (ICLC, pronounced ick-lick) is advancing, and the full call for papers and performances is out. ICLC…
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TOPLAP on slackWe now have a livecode slack, with over five hundred members, with quite a few actively chatting about live coding, sharing ideas, organising events and live streams.…
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Live coding open callsThe lack of activity on this blog is down to a huge influx of live coding activity rather than a lack.. Not least, the machinations…
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Breathing Code conference, 4-5th May 2015, FrankfurtBreathing Code is a new conference running in Frankfurt on the 5th May 2015, with evening event the night before. It brings together those interested in…
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Take an instruction for a walkInspired by Paul Klee’s conception of drawing as taking a line for a walk, David Littler has a nice online project “A Consequential Calendar for the Curious…
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Cambridge (UK) Live Coding Music Co-opCambridge is where Sonic PI (and indeed the Raspberry Pi) come from, and has a history of live coding research. Pam Burnard, education researcher, is…
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International Conference on Live Interfaces 2014The second edition of the biannual International Conference on Live Interfaces is taking place in Lisbon, Portugal in November 2014. This edition is titled INTER-FACE and as…
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- Live coding intensive @ the Networked Imagination Laboratory
When: June 10-14, 2019. Where: Networked Imagination Laboratory (McMaster University, Hamilton, CA). This one week intensive in the Networked Imagination Laboratory focuses on diverse live coding languages, approaches, and outcomes…
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Toplap call for guest bloggersTOPLAP is looking for Guest writers for its August-September 2019 Issue and its forthcoming Featured Section. Send a small abstract (one paragraph or less) to navarrol@mcmaster.ca by July 20, 2019.…
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