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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