Re: [livecode] Wtf is live coding?

From: Amy Alexander <amyjalexander_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:09:34 -0800

Did someone mention "don't forget - music is an executable language" yet?
If not, then...
Don't forget, music is an executable language.

Merry Break Down Your Boxes Day in B Flat...

-Amy


On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Tristan Strange <tristan.strange_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Zoe!
>
> > I hope you don't mind my eavesdropping until I know a little bit more.
>
> I'm not bothered at all. Google and GCHQ are listening!
>
> > I'm new to this group and coding in general.
>
> I'm relatively new round here too and really should have done an
> introduction too.
>
> Live coders are much friendlier than what my OP might indicate. I'm
> just being a christmassy git to try and conversation going.
>
> If any particular LC description resonates with you I'd love to hear
> about it! Experience isn't a pre-requisite for knowing what your on
> about.
>
> Cheers,
> Tris
>
>
> On 25 December 2015 at 16:13, Zoe C Berger <zoecberger_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to this group and coding in general.
> >
> > I'm an artist using live code as artistic medium. I'm still figuring a
> lot of things out. I hope you don't mind my eavesdropping until I know a
> little bit more. It's nice to hear others views on this
> >
> > Also, merry merry , ect ...
> >
> > Zoe
> >
> >> On Dec 25, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Tristan Strange <tristan.strange_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> It warms my cockles to see people thinking about live code on
> >> Christmas day... I've been told I'm not to think about it and am
> >> sneaking this response in!
> >>
> >> Really nice to see some sentences that'll stand up to a prod or two!
> >>
> >> Even the cats definition isn't as bad as some on the list....
> >>
> >>> On 25 December 2015 at 14:00, David Griffiths <dave_at_pawfal.org> wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>> On 24/12/15 21:39, alex wrote:
> >>>> I'm going to have to bite..
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 24 December 2015 at 19:25, David Barbour <dmbarbour_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>> Live coding is using a powerful language as an HCI. This is opposed
> to
> >>>>> using application specific language (predefined forms or widgets, a
> weak
> >>>>> CLI language, etc.) that hinder flexible expression or abstraction.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think it's worth separating live coding from its application in
> >>>>> performance and music. With augmented reality, and internet of
> things, or
> >>>>> semantic webs, we could see a much wider applications.
> >>>>
> >>>> Yeah we wouldn't want to see such a passing, limited interest topic
> >>>> such as "music" seen in the same light as these three much more
> >>>> important, far sighted and serious applications! It's not as though
> >>>> music is woven into just about every human ritual or anything like
> >>>> that.
> >>>
> >>> While music may or may not be a good application of livecoding 'as a
> >>> tool' - it even might be the case that computation *is* music, and by
> >>> experiencing it's construction by a performer, we may be able to learn
> >>> something about the algorithmic world we live in.
> >>>
> >>> In a similar way, livecoding also has potential to expose clearly a
> >>> secret aspect of technology - the way it's pursued in a fumbling,
> zigzag
> >>> approach with many restarts - rather than the smooth, planned series of
> >>> 'innovations' that people who want us to invest in their companies
> would
> >>> like us to believe.
> >>>
> >>> Nice to be discussing this stuff here again :)
> >>>
> >>> cheers,
> >>>
> >>> dave
> >>>
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